Mvt∆n†•br∑∆kz•#17••• OH THE HUMANITY!

This should’ve been my entry for MutantBreaks#17
but I missed the deadline by almost 14 days. :frowning: :smiley:

If i counted right, most of the time this is in 17/8.
LBP is also 17 and you can find multiples and fractions of 17 in almost every setting. :smiley:

Finest attraction is of course the Vocoder realized just with Renoise-DSPs.
For that i dug deep in the Renoise-Forum an found this thread from 2009 by @nxpnsv and in it the work over by @flapjackspeeder (Joltz)

I recovered the file »renoise-vocoder2.xrns« with the waybackmachine and from that rebuild it to my needs and tweaked the frequency bands. The voice samples are done with Apples say command using the voice of Alex. I then split up syllables and sometimes vocals and consonants,
to get the timing right. It almost works, but since it’s still hard to understand here are the lyrics:

Oh the humanity
quite the short history
compared to was has been

lost in space certaintly
damned to be sentiently
questionig everything

Oh the humanity
thinks it is at the peak
self centered definitely

always persuing control
when it is after all
just rational animals

General idea is, to let a computer sing about his views on humanity, which should fit the theme of the competition, or did i miss it?

There is also more happening in the samples. There is for example a quite metallic ride sound (very prominent) that is
realized with ring filters. Two of the drumsets (ZIMT- and Bossadrums) i recorded from old radio recordings. But the rest i let you discover for your self: twist-f-OhTheHumanity-MBC#17.xrns (2.9 MB)

A good portion of working on this song happened while traveling through france on holidays.
I was very optimistic to finish till the 15th but it was still holidays. So here it is for you to enjoy.
Love to hear you’re opinion on this, even though it’s not in the vote :slight_smile:

I will listen to your entries now and later on, i wanted to finish this first, to not be demotivated.
Thanks for running this competition @xenobaba and for pushing me to finish this indirectly.

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