How to Wreck a Nice Beach
The history of the vocoder: how popular music hijacked the Pentagon's speech scrambling weapon The vocoder, invented by Bell Labs in 1928, once guarded phones from eavesdroppers during World War II; by the Vietnam War, it was repurposed as a voice-altering tool for musicians, and is now the ubiquitous voice of popular music. In How to Wreck a Nice Beachafrom a mis-hearing of the vocoder-rendered phrase ahow to recognize speechaamusic journalist Dave Tompkins traces the history of electronic voices from Nazi research labs to Stalinas gulags, from the 1939 Worldas Fair to Hiroshima, from artificial larynges to Auto-Tune. We see the vocoder brush up against FDR, JFK, Stanley Kubrick, Stevie Wonder, Neil Young, Kraftwerk, the Cylons, Henry Kissinger, and Winston Churchill, who boomed, when vocoderized on V-E Day, aWe must go off!a And now vocoder technology is a cell phone standard, allowing a digital replica of your voice to sound human. From T-Mobile to T-Pain, How to Wreck a Nice Beach is a riveting saga of technology and culture, illuminating the work of some of musicas most provocative innovators. From the Hardcover edition.From T-Mobile to T-Pain, How to Wreck a Nice Beach is a riveting saga of technology and culture, illuminating the work of some of musicas most provocative innovators. From the Hardcover edition.
| Title | : | How to Wreck a Nice Beach |
| Author | : | Dave Tompkins |
| Publisher | : | Melville House - 2011-11-08 |
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