[LAU] [Absolutely OT] - for musicians only

[Gordon JC Pearce]

On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 21:55 +0000, Folderol wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:58:39 -0800
> Ken Restivo <ken at restivo.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 06:52:21PM +0100, fons at kokkinizita.net wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 09:41:35AM -0800, Ken Restivo wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I'm absolutely stunned by the quality of the vocal work
> > > > on Stephane's Rennaisance-styled choral peices, which are
> > > > made entirely of phonemes generated on Linux-- no actual singers.
> > > > So I'd guess if you partner with him, it'd be entirely possible
> > > > to generate the whole choir in Linux.
> > > 
> > > I only know one Stephane on LAU - the Jack2 one - are you
> > > you referring to him ? Any pointers to his work ?
> > > It would be great if we could do that *live* ...
> > 
> > Stéphane Magnenat,
> > 
> > http://stephane.magnenat.net/music.html
> > 
> > I have no idea if that's the JACK2 dude, but his choral peices done in Linux are pretty impressive.
> > 
> > -ken
> 
> Just finally got around to checking this out. If you hadn't told me
> these weren't real singers I'd never have guessed it :?

Nowhere on the page does it say the voices were synthesized, and on the
second piece it actually has a list of the names of the performers.

The composer uses open-source software running on Linux to compose and
score the piece, but not to perform it.  It's a bit of a shame - a
really good physical-modelling voice synth would be fun...

Gordon MM0YEQ