this was one of the earliest Vocaloid songs ever 'created'. I still remember that amazed fascination I felt, watching "robots" sing so well...
heres some others- 'Miriam' vocaloid songs
Vocaloid MIRIAM Demos:MIRIAM Demo: "Never Give Up".
(NOTE: All vocals on this demo are sung by Vocaloid MIRIAM). Composed, Programmed and Produced by Andy Power.
MIRIAM Demo: "Is This It?".
(NOTE: All vocals on this demo are sung by Vocaloid MIRIAM). Composed, Programmed and Produced by Anders Sodergren.
MIRIAM Demo: "Under The Moon".
(NOTE: All vocals on this demo are sung by Vocaloid MIRIAM). Composed, Programmed and Produced by Anders Sodergren.
but these are the ones I rea-aly like... scatt'n away
LEON+LOLA Demo: "Dupdah".
(NOTE - All vocals on this demo are by either Vocaloid LOLA or Vocaloid LEON). A humorous piece featuring a kind of non-verbal "scatting", featuring LOLA and LEON singing together. This one illustrates Vocaloid's freedom! You can use any sounds a human could utter, and more! As you can see, rhythmically, harmonically, and melodically speaking, the sky's the limit! Written, programmed and produced by Anders Sodergren.
LEON+LOLA Demo: "Freaky Sheep".
(NOTE - All vocals on this demo are by either Vocaloid LOLA or Vocaloid LEON). An abstract avant garde piece of rhythmic vocal sculpture (or to put it another way, weird) that illustrates how easy it is to explore new sonic territory with Vocaloid. Written, programmed and produced by Joe Hogan. Who did Joe get to sing what? Basically its 50/50 between the two singers. The harmonised stereo delay arpeggio type thing at the start is LOLA on the left and LEON on the right. The offbeat "sha" that comes in is both singers, again panned left and right. The "sar" bassline is Lola (way below her natural range!). The "ah, ah, ah, ah, ah" 4-part block chords figure contains two of each singer. The really high pitched tune that comes in at 0:24s is LEON (way above his range!). The whispered "taka-taka" thing that can be heard clearly at 0:33s is LEON, and that kind of bassy pitched kick-drum type sound that happens at the same time is also LEON. Switching between singers during a sequence is easy with Vocaloid.
more here
28.4.10
robot song sings scatt
24.4.10
fantastic outsider from NZ Rotate the Completer
Some nice anonymous person just left me a link to Rotate the Completer's Music Space
here's some wonderful stuff about him... go listen to his stuff... song 10 is delish it makes my heart sing
quote from his site...'I do hope you are not scratching your heads in wonder and asking yourselves ‘Who is this Rotate the Completor?’ right now because it’s obvious isn’t it?....................... After all, he made it very clear in the lyrics of his album ‘Rotate the Completors: Completed Rotations of the….’ that he is the “…man with a Cabbage and an Antelope, a Cantaloupe who tried to steal (his) beer” and also that he has “…the biggest bunch of Salmon eating people that (he) calls his friends.” Not to mention the fact that he doesn’t “have 15 million friends or legs and that’s ok with (him)” or that he “just want(s) to be a house on the hillside.” ...................... Yeah, that Rotate the Completor!!! So you understand who he is now? ….Oh, you don’t? Well, to be honest neither do I really......................... RTC first appeared on the deserted back streets of inner city Tauranga, New Zealand as a geographically challenged busker in late December of 2008. However his foray into the world of busking was a brief one and he was not heard from again until September of 2009 when an audio cassette began to circulate among outsider music fans entitled; the aforementioned ‘Rotate the Completors: Completed Rotations of the….’. Reactions to the contents of this album have varied greatly, but while the mixture of negative and positive reviews have thus far been pretty even, all first time listeners can at least agree on one thing – it’s different and that’s for damn sure!!!....................... So could you be a potential RTC fan? Well that depends… Do you detest production values? Have a thing for silly voices? Especially when it’s obvious that they have only been affected in order to disguise a massive inability to sing in key? Like warped Guitars? Out of time drums? Like them even better when they are played at the same time? You do? Then you may also like your music started, stopped, sped up, slowed down, thrown around and shaken about? How about an eclectic mix of bluegrass, blues, carnival music, jazz, rock n’ roll, prog, folk and acid rock somehow mashed and blended together? Lyrics about personified Apples, Sea Monkeys, albino Hedgehogs, who also just happen to be deceased and an alcoholic mouse who can’t afford to buy his own drinks? Do you like you album artwork to feature these same characters and to have them drawn by someone with the artistic mindset of an 8 year old? Really,you dig? Well you just might make it as an RTC fan after all......................... So at this point if you have answered yes to any of the above questions you may be intrigued and longing to hear RTC for yourself, so scroll your way on up to the media player here at www.myspace.com/rotatethecompletorfanpage to stream and hear a few songs sampled from ‘RTC’s:Completed Rotations of the…’ . But before you do, there are some rules which Rotate the Completor wishes for you to adhere to................................ As per the inlay card of ‘Rotate the Completors: Completed Rotations of the…’:............................... 1.) Listen alone. 2.) Listen with head phones on. 3.) Listen only at night. 4.) Only permissible foods to be eaten when listening to ‘R.T.C’s: C.R of the…’ ;cruciferous vegetables, members of the allium genus......................... If you like these and the additional RTC information found in the blogs section then your next option is to contact Rotate the Completor at PO Box 2000, Tauranga, New Zealand but be aware thus far RTC has not responded to personal letters, nor has he sold his album for any monetary value, in fact the only way to receive this classic, five star, album is to send a stamped, self addressed envelope with a blank 90 minute audio cassette inside. Generally after 2-3 weeks you will receive your return package but now with a full album recorded on to it, along with one or two other pleasant surprises in most cases............................. And don’t expect to make a friend out of your new hero nor expect him to come to your home town playing sold out live shows any time soon because either due to misanthropy, introversion, mental illness, a good sense of mystery, laziness, lack of self confidence or a combination of all of the above he has made very little effort to self promote his work. In fact the majority of all publicity for RTC has been generated by rabid fans desperate to get exposure for him so that he may get over his personal issues and step forth to take his mantle as New Zealands greatest musician.......................... So now that you’ve heard it? What did you think? You loved it? Of course you did….so run along now and spread the word. Rotate the Completor is the new sheriff in town........................... '
19.4.10
My Ubiquitous Body- angel voices
The video of the Istallation "My Ubiquitous Body":
And another ...
Angel_F is a digital being whose body is built from the language formed by the interconnection of the expressions of thousands of internet users and websites. The AI behind Angel_ constantly reads thousands of sources among blogs, websites and social network feeds, assembling language through pattern recognition schemes, thus learning its digital language by observing recurring patterns in the languages used by humans on the net.
The projection shows a dynamic ever changing voyage inside the mind of the Artificial intelligence. Sentences are generated by traversing the linguistic graph created by the AI during its three years of life by browsing the web pages of thousands of internet users worldwide and on social networks. Sentences are pronounced in voice synthesis and the sound is generated according to the an evaluation algorithm deciding the “interestingness” of the sentences according to the AI’s point of view.
More info about the installation at this link
Angel-F Team
http://www.facebook.com/l/7689b;www.angel-f.it
http://www.facebook.com/l/7689b;www.artisopensource.net
http://www.facebook.com/l/7689b;www.nodefest.net/
3.4.10
scores- Iannis Xenakis
Great article from Art Critical:
Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary at the Drawing Center
quote ... 'If writing about music is like dancing about architecture, consider the remarkable resemblance some musical scores bear to architectural drawings. The quintessential example of this phenomenon is composer Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001), whose complex ideas sprouted from a natural love of architecture and mathematics. In a tightly constructed show now at the Drawing Center curators Sharon Kanach and Carey Lovelace have created a heady glimpse of the visual side of Xenakis, the composer who worked for Le Corbusier'.
30.3.10
Girrrls and drag
Been thinking alot lately about drag and the applied (with a trowel) 'subjectivity of the feminine' by male drag queens.. gs its because I've been watching Ru Pauls Drag show on foxtell instead of doing phd.
good article here
DRAG ARTISTS & PERFORMERS CREATIVITY THRU TRANSGENDERIS
Female Drag Queens by Frederike De Jonge
Interview with Raven Snook, Female Drag Queen
To me drag is not gender-bound it is a state of mind. I have met several women (born gender female that is!) who are, in my terms, a drag queen, (including myself). Some male "drag queens" say women do no thave enough drama or glamour to be drag queens. I say - what abt the women so many drag queens impersonate? A few names come to mind: Diana Ross, Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, Marilyn Monroe, Bette Midler, Cher, Joanna Lumley, Madonna to name but a few.
During my last visit to New York I met up with Raven Snook ("Designated Diva" drag performer) and Andy Freeze (make-up artist & self-proclaimed drag terrorist) for a photoshoot and some chit chat on the essence of drag.
Frederike: What makes Ravens "Designated Diva" a Drag Queen?
Andy: Raven has always been a girl with a little bit of flair....
27.3.10
feminist blogroll
Blogroll
* A Collage of Citations
* Abyss 2 Hope
* Against Rape
* All About My Vagina
* And Another Thing
* Arab Woman Progressive Voice
* Arbitrary Marks
* Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice
* Atoms Arranged
* Bangladesh From Our View
* Barbara Ehrenreich’s Blog
* Bideshi Blue
* Bitch PhD
* Bite-Sized Subversions
* Black Looks
* Blogging For America
* Border Thinking
* Broadsheet
* Carnival of Feminists
* Certain Doubts
* Collegium of Black Women Philosophers
* Condomologist
* Conservatory Girl
* Crooked Timber
* crooked timber
* Cruella Blog
* Diary of an Anxious Black Woman
* diversity@spp
* Dolly Mix
* Echidne of the Snakes
* Engage: Conversations in Philosophy
* Engender
* Experimental Philosophy
* F Watch
* F-Words
* Female Science Professor
* Feminist Aesthetics
* Feminist Allies
* Feminist Law Professors
* Feminist Mormon Housewives
* Feminist Response in Disability Activisim
* Feministe
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* Florida Philosophy Student Blog
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* Knowledge and Experience
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* Objectify This
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* Packaging Girlhood
* Pandagon
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* PennyRed
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* Philosophy, Etc
* Pinko Feminist Hellcat
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* Racialicious
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* Sex In The Public Square
* SGRP The Blog
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* SM Feminists
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* Text and the world
* The Brooks Blog
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* The F Word
* This is what a feminist blogs like
* Thought, Interrupted By Typos
* Thoughts Arguments and Rants
* Thus Spake Zuska
* Ultra Violet
* Unapologetically Female
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* Viva La Feminista
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* What Sorts of People
* Women Count
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* XY
25.3.10
Metaphysics of Sound by Lee Hangjun(Flims)/Hong Chulki(Turnt
Excerpt from the DVD "Expanded Celluloid, Extended Phonograph" (Balloon and Needle, 2008)
by Lee Hangjun (Experimental Filmmaker) and Hong Chulki (Noise Improviser) from South Korea
Advance Praise for ECEP
It is in the spirit of an experience and experiment that Hang Jun Lee's "The Cracked Share" must be viewed. Seized in moments of visual detachment during periods of emotional contact, these images are oxidized residues of fixed light and chemical elements of transformed from living organisms. No plastic expression can ever be more than a residue of the experience and yet, the residue is the recognition of the experience, loss permeates the work and yet somehow the experience endures, recalling the event more or less clearly, like the undisturbed ashes of an object consumed by flames. The recognition of this object, so little representative and so fragile, speaks to us of this artist's isolation. "The Cracked Share" is quite wonderfully dense and visceral in nature ... it looks as though the work has been doubly manipulated organically and digitally, yet the work still retain its organic nature through its alchemical orientation...the sense of visual rhythm is well paced and the appropriated footage of the Astronauts / Pornographic actor /Horse in "The Cracked Share" is wonderfully imaginative and fluid...an ocular alkahest"
Carl E. Brown
I have been waiting for more than 20 years for those who create music and video just like Lee Hangjun and Hong Chulki. Sound and video are eventually mere data. It is impossible for me to believe in the piece of music or the visual work if it doesn't start from this harsh reality because the problem lies in its start. Accordingly, Lee Hangjun and Hong Chulki's work exposes this starting point as it is. They confront and challenge the problem at this point of departure in audio and video.
Otomo Yoshihide
24.3.10
The Good Questions- Professor What If... get your feminism here
Great blog Professor What If... finally good questions Click Here
"The purpose of theory...is not to provide a pat set of answers about what to do, but to guide us in sorting out options, and to keep us out of the 'any action/no action' bind. Theory...keeps us aware of the questions that need to be asked." --Charlotte Bunch
23.3.10
sound jokes unsound - more posibilities
How many soundies does it take to change a light bulb?
1..2..3..1..2..3
Rumpus call for more Funny women found via She Writes
I just joined She Writes ... and their Funny Woman 'room' and theres a link there to Rumpus.net and an article 'Women writing on McSweeny's site ... its a good list click here to read the whole lot ... the idea is to encouraging women to submit more humor to publishers!! do it gals
heres an extract...
“Why are men, taken on average and as a whole, funnier than women?” inquired Christopher Hitchens in “Why Women Aren’t Funny,” Vanity Fair, January 2007.
That’s a good question. And by that I mean, fuck you.
Since women are so hilarious all the time/everywhere (see: Margaret Cho, Janeane Garofalo, Starlee Kine, Katie Crouch, Kristen Schaal, etc.), I’d like to feature the women of McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, who are reliably hysterical, clever, and concise. Below is what I consider the best of what women have written for the site since the beginning of 2008.
My measures of judgment:
- A vagina. It’s not that I’m sexist, but sometimes it’s important to fight sexism with sexism.
- Timelessness. I can’t read another joke about the econolypse; everyone being poor and homeless just isn’t funny anymore, and it won’t be funny (or ironic in a good way) in ten years when everyone is rich and arrogant again. Further, I don’t care for faux math.
- Utilization of nontraditional narrative and syntactical deviations.
- Universal applicability. You were crapped on [in some way]? I was crapped on [in same way]!
- Discussion of men being emotionally AWOL.
- References to literature’s antiquity, David Lynch, The Wire, and sex phobias.
Other criteria:
- I laughed aloud.
- I was in some way offended.
- The term “manorexic” was used.
The list (out of hundreds and in no particular order):
22.3.10
17.3.10
(INSIDE ALICE'S FACETS) Figuring the Unstable World of Perceptual Meaning (meanings and unmeanings) ...in the word of a lit up face by majena mafe
extract ...'Outer-side the curled lip of reason, where the strait line of order slips, and falters, lisps and
stutters, and where causes pause, there exists multitudes of un-reasons muttering … twitching,
switching, bitching, forming foaming fallows as reason-ettes unformed meanings tunnelled as
off the more slight. These facet the sights of might bright assets deport’n themselves in infinite
play...'
a good read ... click here for more published at Bukker Tillibul
Bukker Tillibul Online Journal of Writing and Practice-led Research click here
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