musical technologies; sample, analog, acoustic,digital etc..

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> I'm surprised to read it is Tomita's own voice in "Venus". It sounds like a woman voice ! But I must admit I never heared Tomita
> speaking. And in "Bermuda", the piece "Vocoder" is only made of electronic "whispers". So, difficult to make one's idea about it...

As he didn't explain the processing he did, he could very well have used
an envalope follower on his own voice to shape another source. Clearly
what he does have is something processed by several things.that was at
least shaped by his own voice. Also thinking, it could be recorded at
half speed. What is clear is it's not a vocoder.

semi off topic:
then again I've been listening to Susumu Hirasawa's albums for several
years and he surprised everyone with falsetto vocals all of a sudden a
couple years ago. Listen about half way into "sample-2"
http://chaosunion.com/ew/studio/sample.htm
He'll probably be pretty well known once Dreamworks releases the highly
acclaimed anime "Millennium Actress" outside Japan, a really fine score.


And on the whole sampling discussion it's key to know that as of the
late 90s, if not earlier Tomita has been admitting himself that the Moog
sounds better as a means of sound creation than digital synthesizers.