Music Lecture / We Are/And the Robots! How Pop Music Changed Its Voice?
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We Are/And the Robots! How Pop Music Changed Its Voice?
Auto-Tune, synthesizers, vocoders, and samples have transformed the sound of the human voice. Sometimes creators deliberately distort it to appear more artificial and strange. Sometimes they secretly fix minor imperfections to make everything sound flawless. Overall, the human voice in pop music today is very different from how it was 50 or even 25 years ago.
In his new lecture, journalist and music critic Kolya Ovchinnikov explores how pop music has reshaped our understanding of voice, vocals, and lyrical delivery over the past 50 years.
What we'll talk about:
-How mid-century science fiction influenced the sound of synth-pop
-How have Auto-Tune and generative formats changed music?
-Who invented Auto-Tune
-How Kanye West, in his prime, sparked two revolutions in vocal pop music
-How Auto-Tune transformed the voice into a completely new instrument of modern hip-hop
-Is a corrected voice still a voice, or just as fake as AI?
-How AI is changing our perception of vocals
Let’s argue, reflect, and discuss.
Kolya Ovchinnikov is a journalist and music commentator, creator of Volna Latvia, and telegram channel Voice
📍Laska V21
👉🏻FREE ENTRANCE
*The event will be held in Russian.
*** By attending this event, you agree to have photos or videos of you taken for Laska V21 marketing purposes. You can refuse to be photographed or filmed by informing the photographer or cameraperson.
Auto-Tune, synthesizers, vocoders, and samples have transformed the sound of the human voice. Sometimes creators deliberately distort it to appear more artificial and strange. Sometimes they secretly fix minor imperfections to make everything sound flawless. Overall, the human voice in pop music today is very different from how it was 50 or even 25 years ago.
In his new lecture, journalist and music critic Kolya Ovchinnikov explores how pop music has reshaped our understanding of voice, vocals, and lyrical delivery over the past 50 years.
What we'll talk about:
-How mid-century science fiction influenced the sound of synth-pop
-How have Auto-Tune and generative formats changed music?
-Who invented Auto-Tune
-How Kanye West, in his prime, sparked two revolutions in vocal pop music
-How Auto-Tune transformed the voice into a completely new instrument of modern hip-hop
-Is a corrected voice still a voice, or just as fake as AI?
-How AI is changing our perception of vocals
Let’s argue, reflect, and discuss.
Kolya Ovchinnikov is a journalist and music commentator, creator of Volna Latvia, and telegram channel Voice
📍Laska V21
👉🏻FREE ENTRANCE
*The event will be held in Russian.
*** By attending this event, you agree to have photos or videos of you taken for Laska V21 marketing purposes. You can refuse to be photographed or filmed by informing the photographer or cameraperson.
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Laska V21, Matīsa iela 115a, Rīga, LV-1009, Latvija, Riga, Latvia
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