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RJA 10b

The use of auto tune has two sides, when it is used as it was intended as a new instrument of technology and then when auto tune is used as a handicap for weak singers. When auto tune is used by musicians that know how to use it, they can create new and interesting sounds that would otherwise be impossible to obtain without the use of auto tune. Some prime examples are Imogen Heap with their song "Hide and Seek" and artist like T-Paine that use auto tune to create music that no one else could do without this technology. They understand and use it correctly. The wrong way is when artist like Brittany Spears, Paris Hilton, and almost any other friendly/attractive face has used it when they have trouble hitting the correct note or pitch, or they are just feeling lazy. This promotes poor musicianship and allows people that have no right being near a microphone be able to sound like they were singing opera since they were born, with a little robot in their voice. This also gives record company's a near limitless supply of "talent", and i use the term talent loosely. They see auto tune as a way to earn fast money with records. All they need is a song writer, a producer, and a pretty face and they have the mass public buying the single off of itunes, giving them millions of dollars. This also gives real musicians a trouble that refuse to use auto tune (symbolized by a blue ribbon) because they must spend a longer time recording and it won't always be right on pitch. While it gives the vocals a more human feel, it takes a much, much longer time to complete a track.

RJA 10a

The use of auto tune has two sides, when it is used as it was intended as a new instrument of technology and then when auto tune is used as a handicap for weak singers, which the record company's use to make lot's of money, create a quick turn around for new talent, and to keep up with trends. While artist that don't use it must have longer recording sessions to get the right voice track and actually spend years practicing their voice.

RJA 8a

RJA 7c

I am planning on interviewing a few people, all musicians. The first person I have in mind is my music teacher who is helping me with music theory, Stu Miller. He graduated from Metro in 2002 and has been studying music for over 25 years. He has also been in the recording business for about ten and understands and even sometimes will use auto-tune. I am hoping to conduct the interview in late October when he has the time, I am trying to work around his schedule.

I would also like to make a poll on facebook or myspace about autotune and see how the general public feel about it.

RJA 7b

I liked using http://www.icerocket.com/ to help me find people's personal opinions on music and autotune through their blogs. I would type in music+industry+autotune and it gave me this http://www.icerocket.com/search?tab=blog&fr=h&q=music%2Bindustry%2Bauto+tune&x=0&y=0 on Oct 2 2009.

RJA 7a

I mainly use google.com and amazon.com, but lately I have been using http://books.google.com/books

I know google is not the greatest search engine for finding specific sources but it starts you off in the right direction and usually allows me to find better sources the deeper I go in.

I use amazon.com for researching what books might work, it basically works as a faster library for me so I can read the descriptions of each book really fast.

I use googlebooks for citing and quoting some of the material I find on amazon.

RJA 6a

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1877372,00.html
Josh Tyrangiel, Auto-Tune: Why Pop Music Sounds Perfect. Time. Feb 5, 2009.

I typed "autotune" into google on 9/24/09. 5.

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1614919/20090629/t_pain.jhtml

Kyle Anderson, What Is Auto-Tune?. Mtv. Jun 29. 2009.

I typed autontune in google on 9/24/09. 4.

RJA 6b

http://seansschoolblog1.blogspot.com/2009/09/rja-4a.html

RJA 6c

http://www.protopage.com/szeidler

RJA 5c

http://chriseng1020blog.blogspot.com/

http://dominiqueeng1020blog.blogspot.com/2009/09/rja-4b-writing-search-strings.html#comment-form

(this last link I did was for the wrong class time by accident, but I kept it anyway)

http://eceng1020.blogspot.com/2009/09/rja-4a-generating-key-works.html?showComment=1253646276974#c7016171953385545335

RJA 5b

Lambert, Constant. Music ho! A study of music in decline. New York, October House (1979).

Krasilovsky, William and Shemel, Sidney. John M. Gross. This business of music: the definitive guide to the music industry 9th edition. Watson-Guptil Productions.Mew York, NY. 2003.

RJA 5a

Levine, Robert. The Death of High Fedility. Rollingstone.com. Dec 27, 2007.

Abril, Carlos and Gault, Brent. Perspectives on the Music Program: Opening Doors to the School Community. Music Educators Journal; May2007, Vol. 93 Issue 5, p32-37, 6p, 1 bw

RJA 4c

RJA 4b

RJA 4a

Keywords:

Auto-tune, autotune, auto+tune, record+label, music+industry, pop+stars, kanye+west+auto+tune, autotune+live+performance, album+sales,vocal production, synthetic vocals, vocoder, t-pain (haha), step-tuners

vocal+production, synthetic+vocals, vocoder, t-pain, step-tuners

RJA 3a

(Look at delicious account)

www.delicious.com/szeidelr

RJA 3b

I may need to broaden my original idea because I am finding lots of information against the use of auto tune but aside from easy money I can not find much for the use of it. I was thinking that I could go deeper into the history of music, and the history of auto tune, and with an educated guess I can try and predict the future of the music industry if we continue to use auto tune or if we get rid of it completely. So I want to focus more on the past, future, and ask around to see if I can find anyhthing pro with auto tuned music,

Edit: I may also need to go deeper into the recording and mastering of studio songs. Discuss how they are different from the past and if it is a good or bad thing.

RJA 3b

RJA 3c

Devloping Research Question

How do autotuned musicians perform in concert? What does the record company do when they have to perform live in front of a audience or for television? How is recording different from the past? For better or worse?

RJA 2a

Some brainstorm ideas that I have for my topic (the use of auto-tune in popular music) are:

• How do the record labels view auto-tune?
• Why do the artist use auto-tune?
• How did auto-tune become invented?
• Why was their a need for it in the first place?
• How did auto-tune get it's start?
• How do the artist that use auto-tune sound live in concert?
• Do the artist's fans care or notice the auto-tune?
• What are the pro's in auto-tune? The con's of auto-tune?
• Why do so many musicians hate it?
• Why do so many people use it?

RJA 2b

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The topic I have chosen is the use of auto-tune a benefit or a handicap? I choose this because I am very passionate about this subject. My personal belief is that if you need the handicap of a computer to help you sing then you need to practice more. I believe that I can take my bias out of this and look at the other side. I want to figure out why this is used and the debate between musicians and producers on this subject. Why some people like it and others don't. I have a very strong hate for auto-tune and I am very interested in researching the other view of this subject.

I don't know much about how auto-tune actually works, but now what it does. A computer will change incorrect pitches to fit the correct key of the song. This technology can fix even the worst of mistakes, making talent and hard work mean almost nothing. I'm not sure on this, but I think that we have the technology for people to use auto-tune even during live shows now. I watched a documentary called, "The Day the Music Died" and it had a brief spot on how it works and the process of it. It also touches on the subject of record labels which I thought was really interesting. While some artist use it as a handicap others like T-Paine use it as a instrument of technology. This is mainly used in pop and hip-hop songs, so classical music is not affected by this.

What I don't know, as I stated before, is how exactly the computer can determine when a pitch is sang wrong in a certain key. I am really interested in how the whole process works. I also want to find out how the use of auto-tune is used in live shows works and if it is not used, how the singer makes up for a lack of talent. I want to find out the views of the people that are for the use of this program, the view of the record label and the view of the performer. I also want to know what the fans of the auto-tune pop performers think, or what they are not thinking. Do they hear the auto-tune? Do they know what auto-tune is? Do they even care?

RJA 2c

http://delicious.com/szeidler

RJA 1

Some scholarly and academic interests on which I might base my research and writing for class this semester are anything music related like:

• Electronic keyboards vs. acoustic keyboards. Their pros and cons and preference.
  
• Music video games (Guitar Hero, Rock Band) and how they affect kids in a positive or negative way with real instruments and music listening.
• Styles of music and how are they progressing or declining over time.
• Is technology ruining music?
  
• Is the use of auto-tune a benefit or a handicap? (favorite subject)
  
• Should D.J's and techno producers be considered musicians?
• Should rappers be considered musicians?
• Is some music really better than others or is it all just subjective?