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the primetime sublime
The primeTime sublime Community Orchestra was formed by Paul Minotto in 2000. It mixes modern music with jazz, rock, world music, country and film music styles.
discography
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the prime-time
sublime: ( ) (2003, cd, usa, private release) |
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the primetime
sublime community orchestra: a life in a day of a mircoorganism (2004, cd, usa, private release) |
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the pTsCO: songs that will never win a grammy (2005, cd, usa, corporate blob records cbr 003) |
random notes
January 2004, Paul Minotto wrote:
(drum roll please...)may 2005
SONGS THAT WILL NEVER WIN A GRAMMY
The New pTsCO CD
brought to YOU by Corporate Blob Records - 8 pop songs (and 1 instrumental)
subverted beyond the commercial realm.
All the vocals were digitally manufactured with an IBM personal computer and the
latest voice synthesis technology developed by AT&T and the Yamaha Corporation.
Mastering by Andy VanDette at Masterdisk Studios, New York City.
YOU GET:
- Curb Your God
The Grand Opening Number featuring 7 singers advocating the virtues of limiting
the influence of oneıs External Transcendent Moral Authority. (well, maybe not)
Note the quotes: a fragment of What the World Needs Now by Burt Bacharach
sung by a robot and the Ken-L-Ration Dog Food Jingle ("My Dog's Better
Than Your Dog...") which occurs during the last section in the low brass.
- I Want You
A love song - a sort of pathologically obsessed recomposition beyond recognition
of Billy Joel's I Love You Just The Way You Are
with Sting's Every Breath You Take. (well, maybe not)
- Betty Poptarts
The ballad of the record with contributions by Richard Nixon, Hillary Clinton,
both George Bushes, a group of TV commercial announcers, some evangelist I canıt
remember the name of, Betty and Ken.
Refers to those individuals who look for paths to happiness outside of
themselves in ideas of a political, religious or materialistic nature,
pre-organized for effortless convenience which enables one to escape from the
real issues which are within oneself.
- Lesson 1
English as a 2nd language for nonearthlings taught by native speakers.
- Dance of the Bouncing Hornballs
A kind-of-but-not-really interlude: the instrumental track of the record.
- Just Do Me Tonight
Picture if you will, a man, a lonely man who sits at the same seat in the same
neighborhood bar night after night. He doesnıt have many friends and is unable
to give or receive love - a junkyard of memories and unresolved emotions. At the
end of the night he "scores" with a big, boobed, blonde bimbo from Brooklyn.
Recorded live in the lounge at Murphyıs Sea Bay Inn, Normandy Beach, New Jersey.
- Hannibal Lecterıs BBQ
Progressive Rock so progressive it isnıt Rock anymore.
What if Hannibal Lecter invited you over for a neighborhood barbeque one sunny,
Saturday afternoon?
- Rainbow Seeds of Mass Destruction
What if Samuel Beckett wrote a screenplay for a Disney movie about a cockroach
who became president?
A song of political propaganda gone awry.
The line ³Jesus was a Republican² got edited out for aesthetic, not religious or
political reasons.
The 2nd half is an electronic soundscape of a nuclear fallout with TV commercial
announcements. Advertising of commodities during nuclear fallout may seem absurd
to most; but remember: comparable to the World Cup or the Super Bowl, Armageddon
will be televised and commercial time will be very expensive.
- It Will Be Over Before Ya Know It
An inspirational song of joy and hope designed to uplift the wrinkled hearts of
the masses and create eternal peace, love and understanding throughout the world
and itıs neighbors. (well, maybe not)
-- Info: Paul Minotto
20050901
What
Do Star Wars, Luciano Pavarotti and an Orchestra of Clowns Have
In Common?
Robots
have come along way since the intelligent, tin cans on wheels of the mid-20th
century. Today, robots assist
handicapped people, build cars, perform microsurgery, clean rugs and perhaps one
day will fight wars for humans. And
why not entertainment?
"The
idea is not to recreate Puccini or Wagner," says Paul Minotto, composer and
founder of the primeTime sublime Community Orchestra, an alternative classical
ensemble that uses computers and wears costumes during a performance. "This
will be a contemporary opera performed and sung by robots."
Minotto
read a story about Yoshii Tagu, a computer programmer and inventor in Tokyo, and
his experiments with altering and extending the capabilities of commercially
available robots such as AIBO, the robot dog made by Japan's Sony Corporation.
"One
of the robots Yoshii was working with was a Wakamaru, a household robot
developed by the Mitsubishi Corporation. This robot can talk," says
Minotto.
"I
was beginning to work with voice synthesis software at the time and approached
Yoshii with the possibility of making a Wakamaru or an AIBO sing."
In
the past, one of the problems of electronically simulated voices had to do with
the synthetic quality of the voice - they sounded like robots. Recent
developments in voice synthesis technology developed by AT&T and the Yamaha
Corporation have changed all that.
"We
are designing the robots for the purpose of singing and acting as in response to
human interaction or other robots," says Minotto.
"Getting
them to sing is the easy part."
While
working out the details of using the singing software in the robots, Minotto and
the primeTime sublime Community Orchestra recorded a new CD which features
vocals sung entirely by a computer.
Songs
That Will Never Win A Grammy is an eclectic mix of pop songs and soundbites with
contributions by Richard Nixon, Hillary Clinton, both George Bushes, and other
celebrities. From the majestic opening of Curb Your God which features 7
different digital singers, to the crooner on Rainbow Seeds of Mass Destruction,
the vocals sound as if by human performers not a machine.
"The
singing on this CD is an example of what the operatic robots will sound like,
but in a pop music context," claims Minotto.
Robots
entertaining humans is not a new idea. In 1992, Dr. Ingo Titze, Director of the
National Center for Voice and Speech in Denver, and one of the world's foremost
vocal physicists created a computerized model of Luciano Pavarotti's voice.
Pavarobotti is a singing robot that has performed with Titze, an accomplished
tenor, in presentations combining science with vocal music.
More recently, Sony developed the SDR-4X - a human-shaped robot which can
sing and dance. It is only 24 inches tall and costs as much as a luxury car.
But
the logistics of creating robots that work together and with humans in an opera
is something else.
"After
we solve the problems of interaction, we have to deal with realism of character
so that the robots have an identity, a personality," says Minotto.
"Maybe
we should program the soprano robot with an inflated ego: a true Prima
Donna."
- End -
-- 2005/12/13 --
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Babies were up for auction on eBay's Chinese subsidiary, Eachnet. Boys were
going for $3,450, while girls cost $1,603... Many people thought that a stain on
a wall in Chicago was actually a miraculous apparition of the Virgin Mary... A
woman in Afghanistan was stoned to death for adultery... A Rhode Island man was
arrested after he offered an undercover policewoman T-bone steaks in exchange
for sex... The Girl Scouts were suing people who didn't pay for their cookies...
Doctors in Belgium treated a fifteen-year-old Iraqi girl for leg wounds caused
by a cluster bomb, then sent the bill to the U.S. embassy... The Clovis, New
Mexico police locked down a middle school, closed off several streets, and
placed officers on rooftops before discovering that what they thought was a
weapon carried by a student was actually a thirty-inch burrito...
...Florida
police were looking for a naked man who steals into the homes of elderly women
late at night and tickles their feet... People in Zanzibar were living in fear
of a sexually rapacious, sodomy-prone goblin named Popo Bawa... Dr. W. David
Hager, the George W. Bush-appointed adviser to the FDA and a vocal opponent of
emergency contraception, abortion, and pre-marital sex, was accused by his
ex-wife of anally raping her on a regular basis over many years. Hager is the
author of the books "As Jesus Cared for Women" and, with his wife,
"Stress and the Woman's Body."... American funeral homes were earning
frequent-flier miles every time they shipped a corpse... In the West Bank,
Israeli soldiers broke into the home of a Palestinian family so that they could
watch a soccer game... An Australian woman was arrested for attempting to bring
fifty-one tropical fish into the country hidden in her skirt... Berlin police,
acting on a kidnapping tip, stopped a car and pulled a man from the car's trunk;
it turned out the man, wearing only a thong and collar, was a voluntary sex
slave... A woman in Pennsylvania offered her newborn baby's clothes as a
billboard for advertising. "Everyone looks at babies," she said...
UNICEF released a short film that shows an airstrike attack on a village of
Smurfs...
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of the house after her parrot cried out the name of Mr. Ficker's mistress, Uta.
"It's just me and my parrot now," said Petra... He acted on divine
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'George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq...' And I did."... In Maryland the
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"They won't eat now," Sierra said of bears. "They won't eat a
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...British
potato farmers held protests against the Oxford English Dictionary; they were
offended by the term "couch potato."... At the U.S. Justice
Department, the $8,000 modesty curtains used to cover the bareness of the
statues of Majesty of Justiceand Spirit of Justice were removed, once again
exposing an aluminum nipple... A Zamboni driver in Morristown, New Jersey, was
charged with drunk Zamboni driving... Former Canadian Minister of Defense Paul
Hellyer called on Canadian Parliament to hold hearings on the best way to deal
with extraterrestrials. "I'm so concerned about what the consequences might
be of starting an intergalactic war," said Hellyer, "that I just think
I had to say something."... In Muncie, Indiana, a paraplegic man was on his
way to Mount Zion Baptist Church when his motorized wheelchair became stuck on
some train tracks. He was thrown ten yards and killed by a thirty-eight-car
freight train... A Cambodian man found his mother after being separated from her
for thirty years, then learned that she was also the mother of his wife... The
Environmental Protection Agency was working on ways to limit the radioactivity
of the planned Yucca Mountain, Nevada, nuclear-waste dump for the next 1 million
years... Police in Moldova were looking for a man who robs banks by hypnotizing
the tellers...The Vatican announced that men with "deep-rooted homosexual
tendencies" may not become Roman Catholic priests. Men who experienced
"transitory"homosexual tendencies at least three years ago, however,
may... The community council of Perthshire, Scotland, forced a developer to
change the layout of his housing development so that it would not disturb
fairies... In Manchester, New Hampshire, a man named Ronald MacDonald was
arrested for stealing $133 from a safe at a Wendy's restaurant... There was a
shortage of Santas in Perth, Australia; current Santas said that the risk of
litigation was too great. "Once upon a time you'd walk through the mall
saying 'Ho, ho, ho, Merry Christmas'," said Santa John Gomez, "but now
you say nothing."
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