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DJ/Rupture article on Autotune

DJ/Rupture,who has done some interesting shit, writes about Auto-Tune.

Here's a quote:

A few months ago I heard a song from the Côte d’Ivoire. Twelve minutes long, Champion DJ’s ‘Baako’ is built around a baby crying through Auto-Tune. The software bends the baby’s anguish into eerie musicality. The ear likes it. The mind isn’t so sure. ‘Baako’ is disturbing. The aestheticized cry no longer corresponds to any normal emotion. Before Auto-Tune, we had no melodious screams.

..and you can hear the autotuned-baby here ('Baako' is track 4).

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Permalink Reply by Michael Pulsford on May 3, 2009 at 9:35am: Auto-Tune in Algerian pop:; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Que Nguyen on May 3, 2009 at 4:38pm: It makes me think of Cher.. unnatural and digital, esp the baby...so we are in vocoder territory. There is no emotional attachment to the baby because of the overt digital processing. The 'subtle' use of auto tune distinguishes why Brittany sounds awful live.. Some one here posted a video on ning showing only the LIVE vox input in from her mic.. gee that was dreadful.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by melody on May 4, 2009 at 11:03am: does autotune make it harder to lip sync? Looks like it.

Que Nguyen said:
It makes me think of Cher.. unnatural and digital, esp the baby...so we are in vocoder territory. There is no emotional attachment to the baby because of the overt digital processing. The 'subtle' use of auto tune distinguishes why Brittany sounds awful live.. Some one here posted a video on ning showing only the LIVE vox input in from her mic.. gee that was dreadful.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Michael Pulsford on May 4, 2009 at 11:49am: But what did you think of the article? The cyborg argument etc?

Auto Tuning from Casey Donahue on Vimeo.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Sasha on May 4, 2009 at 3:11pm: Good audio article on autotune here. And it's by another dude called Sasha:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/2008/06/09/080609on_audio_frerejones; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Que Nguyen on May 6, 2009 at 9:58pm: Sorry Mike.. Couldn't get to the link for the article some reason.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Michael Pulsford on May 7, 2009 at 9:43am: http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/pitch_perfect/

Que Nguyen said:
Sorry Mike.. Couldn't get to the link for the article some reason.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Chris Vik on May 16, 2009 at 3:20am: perhaps this? (awesome @ 1.20); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Michael Pulsford on May 16, 2009 at 7:20am: ▶ Reply to This

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