Live musicians?
It seems organic (so to speak ; ) musicians are in serious danger of being replaced with software.
Song writers are already in peril from Hit Song Science (HSS – sliced music from Barcelona) and now, with Frequency-Domain Singing Articulation Splicing and Shaping looming, it’s the turn of singers.
Vocaloid (synthetic vocals from Japan), "overcomes a major hurdle composers have faced until now due to the limitations that technology has placed on their ability to freely create songs incorporating singing," says Britain’s vocalist.org here.
It goes on, "With this system, the ’singing articulations’ (collections of voice snippets, such as of phrases, and snippets of vocal expression variations like vibrato) needed to reproduce vocals are collected from custom-produced recordings of accomplished singers and put into a database after conversion into frequency domains.
"To synthesize vocal parts, the system retrieves data consisting of voice snippets, applies pitch conversion, and splices and shapes them to form the words of a song as input by the user. As this processing is done at the frequency-domain level, pitch can be easily changed according to the specified melody, and the voice snippets can be spliced in a way that reproduces smooth-flowing words."
Mick Jagger or Enrico Caruso? Who needs them.
