Polysics (named after a Korg synthesizer) is the fourth Japanese band to visit SA in two weeks, but this is the last chance we’ll get to see them in the present lineup: long -time member Kayo ...
Before T-Pain was using Auto-Tune to buy girls drinks, Franklin D. Roosevelt was using the vocoder to win World War II. In “How to Wreck a Nice Beach,” music critic Dave Tompkins (The Wire, Vibe) ...
If you've listened to pop music in the past 40 years, you've probably heard more than a few songs with a robotic sound. That's thanks to the vocoder, a device invented by Bell Labs, the research ...