Comments | merin_chan: What can a Vocaloid do?

merin_chan

What can a Vocaloid do?

Aug 31, 2012 19:08

Aaaand there goes the summer. Wow. Now that I'm home again, I can't even begin to summarize everything that happened in Japan, everything that's happened in my life. So instead I'll look back by looking forward, and just do my acafannish thing ( Read more... )

cons, vocaloid, deleuze and guattari, japan

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rax September 1 2012, 00:22:14 UTC

This paper sounds amazing and I would love to read/hear it when you're done.

merin_chan September 1 2012, 15:23:41 UTC

Thanks! I'll send it to you once I've got it written up a little more formally than in my lecture notes. Your feedback is always appreciated.

Also, I don't know if you got it, but I linked you an article about becoming-octopus through LJ messaging. Just in case you're interested! ^^

ext_1585694 January 9 2013, 09:01:45 UTC

i would really like to read more about this article regarding vocaloid and kyara~! i myself am doing an assignment on vocaloid and your works will be a great additional information and citation in my assignment~

anonymous March 29 2013, 02:32:09 UTC

Hmmm what can a vocaloid do? Was originally returning to your blog to answer your 2011-02-12 "Words that we couldn't say" post, because it struck something in me - even though I came upon your journal researching other stuff. I have a fondness for the current vocaloid phenom, because something like it hit me 12-13 years ago, when i found myself trying to use nascent pc music software, primitive text-to-speech engines, autotune and random text generators to get "something" out of my system ( ... )

merin_chan March 29 2013, 20:36:39 UTC

Wow, thanks so much for your comment! I had no idea that anyone even remembered those posts you mention, especially since I get so few comments. You've really made my day!

I'd be fascinated to hear more about your early (and maybe future?) experiments with computer-generated music. I took a Digital Music course in high school (about 1998-99) where I had a lot of fun distorting the sounds of keyboards into "songs" that are still probably hanging around on floppy disks somewhere. So I've always had a fondness for electronic sounds too. Thanks for your link, btw! It's interestingly layered.

As for Miku...well, she's something else for me, more than a musical instrument. She sets off some kind of desiring for an inhuman or posthuman body I have and don't have, for the virtuality of my body. I guess that's why I went into D&G territory. I'm planning to submit the article version of this talk to the journal Mechademia, for an issue based on the conference in Seoul where I (also) presented it. Sorry! But at least Mechademia is more widely ( ... )