[NewMusic] Auto-Tuned News

[kristin miltner]

> Dumb video, yes, but creative, and quite a bit of work, I might
add...those people were not just talking in time by accident...

I didn't think this video was dumb at all! I thought it was really clever.
For me, listening to Katie Couric talking about global warming through
excessive auto-tune, by putting that artificial and robotic melodic (melody
is an attempt by our species to organize our chaotic world) sheen on that
scary subject matter, even though it was punctuated by the
artist-commentator being funny, turned out to be pretty haunting for a
minute there.  I found that moment amazingly beautiful.
It had a lot of different counteractive layers: Funny, scary, pretty,
silly...and it's also a pretty solid pop tune he wrote.

k


On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Ron Lettuce <letucepry at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Wait...now is this the same "Auto-Tune" that has been described as being
> used to correct pop singers off key singing? much like the Air-brushed
> supermodels in Vogue?
> If so, I don't see it...I would GUARANTEE that there is a much more subtle
> sort, I mean cause this just sounds like a vocoder to me...and would
> certainly not make anyone believe (pun not intended...in life after love
> after love after love...) that someone was actually singing in key...Dumb
> video, yes, but creative, and quite a bit of work, I might add...those
> people were not just talking in time by accident...
>
> lettuce
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: andrew wilshusen <liberatednsf at yahoo.com>
> To: Bay Area New Music Discussion Group <newmusic at music.mills.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2009 8:17:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [NewMusic] Auto-Tuned News
>
>
> my hope is that auto-tune abuse goes the way of the vocoder.
>  andrew
>
>
> http://oudevoida.blogspot.com
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Travis Johns <electric.tokyo at gmail.com>
> To: Bay Area New Music Discussion Group <newmusic at music.mills.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2009 7:02:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [NewMusic] Auto-Tuned News
>
> and now for the conversation-oriented new music-eqsue question to be
> tossed out to the masses at large:
>
> Auto-tune: artistic merit? or the latest in a continual siege of
> pitch-adjusted video novelties to be heaped upon the masses as
> everyone embraces the least-common-denominator and does their utmost
> to imitate... t-pain? which, all said and done isn't really all that
> hard, considering that the "t-pain effect" is essentially the demo
> preset of the program...
>
> obviously, this reporter is fairly biased. but regardless, any other
> opinions on creative applications of the software? or shall we just
> move onto another funny video about, oh, lets see... swimming cats? oh
> wait, here's one now!
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?vtu6fVdAFGSI&featurerelated
>
> ...long live local news banter.
>
> t.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:12 AM, kristin miltner <miltnerunit at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > HAHA this is so excellent. things DO sound better with autotune.
> >
> > k
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Gino Robair <gino at rastascan.com> wrote:
> >
> >> It only improves it....
> >> http://www.liveleak.com/view?i?b_1240533565
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