Dear Mike and Vocalisters:
You wrote:
> cook is absolutely right in saying that there is soft singing that can
>only be done with amplification (and be heard). i understand that a lot of
>people are bothered by amplification (i know you are one of them) but, it
>does open up other possibilities that were impossible before. perhaps the
>objections should be to how it is done rather than to it being done at all.
I am sure you are aware of the superior electronic equipment that has
become available in the past few years that provide total electronic
control over the voice. To quote a recent ad for a piece of
equipment from Sweetwater Sound.
"Now only $999.00. We've heard a lot of amazing gear in our time,
but the VoicePrism gave us chills. The most advanced voice formant,
pitch processor and vocal harmonizer available."
Quite simply, this device and devices like and devices like it to
come, can make any voice into a quality singing voice that can
produce any kind of tone desired which is always in pitch and is
always as perfect as desired. If the voice is sung into a mike, it
can be altered to any degree desired. It is to live singing as
computer cartooning is to live acting. And it is the major portion
of most of the pops scene today. We can only hope that a revolt is
in the wings that will bring all forms of singing back into the their
natural expression of vocal production that is unaltered and
represents the native quality potentials of the human voice.
Perhaps we will return to the human qualities of the voice be they
developed for the large stage or for the living room but be they a
natural expression of human vocal potential and limits and not a
product of an electronic process.
For what it is worth.
--
Lloyd W. Hanson, DMA
Professor of Voice and Vocal Pedagogy, Emeritus
Director of Opera-Theatre, 1987-1997
College of Fine Arts (formerly, School of Performing Arts)
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZ Lloyd W. Hanson
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