Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site peora.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!qantel!hplabs!tektronix!uw-beaver!cornell!vax135!petsd!peora!jer From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: KB-high voice/low voice Message-ID: <1425@peora.UUCP> Date: Sat, 3-Aug-85 23:14:52 EDT Article-I.D.: peora.1425 Posted: Sat Aug 3 23:14:52 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 6-Aug-85 11:30:21 EDT References: <1365@peora.UUCP> <4781@mit-eddie.UUCP> <1412@peora.UUCP> <1014@ihlpg.UUCP> Organization: Perkin-Elmer SDC, Orlando, Fl. Lines: 31 > I just thought the word 'it' was a redundancy referring to her death (maybe > for the demands of the music.) Am I being too simplistic, or are you perhaps > being too demanding in wanting every little work to carry some vast signifi- > cance? If you have ever written poetry, then you will know that "every little word" contains significance, if it is good poetry. The reason I decided I like Kate Bush is that I decided that she was a fairly good poet. > Like you say, it's hard to know, but I somehow doubt that anyone could > manufacture something as striking as her high voice. Think about "Violin" > (NEVER FOR EVER) for a while. I'm a mezzo-soprano, and sometimes if I'm in > one of my weirder moods, I'll go ahead and (attempt to) sing along with that > particular song. (Ah, the things my roommate puts up with....) It is tempting to make an ad-hominem comment here, but I won't. It wouldn't be hard to manufacture something like that. You could do it like this. Record all the instrumen-tals on a multitrack tape machine. Slow down the tape machine a whole lot. Play it back; record your voice as you sing along with the music at your normal vocal range, but at a much slower tempo, and an octave or two higher than the music you hear playing back. Presto! "Double-speed voice," like Mike Oldfield's "Double Speed Guitar". Not that Kate Bush would do that, but you asked how you would MANUFACTURE such a thing. -- Shyy-Anzr: J. Eric Roskos UUCP: ..!{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!vax135!petsd!peora!jer US Mail: MS 795; Perkin-Elmer SDC; 2486 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, FL 32809-7642 "Vg frrzf yvxr hc gb zr."