complexdreams
10-07-06, 12:21 AM
I'm working but am leaving to train in mental health social care because I'm fed up with paperwork. Its bores me sick. I get anxiety and moods a bit myself.
Continuing successful study with Open University for a BEng degree: mainly interested in artificial intelligence, artificial consciousness, voice synthesis and aesthetics of singing voice and musical instruments as I'd like to be able to see artificial singing devloped on computers to enable long dead singers, for instance, to be 'recreated' and 'sing' songs they never had time to do in their lives: the simulation of moving images of virtual people is much more advanced and simpler than voice synthesis so I hope it will eventually be possible to create virtual entertainers of various kinds, probably covincingly human-like robots too in our lifetimes certainly if not within 20 yrs as some predict. Also, it would be interesting to see whether its possible to create artificial voices that surpass the voices of real singers in beauty and skill: I think this is possible as I can imagine voices more beautiful than any I've ever heard and I can hear these voices with my minds ear as it were but I'd like to be able to create them for real using voice synthesis: I think thats a lifetimes' work though and it will require the efforts of dozens if not hundreds of people. Currently, even speech synthesis is an immature technology and not particularly good so synthesising singing voices is still out of the question for the time being, and the aesthetics of singing voices and speech are not well understood. I believe that the beauty of the voice is determined by mathematical patterns in its harmonics and would like to discover exactly what these patterns are and how to optimise them. Beautiful people tend to sing more beautifully than other people so I'd like to find out why that is too, although the correlation between good looks and voice beauty is way less that perfect.
Black people appear to sing better than white people in general, especially black men so it would be nice to find out why that is. Elvis and Karen Carpenter were among the exceptions: white people with beautiful voices although Elvis sang poorly a lot of the time in the 70s. I heard a New Years Eve '76 show of Elvis on a bootleg video tape but it was the best performance he ever gave, surpisingly considering how little time he had left to live but he didn't fall apart until the following May when his liver started to get critical. Elvis still looked OK and sounded his best in Dec '76 contrary to all the crap you read in the newspapers. His discography includes a lot of rubbish but the best of it is marvellous, especially on vinyl LP, whereas CDs lose much of his vocal quality due to the massive low level distortion characteristics they exhibit. I think CDs ruined music for more than a whole generation of youth because of their very unpleasant sound quality. Poeple who don't play LPs don't realize how terrible CDs sound. Even a £20 s/h mono turntable sounds better than a £1,000 CD player.
Continuing successful study with Open University for a BEng degree: mainly interested in artificial intelligence, artificial consciousness, voice synthesis and aesthetics of singing voice and musical instruments as I'd like to be able to see artificial singing devloped on computers to enable long dead singers, for instance, to be 'recreated' and 'sing' songs they never had time to do in their lives: the simulation of moving images of virtual people is much more advanced and simpler than voice synthesis so I hope it will eventually be possible to create virtual entertainers of various kinds, probably covincingly human-like robots too in our lifetimes certainly if not within 20 yrs as some predict. Also, it would be interesting to see whether its possible to create artificial voices that surpass the voices of real singers in beauty and skill: I think this is possible as I can imagine voices more beautiful than any I've ever heard and I can hear these voices with my minds ear as it were but I'd like to be able to create them for real using voice synthesis: I think thats a lifetimes' work though and it will require the efforts of dozens if not hundreds of people. Currently, even speech synthesis is an immature technology and not particularly good so synthesising singing voices is still out of the question for the time being, and the aesthetics of singing voices and speech are not well understood. I believe that the beauty of the voice is determined by mathematical patterns in its harmonics and would like to discover exactly what these patterns are and how to optimise them. Beautiful people tend to sing more beautifully than other people so I'd like to find out why that is too, although the correlation between good looks and voice beauty is way less that perfect.
Black people appear to sing better than white people in general, especially black men so it would be nice to find out why that is. Elvis and Karen Carpenter were among the exceptions: white people with beautiful voices although Elvis sang poorly a lot of the time in the 70s. I heard a New Years Eve '76 show of Elvis on a bootleg video tape but it was the best performance he ever gave, surpisingly considering how little time he had left to live but he didn't fall apart until the following May when his liver started to get critical. Elvis still looked OK and sounded his best in Dec '76 contrary to all the crap you read in the newspapers. His discography includes a lot of rubbish but the best of it is marvellous, especially on vinyl LP, whereas CDs lose much of his vocal quality due to the massive low level distortion characteristics they exhibit. I think CDs ruined music for more than a whole generation of youth because of their very unpleasant sound quality. Poeple who don't play LPs don't realize how terrible CDs sound. Even a £20 s/h mono turntable sounds better than a £1,000 CD player.
