Did any of you read Idoru by William Gibson? You should.
In this book Mr. Gibson lays down the idea that our future pop stars will be purely synthetic creations. When you look at the current state of pop music in it’s totality it seems perverse that we should subject humans to all that expensive surgery, studio magic and photoshop re-touching to get the latest variation on ‘perfection’. After their moment passes it would seem we end up with severely broken humans like Michael Jackson or Britney Spears. As the famous flesh human ages, a dark battle rages inside these fading stars that appears on their faces and bodies - take a look at the vast swathes of ‘legends’ as they slide up the red carpet - it’s a god-damn horror show. They appear like Sam Lowry’s surgery addicted mother Ida, in the film Brazil, usually more bronzed than Han Solo encased in carbonite. Unlike Han however, their attempts at suspended animation are somewhat less successful.
Editorialization aside, Vocaloid 2 is a piece of software from Yamaha that let your create a synthetic vocal track just by entering lyrics and the melody into the software. It costs about AUD$165.00. Have a listen to the file below for a demo. It would appear that we’re now one step closer to our idoru pop-stars of the future. Let’s stop this madness of trying to make the flesh and grey-matter bend to the will of 14 year old girls and half-witted fashion crazed A&R douches.
via HobbyBlog, via BoingBoing
