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Human After All: Auto-tune, Technology, and Human Creativity / In Depth // Drowned In Sound


Auto-Tune is great for fixing vocals, but we use Auto-Tune in a way it wasn t designed to work. A lot of people complain about musicians using Auto-Tune. It reminds me of the late 70s when musicians in France tried to ban the synthesizer. They said it was taking jobs away from musicians. What they didn t see was that you could use those tools in a new way instead of just for replacing the instruments that came before. People are often afraid of things that sound new. Thomas Bangalter (Daft Punk)
Technology has long held an uncomfortable position in music. Part of this discomfort inevitably comes from trying to understand technology s relationship to humanity and leads to an artificial separation of the two into dubiously separate spheres. From modern-day DJs exclusively using vinyl, to March King John Philip Sousa attacking recording technology, there has often been a mistrust of the supposedly new and technological in music. Auto-tune is just one of many examples of a te ....

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