Vox humana: The Instrumental Representation of the Human Voice

van Leeuwen, T

Vox humana: The Instrumental Representation of the Human Voice

van Leeuwen, T

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Publisher:: MIT Press
Publication Type:: Chapter
Citation:: Voice: Vocal Aesthetics in Digital Arts and Media, 2010, 1, pp. 5 - 15
Issue Date:: 2010-01

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dc.contributor.author	van Leeuwen, T https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2163-8700	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Neumark, N	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Gibson, R	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	van Leeuwen, T https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2163-8700	en_US
dc.date.issued	2010-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Voice: Vocal Aesthetics in Digital Arts and Media, 2010, 1, pp. 5 - 15	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	978-0-262-01390-1	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/17889
dc.description.abstract	I am a jazz pianist and church organ player as well as an academic. Two years ago I bought a new digital piano, a Roland RD300-SX. Its hundreds of voices imitate the whole range of traditional musical instruments, but also include "human voices": Aah Choirs and Oooh Choirs, Jazz Scat, Space Voices, and more. As a church organ player, I knew this was nothing new. Church organs have included vox humana ("human voice") stops for centuries. I became intrigued. Is there a continuity between analog and digital musical representations of the human voice, or has digitality introduced a new dimension? It is this question that I will explore in this chapter.	en_US
dc.publisher	MIT Press	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Voice: Vocal Aesthetics in Digital Arts and Media	en_US
dc.title	Vox humana: The Instrumental Representation of the Human Voice	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
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Abstract:

I am a jazz pianist and church organ player as well as an academic. Two years ago I bought a new digital piano, a Roland RD300-SX. Its hundreds of voices imitate the whole range of traditional musical instruments, but also include "human voices": Aah Choirs and Oooh Choirs, Jazz Scat, Space Voices, and more. As a church organ player, I knew this was nothing new. Church organs have included vox humana ("human voice") stops for centuries. I became intrigued. Is there a continuity between analog and digital musical representations of the human voice, or has digitality introduced a new dimension? It is this question that I will explore in this chapter.

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