COMPOSER SABRINA PENA YOUNG | MUSIC TECHNOLOGY | FILM | CLASSICAL | OPERA

Life After Autotune - Pop Music Industry Few DAW plug-ins today produce as much debate among audio engineers and fans as Auto-Tune. In a nutshell, Auto-Tune is an audio tool that allows an engineer to “tweak” pitchy performances by subtly (or sometimes blatantly) altering a singer’s performance and fixing out-of-tune notes. How does a simple plug-in like Auto-Tune create such incredible controversy?             Auto-Tune has very interesting, and decidedly unmusical, beginnings. Musician Andy Hildebrand developed Auto-Tune by “analyzing seismic data” when he worked for the oil industry. Being a musician, he decided to use this technology for music, developed Auto-Tune over a period of a few weeks (Prisco, 2014). Pop music was never the same             Using Auto-Tune in the music industry has a few competing camps – the purists, the engineers, and the hacks. In one cam...

Google Auto Answer Results on the Day the MOAB Fell on Afghanistan. Wanted to see what the Zeigeist was thinking today, using Google as my seer. Watch the video, come to your own conclusions. This was a social experiment.