Theory about classical singing and warbly vibrato
Vibrato in certain acoustics carries your musical message farther, and more generously.
Classical musicians have taken so long to adjust to the recording studio microphone - as long as stage actors have taken to adapt to the lens.
I can’t stand the warbles - the repertoire originally was intended for intimate small audiences, but grew for multiple reasons. I like to imagine Schubert’s original evenings sung by proficient amateurs with purity and meaning. Minus the technical necessities of yore.
I dunno - Sting or Elkie Brooks/Barbara Streisand/Diana Krall/ David Gilmour
(, Fri 22 Nov 2024, 22:51, Reply)
this
The horrible Hyacinth Bucket opera style was a pompous nightmare. My old singing teacher said that Italian school was less horrific and natural which presumably means that this warble style is NOT necessary for projection. I mean the sound of babies crying is (supposedly) designed to be heard. What a fucking awful sound.
Not convinced. Opera is utterly awful.
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simbosan Hello you cunt, Sat 23 Nov 2024, 6:55,
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I can tolerate (and I mean tolerate!) this style
Where to my ear the note sits at the correct pitch for a significant percentage of the time, and makes periodic deviations away from it, in this case it sounds like it's slightly higher.
What I can't bear is when the note wavers both above and below the correct pitch without staying on it for any period of time. The overwhelming impression is that the singer can't hold the note so they're compensating by wavering about somewhere near it, going both sharp and flat.
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Sat 23 Nov 2024, 7:22,
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Doesn’t bother me.
Then again it’s nothing compared to the warble you hear, usually in adverts*, when the singer is trying to sing more softly than they’re able to and just sounds breathy and insipid.
*Like whichever one it is doing the rounds with that man butchering Burt Bacharach.
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jonbob loves you, Sat 23 Nov 2024, 14:12,
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I like classical singing and opera
didn't always (preferred choral singing), but now I can listen to hours of it
vibrato can be good or bad
would be surprised if recordings of Schubert by non-classical singers aren't difficult to find
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custard, Sat 23 Nov 2024, 16:35,
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A song about farmers.
I wish I'd thought of this a couple of days ago when it would have felt topical.
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Ambegris likes his tea stirred anti-clockwise, Fri 22 Nov 2024, 22:01,
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I loved the song when I was a kid but I really REALLY misheard the lyrics
I always thought he was saying
"One, leather 'at" like a northern person singing about their leather hat.
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Fri 22 Nov 2024, 8:57,
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I've got one of the original pressings.
I had to send off a postal order in the post and wait nearly a week for it to be delivered.
Meanwhile, I quite like this cover by Laibach:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlEOsXG619w
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Varmint, Fri 22 Nov 2024, 19:54,
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Cube
I know. My last two posts have been movies.
But this is also a classic, so I'm just pretending to give a fuck.
Enjoy :)
(, Wed 20 Nov 2024, 21:01, Reply)
SwearSky – Bluesky profanity, as it happens
NSFW
I made this!
Since most of us have moved to Bluesky now, I have made this: a flow of foul language uttered by Bluesky users. You can click on the expletive to see the original post.
NSFW as it literally yells swear words at you.
(, Wed 20 Nov 2024, 12:33, Reply)
It could be interesting to compare and contrast the frequency and types of profanity
between the Truth Socials and Blueskies, Mastodons and whatnot.
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brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Wed 20 Nov 2024, 19:51,
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Truth Social just a stream of the worst, most poorly-spelled slurs you've ever read.
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Zuowan, Thu 21 Nov 2024, 23:08,
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This is great
I was wondering how the vocabulary would change as different countries cane online during the day, and a friend proposed a 3D globe that world show where the posts were coming from. Does the API support any sort of geolocation?
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Wed 20 Nov 2024, 22:06,
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The only swears you'll see are the ones that I recorded, which are all in English. As far as I know there's no geolocation from the Jetstream firehose of posts, but some of them are tagged with the language.
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Fake tits:
"Après disons que le problème est que sous prétexte de se moderniser ils se sont tous uniformisés, il n’y a plus les petits détails qui donnaient de l’originalité."
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Thu 21 Nov 2024, 9:29,
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Seems bugged - going to click a cloud makes it move out of the way.
If you manage to "trap" it at the top, left click does nothing, though right-click "open in new tab" does open the messages.
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Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Thu 21 Nov 2024, 12:17,
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How many exoduses have there been from twitter at this point?
When Trump was banned people moved to Truth social, when Musk bought it first (before he'd fucked it up yet) there was the exodus to Mastodon and then after Musk thoroughly broke the platform the exodus to BlueSky.
I'm surprised more people didn't just stop using social media. Twitter is a shithole and so are all platforms attempting to emulate it. It's just a machine where level headed people go in and nuts come out. No exceptions.
(, Fri 22 Nov 2024, 8:08, Reply)
STARSHIP FLIGHT 6 AND 2ND BOOSTER CATCH - LIVE
LabPadre. Better streams will be available (their live cams always glitch out when something interesting happens). That's if it's not scrubbed.
Go SpaceX! Fuck Elon Musk!
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brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Tue 19 Nov 2024, 21:40,
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The fuckers have launched!
Catch attempt aborted. :/
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brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Tue 19 Nov 2024, 22:11,
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You hope that the ship that launched and crash landed last night
will at some point in the future reconstruct and refuel itself so it can crash again?
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brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Wed 20 Nov 2024, 14:39,
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I thought that's what you meant but I wasn't completely sure.
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brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Wed 20 Nov 2024, 19:52,
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Space might be fun
But that doesn't stop Musk from being a total cunt.
(, Wed 20 Nov 2024, 11:43, Reply)
He's this generation's von Braun.
...wrt being a Nazi cunt.
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brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Wed 20 Nov 2024, 19:53,
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How very dare you!!!
Wernher was an actual rocket scientist, Elon bought his way into it...
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Thu 21 Nov 2024, 0:09,
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It's fun to diminish Skum's role but not entirely accurate.
It's clear from his discussions with Tim Dodd that he's competent when discussing rocket design and understands what his rockets actually do in terms of the engineering and such. Much is made of the stupid demands he makes of his design teams (e.g. 'make it pointy'), but von Braun also designed some silly rockets in his time.
And, you know, he had actual slaves who he literally worked to death.
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brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Thu 21 Nov 2024, 16:02,
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He's a fascistic anti-union idiot
and I count 3 accidental deaths of his employees, and dozens of injuries. That's very bad.
Not quite Nazi concentration camp bad though, eh.
www.history.army.mil/html/bookshelves/resmat/wwii/special-features/VE-day/documents/V-2_and_Slave_Labor_Article.pdf
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brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Thu 21 Nov 2024, 20:31,
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Well that refreshed my memory.
I do wonder what Elon would have done in '40s Germany though.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Fri 22 Nov 2024, 13:29,
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Nicely animated, but who calls their dog Steven?
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 20 Nov 2024, 2:38,
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My dog is called Gordon.
We have a neighbour with a dog called Paul.
(, Wed 20 Nov 2024, 7:06, Reply)
Pets with human names are the best
We’ve had dogs named Bob, Emily and Toby and cats named Penny, Doris and Lillian
Although, I would probably prefer the “Stephen” spelling to “Steven”
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LP, Wed 20 Nov 2024, 7:54,
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We called our dog Liberace
Because he was the pianist
#bennyhilljokes
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 20 Nov 2024, 8:01,
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I know it looks like a woman and her dog
But they’re just animated drawings. It’s a big saving on pet food
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 20 Nov 2024, 10:47,
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Probably the front runner
Unless someone has a Doberman called Elizabeth
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 20 Nov 2024, 11:04,
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My cat is called Steven
But you're right, a dog called Steven is ridiculous.
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VicJameson : fucking internet virgins since, Wed 20 Nov 2024, 15:46,
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The hairy psychopath that allows us to live in his house is called Malcolm, though that isn't his fault, the RSPCA named him.
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antmulder Flick your icefloss, Fri 22 Nov 2024, 11:40,
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Half Life fever dream is ridiculous
in a good way.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Tue 19 Nov 2024, 16:32,
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do you wanna be in my gang? matt gaetz edition
I made this!
whenever i see Matt Gaetz, i cannot help but think of another man who liked young girls...
(this will probably make no sense to americans 🤷♀️)
#deepfake
#mattgaetz
(, Mon 18 Nov 2024, 19:07, Reply)
I see what you mean, works well.
Ew
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Mon 18 Nov 2024, 21:24,
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. . . that's my soul up there . . .
. . . american here. Gaetzy Glitter refence understood!
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luvtub, Mon 18 Nov 2024, 21:52,
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I had a boss who was sax player in Glitter's band the time the story first broke in 97
They were travelling to Newcastle for a show on his anniversary tour, and he told me Glitter called a band meeting and gave them his oath that the allegation was completely false.
He lasted two more concerts then cancelled the tour. Didn't pay his musicians for the last gigs, but none of them sued as they didn't want their name associated with him.
That Gaetz looks a wrong-un
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 18 Nov 2024, 23:53,
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A lickspittle described Gaetz as an accomplished attorney.
Quite something, considering that he's never argued a case. I assume if he did those shifty eyebrows and huge botoxed forehead wouldn't do him any favours. I don't think a comparison with Gadd is fair though: he preferred them much younger and as far as I know he didn't openly brag about his 'conquests' (urgh) to his coworkers.
Matt Gaetz is a piece of shit, but Gadd was another kind of depravity altogether.
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jonbob loves you, Tue 19 Nov 2024, 1:58,
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As MAMA CORNETTE Used To Say
NSFW
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brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Mon 18 Nov 2024, 14:34,
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Flatter than a plate of piss
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brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Mon 18 Nov 2024, 17:19,
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Freaky 60's light bulb
Pretty interesting look at the technology involved in Balafire lamps.
(, Mon 18 Nov 2024, 9:59, Reply)
Thank you that was great
Bingeing on his other videos now, he has a good style.
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antmulder Flick your icefloss, Mon 18 Nov 2024, 12:31,
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