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Florian Heesch Voicing the Technological Body Some Musicological Reflections on Combinations of Voice and Technology in Popular Music ABSTRACT The article deals with interrelations of voice, body and technology in popular music from a musicological perspective. It is an attempt to outline a systematic approach to the history of music technology with regard to aesthetic aspects, taking the iden- tity of the singing subject as a main point of departure for a hermeneutic reading of popular song. Although the argumentation is based largely on musicological research, it is also inspired by the notion of presentness as developed by theologian and media scholar Walter Ong. The variety of the relationships between voice, body, and technology with regard to musical representations of identity, in particular gender and race, is systematized alongside the following cagories: (1) the “absence of the body,” that starts with the establishment of phonography; (2) “amplified presence,” as a signifier for uses of the microphone to enhance low sounds in certain manners; and (3) “hybridity,” including vocal identities that blend human body sounds and technological processing, where- by special focus is laid on uses of the vocoder and similar technologies. KEYWORDS recorded popular song, gender in music, hybrid identities, race in music, presence/ absence, disembodied voices BIOGRAPHY Dr. Florian Heesch is professor of popular music and gender studies at the University of Siegen, Germany. He holds a PhD in musicology from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He published several books and articles on music and Norse mythology, mu- sic and gender and on diverse aspects of heavy metal studies. -
In the Studio: the Role of Recording Techniques in Rock Music (2006)
21 In the Studio: The Role of Recording Techniques in Rock Music (2006) John Covach I want this record to be perfect. Meticulously perfect. Steely Dan-perfect. -Dave Grohl, commencing work on the Foo Fighters 2002 record One by One When we speak of popular music, we should speak not of songs but rather; of recordings, which are created in the studio by musicians, engineers and producers who aim not only to capture good performances, but more, to create aesthetic objects. (Zak 200 I, xvi-xvii) In this "interlude" Jon Covach, Professor of Music at the Eastman School of Music, provides a clear introduction to the basic elements of recorded sound: ambience, which includes reverb and echo; equalization; and stereo placement He also describes a particularly useful means of visualizing and analyzing recordings. The student might begin by becoming sensitive to the three dimensions of height (frequency range), width (stereo placement) and depth (ambience), and from there go on to con sider other special effects. One way to analyze the music, then, is to work backward from the final product, to listen carefully and imagine how it was created by the engineer and producer. To illustrate this process, Covach provides analyses .of two songs created by famous producers in different eras: Steely Dan's "Josie" and Phil Spector's "Da Doo Ron Ron:' Records, tapes, and CDs are central to the history of rock music, and since the mid 1990s, digital downloading and file sharing have also become significant factors in how music gets from the artists to listeners. Live performance is also important, and some groups-such as the Grateful Dead, the Allman Brothers Band, and more recently Phish and Widespread Panic-have been more oriented toward performances that change from night to night than with authoritative versions of tunes that are produced in a recording studio. -
Robotic Voice Effects
Robotic voice effects From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotic_voice_effects "Robot voices" became a recurring element in popular music starting in the late twentieth century, and several methods of producing variations on this effect have arisen. Though the vocoder is by far the best-known, the following other pieces of music technology are often confused with it: Sonovox This was an early version of the talk box used to create the voice of the piano in the Sparky's Magic Piano series from 1947. It was used as the voice of many musical instruments in Rusty in Orchestraville. It was used as the voice of Casey the Train in Dumbo and The Reluctant Dragon[citation needed]. Radio jingle companies PAMS and JAM Creative Productions also used the sonovox in many stations ID's they produced. Talk box The talk box guitar effect was invented by Doug Forbes and popularized by Peter Frampton. In the talk box effect, amplified sound is actually fed via a tube into the performer's mouth and is then shaped by the performer's lip, tongue, and mouth movements before being picked up by a microphone. In contrast, the vocoder effect is produced entirely electronically. The background riff from "Livin' on a Prayer" by Bon Jovi is a well-known example. "California Love" by 2Pac and Roger Troutman is a more recent recording featuring a talk box fed with a synthesizer instead of guitar. Steven Drozd of the The Flaming Lips used the talk box on parts of the groups eleventh album, At War with the Mystics, to imitate some of Wayne Coyne's repeated lyrics in the "Yeah Yeah Yeah Song". -
Modify Your Wah Pedal by James Haskin on June 2, 2008
Home Sign Up! Browse Community Submit All Art Craft Food Games Green Home Kids Life Music Offbeat Outdoors Pets Photo Ride Science Tech Modify Your Wah Pedal by James Haskin on June 2, 2008 Table of Contents Modify Your Wah Pedal . 1 Intro: Modify Your Wah Pedal . 2 Step 1: Research . 2 Step 2: True Bypass . 4 Step 3: Volume Boost . 7 Step 4: Wah-Volume Pedal . 8 Step 5: Vocal . 9 Step 6: Midrange . 10 Related Instructables . 11 Comments . 11 http://www.instructables.com/id/Modify-Your-Wah-Pedal/ Author:James Haskin author's website [email protected] Intro: Modify Your Wah Pedal After making my talk box I started surfing the web for other guitar related things I could do myself. I found loads of info on the Dunlop GCB-95 wah pedal. This Instructable will walk you through all of the modifications I made to my wah pedal... *True Bypass Mod *Volume Boost Mod *Wah-Volume Pedal Mod *Vocal Mod *Midrange Mod After having completed all of these mod and a few others I recommend doing them one at a time and testing in between mods so if you don't like something, you can easily reverse it. Your gonna need some basic soldering tools... -good soldering iron (mines a Weller WESD51D I got for christmas) -solder -wire cutter/stripper -helping hand (a must!!) also the to wire anything to the board itself you will need 24AWG wire Image Notes 1. Stole for my DS-1 I'm working on when I finish THAT instructable I'll change this to a funk colored chicken head knob :] Step 1: Research I think this is a big step in all of my projects. -
M Audio Black Box Manual
Reloaded: with updated firmware and additional features. User Guide English Table Of Contents English . 3 Hello From Roger Linn . 3 Introduction . 3 What’s in the Box . 4 Minimum Computer System Requirements . 4 New Version 2 Firmware Inside . 4 Front Panel Connectors . 5 Rear Panel Connectors . 5 Top Panel . 6 Presets and Drumbeats . 8 Editing the Guitar Amp and Compression Settings . 9 Amp Descriptions . .10 Editing the Modulation and Filter Effects . .15 Modulation and Filter Effect Descriptions . .16 Editing the Delay and Reverb . 20 Editing the Utilities . 22 Assigning Momentary Foot Switch Pedal Settings . 25 Accessing the Shift Parameters . 26 Tuner Function . 27 How to Store and Name a Preset . 27 Initializing Black Box to Factory Settings . 27 Connecting your Hardware to the Computer . 28 Using the Black Box with the Computer . 29 Driver Installation . 30 Windows XP (SP2) . 30 Mac OS X . 32 Control Panels . 37 Effects & MIDI Page . 37 Latency Page (Windows Only) . 37 Presets & Firmware Page . 38 About Page . 39 Recording with a DAW (digital audio workstation) . 40 Troubleshooting . .41 Warranty . 42 Specifications . 43 MIDI Implementation Charts . 44 Channel Mode, System Common and System Real Time Messages . 44 Universal System Exclusive Messages . 46 System Exclusive Messages . 47 Data Structures . 53 7-Bit Data Packing . 55 © 2006 Avid Technology, Inc. All rights reserved. Product features, specifications, system requirements and availability are subject to change without notice. Avid, M-Audio and Black Box are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Avid Technology, Inc. All other trademarks contained herein are the property of their respective owners. IMPORTANT! Audio equipment should ALWAYS be powered up and down in a certain order. -
The Fender 5G8 Twin-Amp
Mountainview Publishing, LLC INSIDE the Are you making it as a guitarist? It ain’t up to “them” – it’s up to you… Why great chops, all the The Player’s Guide to Ultimate Tone TM gear, a solid resumé, cool $10.00 US, September 2005/VOL.6 NO.11 Report songs & a great recording still may not get you noticed in the music biz today… Johnny A The Johnny A Interview “When you strum a guitar you have everything – rhythm, bass, lead and melody.” 9 – David Gilmore Is this love or confusion? The Marshall 30th Of all the guitars you have ever owned, has one seemed to suit you more than all the others? Did Anniversary Amp – you keep it, or has your memory of perfection only deepened with every guitar that failed to blue, brass-plated, 3 measure up to the one that got away? channels, and why it’s the only amp in Johnny A’s rig… Marshall’s Nick Bowcott on the 30th Anniversary 11 Review… Gibson’s Johnny A Signature Guitar This one does it all 13 The Gibson ‘57 Classic humbucking pickup with original designer J.T. Ribiloff 14 Review… The new Eric Johnson Signature Stratocaster… Long time coming, affordable, and the pickups rock… 16 Most of us have been guilty of letting great guitars go due to a temporary cash crunch or the The mythical low-power fever that clouds rational judgment when we impulsively sell an instrument to acquire the next brown Twin Part III… one. How many players traded a vintage goldtop, ‘59 burst or ‘50s Strat or Telecaster for an acrylic Why it never existed and Dan Armstrong, Kustom tuck n’ roll PA gear for the band, a Sunn head, or simply for the sake of how to build your own! change? www.tonequest.com cover story Consider the fickle, shifting fads that have alternately placed nothing, on-again-off-again stops and starts typical of the various Fender, Gretsch, Gibson and Martin guitars among rock music scene in the ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s. -
Report Germany
Mountainview Publishing, LLC INSIDE the Imagine This… Phil Brown returns with a new studio recording spanning 5 years The Player’s Guide to Ultimate Tone in La La Land, Texas, TM Colorado, New Mexico and $10.00 US, September 2011/VOL.12 NO.11 Report Germany Brown sounds… the Ampeg VL-1002, Imagine This vintage Marshall 8x10 cabs, the Hiwatt, “If you want to change your life, change your mind.” – Phil Brown Squire 7-string, Strats with Lollar Specials, The title of this edition of the Quest is also the title of Phil Brown’s latest recording, and since Jeff Beck signature, Phil has provided the featured cover story for our September visit, borrowing his title kinda makes the Black Mesa, sense. There is just one little problem… Having free-fallen into the midst of Brown’s latest one Clements, Les Paul Studio, hour and ten minute opus la Lee Jackson chitarra now for a few weeks Atomsmasher, at appropriately high decibel Line 6 DL-4, levels, we’re not at all sure Electro-Harmonix that you can indeed ‘imagine Micro-Pog, this.’ Nah, we’re being too Hermida Distortion, kind at the expense of hon- the BoneSqueeze, & esty. You can’t. Not yet, any- the Roland VS-880 way. Our job is to shake you loose from the somnambu- 9 lant torpor of late summer, Lee Jackson on an unfortunate by-product designing Ampeg amps of eeking out a livable living and the resurrection of the Atomsmasher in the USA while perhaps snatching a week or two off. Atomsmasher review Livin’ in the USA… It didn’t used to feel quite so hard, 10 did it? How did Sting put it? Red Plate Amps with Too much information… founder Henry Heistand 14 We like to believe that we Our review of the Tweedy thrive on multi-tasking and Verb being perpetually connected, and Black Verb but we really don’t, because when we are connected, we 15 really aren’t. -
Alex Bowers Math 5 Professor Barnett 05/30/07 The
Alex Bowers Math 5 Professor Barnett 05/30/07 The Talk Box I suppose I’ve always been interested in the talk box, a device which enables an individual to impose phonetic sounds on the signal from a musical instrument, such as a guitar or keyboard. Whenever I hear Peter Frampton’s “Do You Feel like We Do” on any number of generic classic rock radio stations, I always think to myself, “hey, that’s pretty cool. I wonder how he does that,” and then briefly daydream about someday being able to talk like a robot myself. Well, those daydreams have become a reality as I have recently completed the construction of my own talk box, and while I may still be a rather mumbling robot (I’ve only been practicing for a couple days), I still feel pretty cool, albeit in a gimmicky-Peter-Frampton-esque sort of way. I think, however, that my aspirations to become a talk box master are more inspired by Stevie Wonder, another music legend to use the talk box, as my primary musical instrument is the piano, and my guitar skills are mediocre at best. But, thus is the great versatility of the talk box. It can be used with just about any musical instrument that produces an electric signal to create an astoundingly vast array of tonal effects for such a device of its simplicity. The talk box is a surprisingly simple device (even I was able to build one). It operates on the same basic premise of human speech, only instead of the sound originating in one’s vocal cords, it originates from the musical instrument and is sent through an amplifier, into a speaker and through a length of tubing into the mouth, thereby allowing the musician to manipulate the original instrument signal by altering the shape of the mouth. -
Report Hamer
Mountainview Publishing, LLC INSIDE the The Jol Dantzig Interview... Hamer’s co- The Player’s Guide to Ultimate Tone TM founder talks $10.00 US, December 2004/VOL.6 NO.2 Report about launching the original ‘con- temporary vin- tage guitars,’ the Hamer lure of the sight- gag design, & “Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, why building gui- have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order tars the hard way not to be separated from man.” —Andrés Segovia still matters. During the past 30 years, the history of guitar design has been meticulously documented down to the variances found in pickguard screws and peghead pitch by a gaggle of giddy guitar enthusiast-authors around the world. It seems as if 13 nothing has escaped their scrutiny, while the Internet has provided a forum to Hamer USA further discuss, explore, debate and speculate on the stylistic nuances of the Guitar Reviews! most popular musical instrument of our time. The Monaco But many inspiring stories remain untold in the guitar industry – stories of com- Elite, Monaco III panies that have remained true to their founding principles of quality, innovative & Phantom design and old world craftsmanship, even when economic conditions have Custom... placed such values in peril and compelled others to abandon quality for the bot- tom line. Jol Dantzig and Paul Hamer launched Hamer Guitars in 1975 as a survival 17 strategy to supplement their income as musicians, collectors and used gui- Jason Lollar... tar dealers. In the process, they produced instruments clearly the truth about superior to those made by the very companies that had inspired them. -
The Electric Guitar: an Augmented Instrument and a Tool for Musical Composition
journal of interdisciplinary music studies fall 2010, volume 4, issue 2, art. #10040203, pp. 37-54 The Electric Guitar: An Augmented Instrument and a Tool for Musical Composition Otso Lähdeoja1, Benoît Navarret1,2, Santiago Quintans1,3 and Anne Sedes1 1 CICM, Université Paris 8 Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Paris-Nord 2 Équipe LAM, IJLRA, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, CNRS 3 Conservatoire à Rayonnement Départemental de la Ville du Mans Background in organology. The electrification of the guitar is probably the most important modification the instrument has undergone in the twentieth century (Séguret, 1997). It gave birth to a hybrid instrument integrating an acoustic sound source, electromagnetic pickups, amplification, as well as analog and digital signal processing. The electric guitar has been a precursor of technological innovation in music (Garfoot, 2006). Nowadays, it can be considered as an augmented instrument, defined as a network of sound production and processing units, spatially extended and configurable by the player according to the desired sonic results. Background in composition. The electric guitar is a key instrument of the musical and cultural evolutions of the past sixty years. Its vigorous development was initially fuelled by its use in popular music. Subsequently, the electric guitar's use has extended to other repertoires, making its way into the contemporary music instrumentarium and as a tool of sonic avant-garde (Bennet & Dawe, 2001). The early phase of the electric guitar's integration to the contemporary orchestra was marked by the stylistic heritage of rock and jazz genres. Today, in the context of contemporary creation, the electric guitar has gained its own sonic and aesthetic signature, fully integrating a network as a module, a source for sound processing and an interface converging with digital programming and composing tools for live electronic such as Max/MSP (Quintans, 2010). -
The Roots Report: Peter Frampton at Twin River
The Roots Report: Peter Frampton at Twin River Okee dokee folks … The other night I had a chance to relive a bit of my youth. I saw Peter Frampton in concert for the first time in 35+ years. Back when I was 16 years old, the Peter Frampton concert at the Civic Center was the hottest ticket in town. The show at Twin River seemed to be at capacity, but unlike the teen crowd in the ’70s this gathering was much, much, MUCH older. It was like an episode of “The Twilight Zone.” If I closed my eyes and listened, I was 16 again. But when I opened them I was shocked back to reality when I saw Frampton and the AARP crowd. After being introduced by some guy (unknown to me, anyway) in a top hat and dreadlocks as “Peter F*ckin’ Frampton,” Frampton took the Twin River stage at about 8:10. He came out playing the lead track from his blockbuster ’76 live album Frampton Comes Alive. He was backed by a four-piece band of guitar, bass, keys and drums. Without stopping, the band launched right into the next song, which was a cover of Bowie’s “Rebel, Rebel.” They continued non-stop into “Doobie Wah.” After a change of guitars from a Les Paul to a hollow body electric, Frampton led the band with “Show Me The Way” and stepped to the center microphone where his signature talk-box was waiting to wah. After this, he took a moment to address the audience. “Good evening, Lincoln. -
IT ALL STARTS with the MICROPHONE Things You Were Never Told
IT ALL STARTS WITH THE MICROPHONE THINGS YOU WERE NEVER TOLD $10 BOB HEIL PreFace Have you ever had the experience of a using a very expensive sound system and the sound was still awful? Have you ever been at a concert and not been able to understand the singer? Or been at a football game and not been able to understand the announcer? These are often examples of poor or improper use of the microphones—the source of all sound in modern sound systems. The microphone is the single most important piece of equipment in nearly every audio chain. You can have a very expensive sound system and if you do not understand how to use a microphone, the sound will be terrible. The quality of sound at the end (your ears) depends on the quality at the beginning. If you work with sound, it is essential that you have a thorough grasp of how microphones work, the different types of microphones and what they do. How a microphone sounds and behaves in a particular situation will significantly affect your success in achieving “good” sound. This publication is targeted at educating those of us who use microphones every day yet may not be technical whiz kids. While sound does involve physics, the basic understanding of microphones is not rocket science! We will bring new and informative “light” to the subject of mics, and also discuss and define issues that affect them and their surroundings. You will discover important information that will help you get the most from your microphones and improve the sound you work with.