RE: baby voices

["Paul Weissman" <paul-mailinglists@nioterra.com>]

michael,

did you get any interesting responses to this query besides what wasa sent
to the list?  i'm fascinated... definitely want to know more.

thanks,
paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Peters [mailto:mpeters@csi.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 1:35 AM
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com; acoustic-ecology@sfu.ca;
> CT-Collective@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: ot: baby voices
>
>
> do any fathers/mothers among us have recordings of their kid's voices 
>when
> they were very young? when they couldn't talk yet but tried to?
>
> I'm fascinated by small kids' pre-language 'language', their expressivity
> and emotionality - and especially by the dramatic effect you get when you
> slow those recordings down to a normal grown-up voice pitch: try it and 
>it
> will make your hair stand on end (especially with voices of angry kids 
>:-)
>
> I'd like to research and experiment with this effect and, with enough
> material, make a composition (some kind of opera for slowed-down
> babies :-).
> unfortunately I don't have any kids and not many recordings either, so 
>I'd
> be very grateful for any recordings you could send me. please contact me
> off-list if you think you've got something. your kids might become 
>famous.
>
>
> = michael peters
> = computer graphics + electronic music
> = www.mpeters.de/mpeweb
> = www.mp3.com/veloopity
>