In 1993, pioneering Atlanta rapper and producer Peter “MC Shy D” Jones released the upbeat “Fellas What Y’all Want,” which samples Kraftwerk’s “Tour De France.” Jones chose the sample because the song ...

Ye takes a break from posting slurs and swastikas and feuding with the world to leak a work-in-progress version of his new ...

The MELP (Mixed-Excitation Linear Predictive) Vocoder Algorithm is the 2400 bps Federal Standard speech coder. The selection test concentrated on four areas: intelligibility, voice quality, talker ...

Abstract: Recently, neural vocoders have applied signal processing methods to synthesize speech to reduce computational complexity. However, most methods lack the benefits of a data-driven approach ...

WORLD is free software for high-quality speech analysis, manipulation and synthesis. It can estimate Fundamental frequency (F0), aperiodicity and spectral envelope and also generate the speech like ...

The words “influence” and “reference” are closely related, and in any art form, both are often — hopefully usually — an act ...

A handful of Charlotte metal bands and electronic artists gathered under one roof on Saturday, March 15, for a packed house ...

With "Autobahn", Kraftwerk ushered in the age of electronic pop music 50 years ago. To mark the anniversary, we took a closer ...

Stepping into Stage AE on the North Shore on Friday night felt like taking a time machine back to the 1970s — just with way ...

On the new music front, it’s also a very busy week. I highlight 11 new albums below, and Bill tackles more in Indie Basement, including Edwyn Collins, Throwing Muses, Bambara, Étienne de Crécy (ft.

Michał Fundowicz is a tape enthusiast through and through. He runs the Molt Fluid cassette label which unites experimenters ...

The String Cheese Incident welcomed Pigeons Playing Ping Pong and guest Shira Elias to join in on the band's return to L.A. at The Wiltern.