Earlier this year a music concert was held in Tokyo, however while the band was real, the singer was not. The concert was held for the vocaloid Hatsune Miku as well as all of her "friends" (Technically it is the same software package using different vocal source files for each virtual singer).
I am not a big fan of Hatsune (I think her voice is to high), but alot of things in this particular video and the event as a whole interested me. The music, which consisted of their best performances on the web, was supplied by a live band and a large projection screen projected the singers performance. Detail wise the singer models (and wardrobes) are not much different then what you see in miku miku dance, but good lighting and well motion captured choreography (If japan pop music has mastered anything, it is dance routines) provides a quality visual performance.
In the end, its another step in the direction of creating completely fabricated music artist. Much like youtube has already done, there are MANY song writers and performers out there but without the eye candy (read, hot 16 year old chick as your lead singer) it can be hard to create that breakthrough performance and get yourself known.
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westyAt least the japanise are not in denile when it comes to computer aided music , its strange how in western countries we still bother to have a human when we auto-tune them to the extent that the human dosent really perform a function on the music itself.
If you ditch the need to have human you can then do more experimental stuff with the songs.
Its a shame we dont have Humanoid robots to perform this sort of stuff yet maby another 10-20 years we will.
I'm suprized we don't have stuff close to this in western culture as in the end its all just motivated out of capitalism and its a fairly eficent reliable low cost and convenant way of making money out of music I guess gorilaz is the only thing like this in uk
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jmdsays...>> ^westy:
Its a shame we dont have Humanoid robots to perform this sort of stuff yet maby another 10-20 years we will.
I'm suprized we don't have stuff close to this in western culture as in the end its all just motivated out of capitalism and its a fairly eficent reliable low cost and convenant way of making money out of music I guess gorilaz is the only thing like this in uk
There was a video floating around where they synched a humanoid robots mouth to a hatsune song, but she looked nothing like hatsune so it kinda ruined it. Also it really lacked the mouth movements needed to be a convincing singer robot.
As for why we havn't seen much of this over here, its kinda depressing but the only software doing this is yamahas Vocaloid 2 (and 1, but no one uses it now) package. Also the package and singers are predominantly japanese, with only one of them sounding any good in english. Apparently we will see a hatsune english voice pack in the near future. Also vocaloid 3 is in the works and I imagine at that point is when we may see some serious mainstream use of vocaloids.
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