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What happens when AI-synthesized vocals meet choral notation?
Tokyo-based startup Dreamtonics is doing unparalleled work with AI-powered voices; their Synthesizer V Studio enables a level of precision that combines that of recording and synthesis. Add that to Steinberg’s Dorico scorewriter, and you get a machine mockup of solo singers and choirs that we’ve never heard before. But there are a lot of details involved — so let’s hear from an expert.
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Drew Daniel, aka The Soft Pink Truth, hits home talking strings and survival
“Mere Survival is Not Enough.” Professor Drew Daniel, you had us on the title on this one. The artist, known for being half of Matmos, and being all of Dr. Drew Daniel, and the solo project The Soft Pink Truth, talks about string arrangements and the meaning behind the track title in an interview.
Shelâl by Odiv from south Iran opens a portal to local ghosts
Odiv, a young composer from Ahvaz, communes in Shelâl with deeply felt darkness. It’s haunted not as a fetish, not as the pastiche musical surplus equivalent of a costume shop, as piles up in so much “dark” music. But it’s a horror that’s movingly personal. Maybe it’s time for tea and conversation with all our demons and ghosts. Out now on Zabte Sote.
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