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tabular_rasaSo Robert showed me this last night, and I was showing it to Tory this morning: Autotuned speeches.
Autotuning is used to correct sung/spoken pitches to a uniform perfect-pitch. It's obviously used mostly by singers to perfect recorded tracks, but especially recently it's used as a stylistic choice (like Cher's "Believe" and anything with T-Pain :-P).
However, epic things happen when you Autotune historical speeches. This is my absolute favorite, probably because MLK has such a musical voice anyway:
(I totally downloaded the mp3 they made available)
How about Churchill?
JFK's not too bad, either:
A little too much curious exploration reveals that not everything works with Autotune; Hitler, for instance, is recorded with too poor sound quality to really sound like much of anything interesting. And there's a lot of Autotuned news programs that are hit and miss, and often require a little too much tweaking/adding from the autotuners themselves for my tastes. (Though I have to admit, this clip at about 0:55 when Representative Boehner* shouts "Hell no, hell no, hell nooooo!" is pretty entertaining).
Edit (1:54 pm): Lol, so apparently there is an iTouch application called "I Am T-Pain" that is basically Autotuning. For instance: I've Got A Wii.
Autotuning is used to correct sung/spoken pitches to a uniform perfect-pitch. It's obviously used mostly by singers to perfect recorded tracks, but especially recently it's used as a stylistic choice (like Cher's "Believe" and anything with T-Pain :-P).
However, epic things happen when you Autotune historical speeches. This is my absolute favorite, probably because MLK has such a musical voice anyway:
(I totally downloaded the mp3 they made available)
How about Churchill?
JFK's not too bad, either:
A little too much curious exploration reveals that not everything works with Autotune; Hitler, for instance, is recorded with too poor sound quality to really sound like much of anything interesting. And there's a lot of Autotuned news programs that are hit and miss, and often require a little too much tweaking/adding from the autotuners themselves for my tastes. (Though I have to admit, this clip at about 0:55 when Representative Boehner* shouts "Hell no, hell no, hell nooooo!" is pretty entertaining).
*Sadly, it's pronounced "BAY-ner." Damn that German oe=ay pronunciation. No one gets it right in my name, either, but at least I don't get little titters when it happens :-P
Edit (1:54 pm): Lol, so apparently there is an iTouch application called "I Am T-Pain" that is basically Autotuning. For instance: I've Got A Wii.
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Date: 2009-12-05 06:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-05 09:07 am (UTC)I still crack up everytime at Charlie Bit Me autotuned, so unintentionally musical.
They need to do Christian Bale.
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Date: 2009-12-05 04:57 pm (UTC)What about the dentist kid? ;)
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Date: 2009-12-05 04:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-05 05:57 pm (UTC)Not sure if they've done the dentist kid, but it wouldn't surprise me.
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Date: 2009-12-05 05:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-05 08:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-06 01:22 am (UTC)Might also attempt Christian Bale
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Date: 2009-12-06 03:47 am (UTC)I love this one -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGK84Poeynk
It's all about science, but it's just...pretty.
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Date: 2009-12-06 05:38 am (UTC)You know, part of me laments that I don't have the patience for the details of science (I could never get through the memorization and mathematics it would take be to be a physicist, etc) because the big theoretical parts of the scientific field absolutely fascinate me. They get so . . . unmathematical, and spiritual.
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Date: 2009-12-06 11:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-07 07:55 pm (UTC)