It's from Live Earth as it stated. Whats amazing is that the vocal is synthesized by taking samples from several different female singers, and the image is a hologram.

http://genkirockets.com/ . Their official site.

While this is *extremely* cool on its own, think of the potential. An intuitive programmable synthesizer with a 20' interactive touchscreen display for the user interface. Playing such an instrument would rock my world I can assure you.

Upvote for the imitation of synthesized voice and the binary solo.

Perhaps while legalizing all drugs in their purest forms, while simultaneously making all prescription controlled substances obsolete through right living and thinking.....folks who have never programmed their bodies to rely on sugar, for instance, become ill if they eat too much.....same with antidepressant addicts.....seen folks tolerances that were violently scary...same dose, would put some in an emergency room...and WHY again is it that anti-depressants were developed and manufactured???...why were there more heroin addicts in the US after the civil war?? Pain-killer addiction, morphine, heroin.....fast forward to now, we traded drugs that have been here since Methusela's day, for some pay-to-the-man, legal addictive synthesized shinola that renders the post-industrial prole, a simpering, passive-aggressive, robot.....HAH! the prospect of the alternative to the republican party in the US's next go-round, make ya wanna just scream from yer spaceship, -Silly, pathetic humans, soon you will meet your own insanity head-on!!.....(got any popcorn???let's watch that shit!!)

Election 08' vote same, vote lame, pick the most-used, paid-for name, just make sure, it don't say it's the same....red team blue team, rah rah rah..

(damn, did we vote yet???)

OMFG these guys are synthesizing life forms!

Yup, I had one. Favorite games: that horrible pac-man clone thing and that horrible Star Trek thing. I had the tape recorder and even the speech synthesizer! And you could tell the voice model for the speech synthesizer was from Texas. It was fun programming that clunky thing.

When Frank Zappa Produced an Album....he did it the only way possible, the Frank way...
Musicians

* Frank Zappa – guitar, keyboards, vocals, arranger, producer, main performer, assistant
* Tommy Mars – keyboards, vocals, soloist
* Patrick O'Hearn – wind, bass guitar
* Scott Thunes – vocals, Minimoog, synthesizer, bass guitar
* Johnny "Guitar" Watson – vocals, guitar
* Ray White – guitar, vocals, backing vocals, choir, chorus, harmony vocals, harmony
* Moon Unit Zappa – vocals
* Ed Mann – percussion
* Chad Wackerman – drums, vocals
* Ike Willis – vocals, backing vocals, choir, chorus, harmony vocals, harmony
* Arthur Barrow – bass guitar
* Napoleon Murphy Brock – saxophone, vocals, harmony vocals, harmony
* Brad Cole – piano
* Roy Estrada – vocals, backing vocals, choir, chorus, harmony, bass guitar
* Bob Harris – keyboards, vocals, harmony vocals
* Thana Harris – vocals, harmony
* Steve Vai – guitar, soloist, fills
* Dweezil Zappa – soloist, guitar
* George Duke – keyboards, vocals, piano
* Bobby Martin – keyboards, saxophone, vocals, falssetist, harmony vocals, harmonica

You're right, it is strange to hear them speak to him in such a basic way. Perhaps they're too aware of his inability to express himself in the moment without his voice synthesizer (and, as such, overcompensating on his behalf.) I'm sure they needn't have worried.

I wonder if he needs to hear a particular accent... kinda like the TI-994a's speach synthesizer and it's Texas accent... very funny. Glad I'm still using Win2k.

This is just all kinds of awesome.

Shpongle (IPA: ˈʃpɒŋ.gl̩) is considered to be one of the most important and influential psychedelic downtempo or Psybient music projects of recent years. The members are Simon Posford (aka Hallucinogen) and Raja Ram (one third of The Infinity Project). Their sound is a mix mainly consisting of sampled eastern ethnic instruments and western contemporary synthesizer-based psychedelic music. Posford is responsible for the synth and studio work while Raja Ram contributes with flute arrangements. They are both responsible for the visionary input. According to one interview, they commonly visualize the music together before they create it, and during the creation process.

Dimethyltryptamine (DMT), also known as N,N-dimethyltryptamine, is a powerful psychoactive substance. If DMT is smoked, injected, or orally ingested with an MAOI, it can produce powerful entheogenic experiences including true hallucinations (perceived extensions of reality). This is the come down...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shpongle

From the YouTube page:
"The reactable, is a multi-user electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving physical objects on a luminous table surface. By moving and relating these objects, representing components of a classic modular synthesizer, users can create complex and dynamic sonic topologies, with generators, filters and modulators, in a kind of tangible modular synthesizer or graspable flow-controlled programming language.

This instrument is being developed by a team of digital luthiers (Sergi Jordà , Martin Kaltenbrunner, Günter Geiger and Marcos Alonso), at the Music Technology Group within the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain."

There's already another video on here about this table. This one explains what the different objects do and how they are used.

More info here: http://mtg.upf.edu/reactable

this is lovely. some images are a bit hackneyed (if it reminds me of a hype williams video from the 90's... ummm...) and feel emotionally false and set up (the music itself is over-produced to the point that even the voice starts sounding like a synthesizer to me). but it is still lovely.

oh! I've been to Dominica ('the nature island') and it is incredible. Saw a sperm whale off of Dominica... amazing..

Little bit of trivia for you: Synthesizer Patel played by Sanjeev Kohli, brother of Hardeep Singh Kohli who made the Scientology documentary posted a short while ago.

Bring on Synthesizer Patel! (best part of series two)

Lakuna was an electronic instrumental project begun by drummer David Narcizo after Throwing Muses first split up following their 1996 Limbo album. Lakuna first released a 12-inch called So Happy and then a 1999 full-length album called Castle of Crime. Narcizo provided drums, drum programming, and keyboards on all the tracks. The album's guest musicians included Bernard Georges on bass, Kristin Hersh on guitar loops, Belly's Tom Gorman on bass, Melissa "Misi" Narcizo on piano and keyboards, and Frank Gardner on bass and bass synthesizer. Narcizo employed tape loops and samples from obscure, vintage music to achieve the album's ambient-styled instrumental sounds.

http://www.4ad.com/lakuna/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakuna