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Synthesized Voices

Charles Dodge

Synthesized Voices

Death Is Not The End

DEATH135

Cassette $16.50

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LP Black $29.50

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  • Available on cassette and LP
  • 1976 collection of synthesised speech music
  • Uncanny, landmark pieces that spearheaded early computer speech synthesis as a form for musical composition

Description

DINTE reissues Charles Dodge’s 1976 collection of synthesised speech music, 1972-1975. Using mainframe computers at Bell Laboratories, Dodge analysed and dismantled audio recordings of surrealist poetry by Mark Strand, mathematically and meticulously reconstructing them in synthetic form - resulting in these uncanny, landmark pieces that spearheaded early computer speech synthesis as a form for musical composition.

Preview Tracklist

  • 1 In Celebration

  • 2 Speech Songs I: When I Am with You

  • 3 Speech Songs II: He Destroyed Her Image

  • 4 Speech Songs III: A Man Sitting in the Cafeteria

  • 5 Speech Songs IV: The Days are Ahead

  • 6 The Story of Our Lives I: We Are Reading the Story of Our Lives

  • 7 The Story of Our Lives II: We are Reading the Story of Our Lives

  • 8 The Story of Our Lives III: This Morning I Woke and Believed

  • 9 The Story of Our Lives IV: Before You Woke

  • 10 The Story of Our Lives V: If Only There Were A Perfect Moment in the Book

  • 11 The Story of Our Lives VI: The Day Goes On

  • 12 The Story of Our Lives VII: The Book Will Not Survive