Comments on: Crowdsourced Vocal Synthesis: 2000 People Singing “Daisy Bell”

By: KULTURTECHNO » Elektronische Musik fÃ¼r Chor komponieren

KULTURTECHNO » Elektronische Musik fÃ¼r Chor komponieren — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:24:48 +0000

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By: Rene

Rene — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:50:50 +0000

Jeez, too much spare time in your hands results into that.

By: JOn

JOn — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:42:42 +0000

Sounds like someone was trying to flex their geek muscle.

Sounded garbled and eh.

At least the one from the olden days sounded musical.

By: Damon

Damon — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 23:08:10 +0000

That was funny…

By: r3voltion

r3voltion — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:56:55 +0000

I am a capitalist and here to improve the earth. Think of where all our wonderful toys and innovations come from.

By: DaNni

DaNni — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 06:11:26 +0000

12 monkeys anyone?

By: Damon

Damon — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:37:08 +0000

The Kenton IBM 704 Mainframe to Midi Retrofit should be available by the time you read this. You save 25% if you purchase it in kit form.

By: foosnark

foosnark — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:16:05 +0000

I had no idea the song was called “Daisy Bell” rather than just “Daisy” or “Bicycle Built For Two.” Huh.

By: Qbical

Qbical — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:00:50 +0000

Cool, sounds like the Borg from Star Trek are singing the tune :)

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:39:39 +0000

Wow, Jacob, that’s great.

I’m actually a little unclear on the history. This is Max’s arrangement, of course, but what Max’s contribution was to the software I don’t know. I gather it was John Larry Kelly’s work, but it may have been indebted to some of Max’s 704 code, too.

I also don’t know if this was the first digital vocal synthesis; I believe it was.

Humans imitating it, of course, becomes something else altogether.