4 Mar
2005
4 Mar
'05
7:17 a.m.
Pete Turnbull wrote:
Sounds (sorry) like a good idea. The inspiration for
HAL singing
"Daisy" when he was lobotomised by Dave Bowman in "2001" was that
Bell
Labs had demonstrated an IBM 7094 "singing" "Daisy" in 1961. Bell
Labs
were doing research into vocal-tract modelling; John Kelly had wired a
speaker to one of the output bits and he and Carol Lochbaum[1]
programmed the vocal, with Max Mathews, who was pioneering digital
music, did the accompaniment. The whole thing was programmed onto
magtape, read back once complete and "played" through the speaker. The
recording they made was also once available on an album called "Music
from Mathematics".
A great, clean source for this and other pioneering music synthesis experiments
is on "The Historical CD of Digital Sound Synthesis", a CD+booklet set.
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