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June 08, 2013

The vocoder, invented by Bell Labs in 1928

"In his recent book How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, author Dave Tompkins tells the story of how a military voice-scrambling technology (the vocoder) became absorbed by civilian pop culture in the form of artificial, robotized vocal effects."

Posted by Ghost of a flea at June 8, 2013 10:47 AM