#themachinesaretakingover

[bpennington]

[musicnerddd]

Voices, music and machines

In 2020 we are living in the machine age. Most of us carry at least 1 machine around a day; a phone, smart watch, iPod, kindle, laptop, tablet e.t.c. Have you ever stopped to notice that when we sing or play an instrument, we are in a sense, a machine? We are providing a product through a specific method just like an iPod provides music through its hardware and algorithms. We essentially become a machine through the hard-wiring playing an instrument ingrains in us.

This may seem like a stretch. But one very obvious way humans become ‘machine like’ is through beatboxing. Beatboxers can make sounds that most people didn’t think are humanly possible. 

In the video above, beatboxer Nicole Paris and her father have a battle. Within this you can hear the pair imitating sounds of turntables, bass, synths, drums and many more awesome sounds. Through beatboxing they are creating sounds that usually are only possible by machines and their imitation of this is incredibly close to the original sounds made by the machines in the first place.

So in this case we have humans imitating machines but we also have machines in the form of studio editing, correcting human flaws. Through autotune, it makes anyone appear as if they can sing relatively in tune and many famous singers sound completely different live compared to their studio recordings as shown in the video below.

It is scary how different some of them sound compared to their released versions. Through this autotuning and studio editing, it is reinforcing an unreachable expectation. It is creating an impossible standard for singers listening to their favourite artists and not hearing one breath or crack or fault anywhere. When actually, all these natural ‘faults’/human elements are all their in the original and are vigorously slashed by producers who use their machines to create the kind of perfection that most humans will never naturally achieve.

So next time you compare yourself negatively to your favourite singer, just remember this process and that a LOT of famous singers sound terrible in real contexts. 

[jourdyn-k]

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