I always though this was amazing, and a great disappointment that there weren't more videos and documentation about the project. It clearly took a lot of effort, and it's a shame that there's nothing more than a news report to show for it.
Bot-controlled piano emulating spoken voice (2009) [video]
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Re: Bot-controlled piano emulating spoken voice (2009) [video]
#12Not mechanical, so much lower resolution... but you might have recently seen the History of Japan video being linked around... the guy who did that, Bill Wurtz also did this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBI-nZTUgf8
There's an entire subreddit of this stuff as I guess it's really good practice for playing by ear:
https://www.reddit.com/r/zappafied
It includes this awesome Palin one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBI-nZTUgf8
P.S. In case you missed it this is the History of Japan one again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh5LY4Mz15o If you watch it again, you can hear him using that technique of harmonizing with his own spoken voice in the background music of that video.
Re: Bot-controlled piano emulating spoken voice (2009) [video]
#13Not mechanical, so much lower resolution... but you might have recently seen the History of Japan video being linked around... the guy who did that, Bill Wurtz also did this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBI-nZTUgf8 There's an entire subreddit of this stuff as I guess it's really good practice for playing by ear: https://www.reddit.com/r/zappafied It includes this awesome Palin one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
I'm 5 minutes into /r/zappafied and it's already my new favorite thing. Thank you!
Re: Bot-controlled piano emulating spoken voice (2009) [video]
#14Very interesting ! I guess it's possible to use a MIDI synthesizer instead of the physical piano to achieve the same result ? All that's needed is the conversion from the voice spectrum to notes/chords... The added advantage is that it would be possible to use the pitch wheel to achieve intermediate notes for higher fidelity.. The output can then be processed again and it's pitch changed and so we can create music fr…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecm5PKTiVhw
Thank you for bringing Paul Lansky to my attention! A radically new soundscape (for me at least). Any more recommendations?
Re: Bot-controlled piano emulating spoken voice (2009) [video]
#15great. now my nightmares have a voice. :)
I do love the fact that someone had a non-trivial odd-ball idea and followed through.
Re: Bot-controlled piano emulating spoken voice (2009) [video]
#16Assuming it's not all homegrown, can anyone determine what software he was using besides MPlayer?
Re: Bot-controlled piano emulating spoken voice (2009) [video]
#17It's like with those "Play X backwards to hear the Devil" type videos. You understand it perfectly with subtitles, but close your eyes and it's gibberish.
This article talks about that effect (with a similar example):
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/sounds...
Re: Bot-controlled piano emulating spoken voice (2009) [video]
#18Not mechanical, so much lower resolution... but you might have recently seen the History of Japan video being linked around... the guy who did that, Bill Wurtz also did this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBI-nZTUgf8 There's an entire subreddit of this stuff as I guess it's really good practice for playing by ear: https://www.reddit.com/r/zappafied It includes this awesome Palin one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
This technique is similar to one Steve Reich's incorporated in a lot of his music, most notably Different Trains (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRpfbTI1EA)
Re: Bot-controlled piano emulating spoken voice (2009) [video]
#19Consider the low resolution of this piano speech. Pay attention at how many notes are used to create that low resolution speech, then imagine how many notes/frequencies are really used in natural speech.
As an amateur singer it's amazing and frightening how big is the range to sing out of tune.
Re: Bot-controlled piano emulating spoken voice (2009) [video]
#20Not mechanical, so much lower resolution... but you might have recently seen the History of Japan video being linked around... the guy who did that, Bill Wurtz also did this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBI-nZTUgf8 There's an entire subreddit of this stuff as I guess it's really good practice for playing by ear: https://www.reddit.com/r/zappafied It includes this awesome Palin one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
Ha... there's a guy named Chassol who does the same live. Lovely to find more.