Vocoding for Robyn

"we dance to the beat" interactive beat machine

One of my latest projects is now online: an interactive music video for Robyn. It was produced on a shoe string budget with volunteers from DinahMoe, B-Reel, North Kingdom and Blip Boutique, among others. In other words, a bit of a dream team! Jakob Nylund dreamt up the VCR-ish design, Johan and Erik at DinahMoe did the sound interaction bit. My part was generating the vocoded voice that says the name of each beat creator (under “stream”). This was done using the open source speech synth flite, the mda vocoder, and a fair amount of custom code to nice up the sound, all running on a minimal virtual fedora machine over at rackspace. Enjoy!

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