Vocoder

Kentucky Route Zero’s android musicians are releasing a whole album

Edit Kill Screen 23 Aug 2016

Junebug, of Kentucky Route Zero’s duo of robotic musicians, is releasing an album. Self-titled and comprised of 11 tracks, the release is an elaboration upon one of the game’s highlights. a late-night performance in a nearly-empty dive bar called the Lower Depths ... seamless integrations of humanity and machine ... /// ... “Maybe the most obvious answer to the problem of making a robot voice would be to use a vocoder or something,” Babbitt said....

Frank Ocean's 'Blonde' Album - Track By Track Review

Edit NME 21 Aug 2016

And so the wait is over, Frank Ocean's new album formerly known as 'Boys Don't Cry' is finally here and now it's called 'Blonde', which just so happens to also be the name of a racing car company that the R&B; singer owns ... Haha ... Just imagine ... 'Close to You' A short autotuned track that riffs off Stevie Wonder's vocoder cover of 'Close To You' by The Carpenters, with the song's familiar tune lingering under the surface like an earworm ... ....

Britney Spears to perform at MTV VMAs for first time since 2007 disaster

Edit Syracuse 17 Aug 2016

For the first time in nearly a decade, Britney Spears will perform at the MTV Video Music Awards ... 26 — just two days before the VMAs ... The lush, down-tempo bedroom number showcases a more subdued vocal from Spears, offering a refreshing departure from the Vocoder and Auto-Tune effects that have dotted her most recent work. Her decision to debut the track on the VMAs is appropriate ... ....

Britney Spears to perform at 2016 MTV Video Music Awards

Edit The Miami Herald 17 Aug 2016

For the first time in nearly a decade, Britney Spears will perform at the MTV Video Music Awards ... 26 - just two days before the VMAs ... The lush, down-tempo bedroom number showcases a more subdued vocal from Spears, offering a refreshing departure from the Vocoder and Auto-Tune effects that have dotted her most recent work. Her decision to debut the track on the VMAs is appropriate....

Record Press: Terrace Martin

Edit Skiddle 12 Aug 2016

Five tracks to introduce Terrace Martin, the writer, musician and producer ahead of his appearance at Band On The Wall with The Polly Seeds in November. Date published. 12th Aug 2016. Image. Terrace Martin  ... Martin's distinctive alto saxophone playing is all over the record, contributing greatly to this aesthetic ... scene ... Date ... Terrace MartinHotels ... Martin's vocoder work is another example of a sound recognisable from To Pimp a Butterfly....

First Listen: Tobacco, 'Sweatbox Dynasty'

Edit National Public Radio 11 Aug 2016

i. Tobacco's new album, Sweatbox Dynasty, comes out August 19. the seven fields of aphelion (Maureen Boyle)/Courtesy of the artist hide caption ... toggle caption Courtesy of the artist ... Engineering synth-pop's DNA into something far weirder and less linear, Fec cranks up Atari-era blips and vocoder-mutated vocals in "Wipeth Out," which may or may not be a radical reinterpretation of the legendary surf song "Wipe Out" by The Surfaris ... ....

Houston Artists Shine at Newport Jazz Festival

Edit Houston Press 03 Aug 2016

The sound on saxophonist Casey Benjamin’s vocoder – an instrument popularized by Stevie Wonder and Kenny G that, for better or worse, enables singers to channel their voices through a handheld synthesized keyboard – was feeding back, painfully ... Benjamin’s vocoder was no substitute for Norah Jones’ recorded vocal on ......

Weval Premieres Exclusive Mix, Talks New Album & Influences

Edit Billboard 21 Jul 2016

Harm Coolen and Merijn Scholte Albers, who record as Weval, released their strong debut album on the celebrated label Kompakt last month. Over the course of 12 tracks, the album flits through textures and styles, moving from grubby techno to shiny Vocoder pop and disco to grainy pools of electronics ... Merijn ... Harm ... Merijn ... I was really into this Vocoder sound. I had this urge to try out the old Vocoder, and I was working until like 8 a.m....

RELM’s C.E.O. Proclaims D Series Continued Support (RELM Wireless Corporation)

Edit Public Technologies 15 Jul 2016

(Source. RELM Wireless Corporation). Dear Valued Customer,. I would like to take a moment to share RELM's strategic direction regarding the introduction. of the new KNG series and the continued production and support of RELM's 'D' series,. which includes the DPH Portable and the DMH Mobile radios ... demand for the product and our customers require them! ... Trunking, Over the Air Programming (OTAP), GPS, DVSI™AMBE+2 Enhanced Dual-Rate Vocoder....

RELM’s C.E.O. Proclaims G & D Series Continued Support (RELM Wireless Corporation)

Edit Public Technologies 15 Jul 2016

(Source. RELM Wireless Corporation). Dear Valued Customer, ... RELM will continue to manufacture and support the 'G' & 'D' Series radios as long as there is ... These are exciting times for RELM as we have delivered 110 new products in the VHF, UHF and 700 / 800 frequency bands through June, 2013… All products and features are available today… P25 Trunking, Over the Air Programming (OTAP), GPS, DVSI™AMBE+2 Enhanced Dual-Rate Vocoder (Ver....

Should Firefighters Reconsider P25? (RELM Wireless Corporation)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Jun 2016

of Product Marketing During the past few years there have been updates to the Project 25 (P25) standards, improvements to the P25 vocoder and new P25 products incorporating these updates and improvements ... Equipment noise including fire apparatus, personal alert safety system (PASS) alarms and self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) presented unique challenges for the P25 vocoder....

Laura Mvula: The Dreaming Room review – vivid, original, it's the real deal

Edit The Guardian 16 Jun 2016

4 / 5 stars ... @alexispetridis ... A certain kind of audience was primed to expect something comfortingly familiar ... Related ... There are curious off-centre drums, almost aggressive explosions of vocal harmonies; Angel shifts from massed acapella – treated with a vocoder-like effect that gives it the feel of a mid-70s radio jingle – to a vaguely countryish guitar figure and then to a baroque harpsichord backing in the space of three minutes ... ....

12 Country Albums You Need to Hear

Edit Rhapsody 14 Jun 2016

It’s resulted in some interesting collaborations. Pitbull and Nile Rodgers with Keith Urban, Elle King and Trombone Shorty with Dierks Bentley, Demi Lovato with Brad Paisley and, of course, Gwen Stefani with Blake Shelton ... Here are 12 that demand your attention ... 1 ... 2 ... Robot vocoders crash into Southern boogie and rockabilly riffs, even in tunes originally sung by Freddie Mercury and David Bowie, the latter now co-starring Marilyn Manson ... ....