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...force behind both trends is an ingenious plug-in called Auto-Tune, a downloadable studio trick that can take a vocal and instantly nudge it onto the proper note or move it to the correct pitch. It's like Photoshop for the human voice. Auto-Tune doesn't make it possible for just anyone to sing like a pro, but used as its creator intended, it can transform a wavering performance into something technically flawless. "Right now, if you listen to pop, everything is in perfect pitch, perfect time and perfect tune," says producer Rick Rubin. "That's how ubiquitous...
...match up requires the even pitch that Auto-Tune provides. "It usually ends up just like plastic surgery," says a Grammy-winning recording engineer. "You haul out Auto-Tune to make one thing better, but then it's very hard to resist the temptation to spruce up the whole vocal, give everything a little nip-tuck." Like plastic surgery, he adds, more people have had it than you think. "Let's just say I've had Auto-Tune save vocals on everything from Britney Spears to Bollywood cast albums. And every singer now presumes that you'll just run their...
...making that album the least-loved of the New Pornographers’ output. “Thunderbolts” is a particularly disappointing example. The song provides none of the hooks Newman is known for, instead serving up a drone of piano chords and a phoned-in vocal performance. “Prophets” also goes nowhere, occasionally threatening to burst out into a glorious melody but instead settling for a chorus that is neither coherent nor interesting. These tracks and others suffer from the album’s extremely poor production. Almost every song sounds flat, with...
...electronic sound, the album affects a reoccurring cycle of freak-pop whose contours range from low-end love songs to psychedelic-dance.The album’s ambitious opener sets the tone. “In The Flowers” seems to emerge from outer space, with Portner’s vocals fading in and out over various layers of keyboard sound, before blossoming all at once into a percussive, anthemic epiphany. Portner’s vocal harmonies with Lennox have never sounded better, while the former’s impressive range has always been the signature of the band, the latter?...
...various challenges while staging this modern piece, which conforms to the Mozart model in its organizational structure but strays from those constraints with an offbeat musical content in keeping with Stravinsky’s rhythmic innovations. “We had some reservations because of the difficulty of the vocal writing, which can be virtuosic and unidiomatic at times, and also the difficulty of the orchestra parts,” Kim said. “However, it was our first choice from almost the beginning of the selection process because of the quality of the libretto, the varied and interesting...