worship the glitch
This is Eric Mortensen's blog. He works @ Blip and lives in Brooklyn.
Dave Tompkins shows us the inspiration for his new vocoder book, “How To Wreck a Nice Beach.”
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In How to Wreck a Nice Beach—from a mis-hearing of the vocoder-rendered phrase “how to recognize speech”—music journalist Dave Tompkins traces the history of electronic voices from Nazi research labs to Stalin’s gulags, from the 1939 World’s Fair to Hiroshima, from Manhattan nightclubs to the Muppets.
This is what I was strarting to upload when I rediscovered the track that led to the previous post.
My EyeTV tuner has a function that reads the TV signal strength aloud. I ran that through my Korg Kaoss Pad’s vocoder and then “played” the instrument (altering the number spoken) by fiddling around with the connection between the TV tuner and the antenna while manipulating the pitch on the Kaoss Pad. All of this was done live and simultaneously.
