Re: [microsound] Wall-E glitch

[Matteo Milani <coloursofnoise@xxxxxxxxx>]

It's Kyma for sure! More here:
http://usoproject.blogspot.com/2007/06/pixars-wall-e-revealed.html

and here you can watch the tablet in action:

http://usoproject.blogspot.com/2008/06/wall-e-featurette-story-sound.html

MM



On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Kim Cascone <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I am forwarding an interesting post to the Max list by Alex Noyes – note:
> text bolding is mine
>
>  believe it is kyma using a wacom tablet as a controller...
>>
>> "I could reassemble the Wall-E vocals and perform it with a light pen on a
>> tablet. You could change pitch by moving the pen or the pressure of the pen
>> would sustain or stretch syllables or consonants and you could get an
>> additional level of performance that way, kind of like playing a musical
>> instrument. But that process had artifacts in it, things that made it unlike
>> human speech, glitches you might say, things you might throw away if you
>> were trying to convince someone it was a human voice. That's what we liked,
>> that electronic alias thing that went along with it, because that helped
>> make the illusion that the sound was coming from a voice box or some kind of
>> circuit depending on the character."
>>
>> From this interview: http://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_14930.html
>>
>> Alex
>>
>>
>
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