Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Bycicle Built for Two Thousand

This sounds weird, but there is this site that put together over 2000 voices of people recorded on the internet assembled to sing the song Daisy Bell.
"Bicycle Built For 2,000 is comprised of 2,088 voice recordings collected via Amazon's Mechanical Turk web service. Workers were prompted to listen to a short sound clip, then record themselves imitating what they heard"
"The song "Daisy Bell," originally written by Harry Dacre in 1892, was
made famous in 1962 by John Kelly, Max Mathews, and Carol Lockbaum as the first example of musical speech synthesis. In contrast to the 1962 version, Bicycle Built For 2,000 was synthesized with a distributed system of human voices from all over the world". It is the song of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Bicycle Built for Two Thousand from Aaron on Vimeo.


This is the link to the site that I am talking about

Source: http://www.bicyclebuiltfortwothousand.com/

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