Post by EddieCheivz on Mar 16, 2023 18:51:49 GMT
Mark: "I wanted to ask you also about the vocal treatments, 'cause maybe this comes back to what you were saying about being bored with the limitations of your instrument, or trying to find new sounds. So I was really struck by the way sometimes the vocals are very disguised, I mean, particularly on 'Kid A', there's almost a Stephen Hawking sound to the vocal. Is that something you were deliberately trying to do?"
Colin: "With regards to Thom... I think, I suppose, he's obviously... he's someone who's very into the fine voice that he has, and at the same time, you know, he's always looking for new ways to try and express different personae, and a way of doing that is by treating the voice, you know, and the... I don't know which track..."
Jonny: "'Kid A'."
Mark: "'Kid A' was the one which struck me..."
Colin: "Oh yeah."
Mark: "It does all sorts of things."
Colin: "Well, that was a vocoder whose notes... he sang through a vocoder, and the notes were triggered by the Ondes Martenot that (to Jonny) you were playing at the same time as he was singing, wasn't it?"
Jonny: "Yeah, that's right."
Colin: "That was pretty mad."
Colin: "With regards to Thom... I think, I suppose, he's obviously... he's someone who's very into the fine voice that he has, and at the same time, you know, he's always looking for new ways to try and express different personae, and a way of doing that is by treating the voice, you know, and the... I don't know which track..."
Jonny: "'Kid A'."
Mark: "'Kid A' was the one which struck me..."
Colin: "Oh yeah."
Mark: "It does all sorts of things."
Colin: "Well, that was a vocoder whose notes... he sang through a vocoder, and the notes were triggered by the Ondes Martenot that (to Jonny) you were playing at the same time as he was singing, wasn't it?"
Jonny: "Yeah, that's right."
Colin: "That was pretty mad."
Turning the voice into an instrumental texture, Other-ising it via effects, allowed Yorke "to sing things I wouldn't normally sing. On "Kid A", the lyrics are absolutely brutal and horrible and I wouldn't be able to sing them straight. But talking them and having them vocodered through Johnny's Ondes Martenot, so that I wasn't even responsible for the melody... that was great, it felt like you're not answering to this thing."
EDIT: I agree low notes from "Kid A" sounds (the little that can be appreciated with that huge vocal effect above) bit as him doing that getting down with his voice for the way it carries and for the weight and entonation on the voice in some different vocal areas from a singer, where some subtle vocal devices show off easily in which registry he's singing, just I'm not 100% certain about they are shift-pitched or not.