Cedric Bixler-Zavala (11,527 views)

[Platypus]

Cedric Bixler-Zavala (04.11.1974 - )
Years Active: 1992 - present
Associated Acts: Antemasque, At the Drive-In, The Mars Volta
Vocal Range: G♯2 - D6


Significant High Notes:
D6 ("Cygnus... Vismund Cygnus" live 2008)
C6 ("Abortion, the Other White Meat" live KROQ 2005, "Conjugal Burns", "Goliath" live Yahoo! Live Sets 2008, "Take The Veil Cerpin Taxt" live Sonic Mania Festival 2005)
B5 ("Cassandra Gemini" live Philadelphia 2005, "Day of the Baphomets", "Drunkship of Lanterns" live @ the Electric Factory 2005, "Eunuch Provocateur" Promo EP version, "Goliath", "Jacob Van Lennepkade" live Corona 2006, "Meccamputechture", "Tetragrammaton")
B♭5 ("Cygnus... Vismund Cygnus", "Viscera Eyes")
A5 ("Abortion, the Other White Meat" live KROQ 2005, "Agadez", "Cygnus... Vismund Cygnus", "Day of the Baphomets", "Drunkship of Lanterns" live @ the Electric Factory 2005, "Inertiatic ESP" live Dallas 2001, "Jacob Van Lennepkade" live Corona 2006, "Meccamputechture", "Metatron", "The Palpitations Form A Limit", "Regenbogen Stelen van Prostituees" live Fuji Rock Festival 2007, "Ride Like The Devil's Son" Live Melbourne 2015, "Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of)" live Catalyst Club 2006, "Se Dice Bisonte, No Bùfalo", "Siberian Divide", "La Tirania De La Tradiciòn" live Fuji Rock Festival 2007, "Vermicide")
G♯5 ("Boiling Death Request a Body to Rest Its Head On" live Fuji Rock Festival 2007, "Conjugal Burns", "Goliath")
G5 ("Aberinkula", "Askepios", "Calibration", "Cicatriz ESP" live Sao Paulo 2010, "Concertina" alternate version, "Cotopaxi", "Cryptomnesia", "A Day in the Life", "Halo of Nembutals", "Jacob Van Lennepkade" live Corona 2006, "Plant a Nail In the Navel Stream", "Siberian Divide", "La Tirania De La Tradiciòn" live Fuji Rock Festival 2007, "Viscera Eyes", "Wax Simulacra")
F♯5 ("Amongst The Shadows", "Cassandra Gemini", "Day of the Baphomets", "Eriatarka" live XFM Session 2003, "Ilyena", "Imago", "Inertiatic ESP", "L'via L'viaquez" live at The Moore Theater 14/10/2022, "Meccamputechture", "The Palpitations Form A Limit", "Shake is for 8th Graders", "Televators", "Tetragrammaton", "This Apparatus Must Be Unearthed")
F5 ("Agadez", "Blacklight Shine", "Boiling Death Request a Body to Rest Its Head On" live Fuji Rock Festival 2007, "Conjugal Burns", "Drunkship of Lanterns", "Ilyena", "Lapochka", "L'via L'viaquez", "Viscera Eyes")
E5 ("Agadez", "Birthday", "Bottleneck" live Santa Ana 2013, "Cassandra Gemini", "Caught in the Sun", "Cavalettas", "Cicatriz ESP", "Cryptomnesia", "Cygnus... Vismund Cygnus", "Drunkship of Lanterns", "Dyslexicon", "Eunuch Provocateur" Promo EP version, "Eriatarka", "Frances the Mute", "Halo of Nembutals", "Haruspex", "Khamsin", "La Tirania De La Tradiciòn", "Obelisk" live XFM Session 2003, "Metatron", "Molochwalker", "Noir", "Ouroborous", "Paid Vacation Time", "A Plague Upon Your Hissing", "Plant a Nail In the Navel Stream", "Punky Humans", "Regenbogen Stelen van Prostituees" live Fuji Rock Festival 2007, "Ride Like The Devil's Son", "Roulette Dares (The Haunt of)", "Se Dice Bisonte, No Bùfalo", "Shake is for 8th Graders", "Shaman Mantra", "Since We've Been Wrong", "Squat Town", "Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt", "Tarantism", "Tetragrammaton", "Tuberculoids", "Vermicide", "Vigil", "Wax Simulacra", "The Whip Hand", "Whisper to Your Flinch/Peeling Off", "The Widow", "Zed and Two Naughts")
E♭5 ("Aegis", "Askepios", "Blacklight Shine", "Calibration", "Cerulea", "Concertina" alternate version, "Desperate Graves", "...Is Pushing Luck", "Noctourniquet", "Palm Full of Crux", "Postulate", "Shore Story", "This is Traffic Control", "Warren Oates", "The Whip Hand", "Whisper to Your Flinch/Peeling Off")
D5 ("50.000 Kilowatts", "Abortion, the Other White Meat" live KROQ 2005, "Aegis", "Anywhere", "Bimbalaties", "Birthday", "Blank Condolences", "Blue Tag", "Bottleneck" live Santa Ana 2013, "Broken English" Live SWU 2010, "The Burden" live Fresno 2013, "Cassandra Gemini", "Caught in the Sun", "Cicatriz ESP", "Concertina", "Conjugal Burns", "Cotopaxi", "Cut That City", "Cygnus... Vismund Cygnus", "A Day in the Life", "Drunkship of Lanterns", "Ebroglio", "Equus 3", "Eunuch Provocateur", "Eriatarka", "Fahrenheit", "Halo of Nembutals", "Ilyena", "Imago", "In Absentia", "Incetardis", "Inertiatic ESP", "Khamsin", "La Tirania De La Tradiciòn", "L'via L'viaquez", "Miranda That Ghost Just Isn't Holy Anymore", "Multiple Spouse Wounds", "No Case Gain", "Noctourniquet", "Non-Zero Possibility", "One Armed Scissor", "The Palpitations Form A Limit", "Picket Fence Cartel", "A Plague Upon Your Hissing", "Que Dios Te Maldiga Mi Corazon", "Regenbogen Stelen van Prostituees" live Fuji Rock Festival 2007, "Roulette Dares (The Haunt of)", "Sarcophagi", "Se Dice Bisonte, No Bùfalo", "Shaman Mantra", "Speechless", "Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt", "Teflon", "Televators", "Tetragrammaton", "This Apparatus Must Be Unearthed", "Tourmaline", "Tourniquet Man", "Tuberculoids", "Vermicide", "Vicarious Atonement" demo version, "Vigil", "Viscera Eyes", "Warren Oates", "Wax Simulacra", "With Twilight as my Guide")
C♯5 ("Amongst The Shadows", "Blacklight Shine", "Blue Rose of Grand Street" live Anchorage 2013, "Cavalettas", "Circuit Scene", "Communication Drive-In", "Coating of Arms", "Domino Rain", "Doorman's Placebo", "El Ciervo Vulnerado", "Eriatarka", "Goliath", "Governed by Contagions", "Honest to a Fault", "Hung in Effigy", "Incurably Innocent", "Initiation", "Lacewing" live San Fransisco 2013, "Our Last Dance", "Palm Full of Crux", "Pickpocket", "Porfirio Diaz", "The Requisition", "Shit Shoveled", "Sleepwalk Capsules", "This Apparatus Must Be Unearthed", "Transatlantic Foe", "Winter Month Novelty")
C5 ("300 Mhz", "4AM", "Aberinkula", "Aegis", "Agadez", "All Those Nights We Never Met" live Fresno 2013, "Alpha Centauri", "Arcarsenal", "Askepios", "Birthday", "Blank Condolences", "The Burden" live Fresno 2013, "Calibration", "Candy and a Currant Bun", "Catacombs", "Caught in the Sun", "Cerulea", "Chanbara", "Concertina", "Copernicus", "Cosmonaut", "Cotopaxi", "Cut That City", "Day of the Baphomets", "Desperate Graves", "Drown all Your Witches", "Drunkship of Lanterns", "Dyslexicon", "El Ciervo Vulnerado", "Empty Vessels Make the Loudest Sound", "Eunuch Provocateur", "Fahrenheit", "Flash Burns From Flashbacks", "Frances the Mute", "Give it a Name", "Graveyard Love", "Helitrope", "I Got No Remorse", "In Absentia", "In Route Through Bermuda", "In the Lurch", "Incetardis", "...Is Pushing Luck", "I've Had It", "La Tirania De La Tradiciòn", "Lapochka", "Luciforms", "L'via L'viaquez", "The Malkin' Jewel", "Mannequin Republic", "Metronome Arthiritis", "Miranda That Ghost Just Isn't Holy Anymore", "Molochwalker", "Momento Mori", "Napoleon Solo", "No Case Gain", "Obelisk" live XFM Session 2003, "One Armed Scissor", "Ouroborous", "Paper C***s", "Pattern Against User", "People Forget", "Pickpocket", "Postulate", "Providence", "Proxima Centauri", "Rolodex Propaganda", "Rome Armed to the Teeth", "Roulette Dares (The Haunt of)", "Shaking Hand Incision", "Since We've Been Wrong", "Skips on the Record", "Soothsayer", "Squat Town", "Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt", "Teflon", "Ticklish", "Tilting at the Univendor", "Tourmaline", "Tourniquet Man", "Ursa Minor", "Vedamalady", "Vicarious Atonement", "Vigil", "The Widow", "Winter Month Novelty", "With Twilight as my Guide", "Zed and Two Naughts")
B4 ("198d", "50.000 Kilowatts", "Alpha Centauri", "Ambuletz", "Amid Ethics", "Anywhere", "Arcarsenal", "Blue Tag", "Bottleneck" live Santa Ana 2013, "Bradley Smith", "Call a Broken Arrow", "Cassandra Gemini", "Catacombs", "Caviglia", "Cicatriz ESP", "Circuit Scene", "Clouds", Coating of Arms", "Communication Drive-In", "Con Safo", "Continuum", "Cosmonaut", "Despondent at High Noon", "A Devil Among the Tailors", "Domino Rain", "Don't Lose Sight" live Anchorage 2013, "Doorman's Placebo", "Ebroglio", "Elderly Pair Beaten With Hammer", "Emptiness is a Mule", "Enfilade", "Extracurricular", "Fahrenheit", "Faminepulse", "For Now... We Toast", "Frances the Mute", "Grand Mox Turkin", "Half Kleptos", "Helitrope", "Holtzclaw", "Honest to a Fault", "Hostage Stamps", "Hulahoop Wounds", "Imago", "Inertiatic ESP", "Initiation", "Instigate the Roll", "Invalid Litter Dept.", "I've Had It", "Khamsin", "Lacewing" live San Fransisco 2013, "Lopsided", "Ludvico Drive-In", "Mannequin Republic", "Meccamputechture", "Metronome Arthiritis", "Molochwalker", "Multiple Spouse Wounds", "Napoleon Solo", "No Wolf Like the Present", "Noctourniquet", "Non-Zero Possibility", "One Armed Scissor", "Our Last Dance", "Paid Vacation Time", "Pendulum in a Peasant Dress", "A Plague Upon Your Hissing", "Plant a Nail In the Navel Stream", "Plastic Memories", "Point of Demarkation", "Porfirio Diaz", "Proxima Centauri", "Que Dios Te Maldiga Mi Corazon", "Rascuache", "Red Planet", "The Requisition", "Quarantined", "Schaffino", "Shake is for 8th Graders", "Shaking Hand Incision", "Shit Shoveled", "Sleepwalk Capsules", "Speechless", "Star Slight", "Tarantism", "This is Traffic Control", "Ticklish", "Tilting at the Univendor", "Torrentially Cutshaw", "Tourmaline", "Transatlantic Foe", "Trinkets Pale of Moon", "Unearthly Child" live Anchorage 2013, "Ursa Minor", "Vermicide", "Warren Oates", "Wither on the Vines" live Santa Ana 2013)

Significant Low Notes:
E3 ("Alpha Centauri", "Ambuletz", "Asilos Magdalena", "Bimbalaties", "Blue Rose of Grand Street" live Anchorage 2013, "Bottleneck" live Santa Ana 2013, "Call a Broken Arrow", "Catacombs", "Clouds", "Copernicus", "Cryptomnesia", "Cygnus... Vismund Cygnus", "Day of the Baphomets", "Drown all Your Witches", "Dyslexicon", "Empty Vessels Make the Loudest Sound", "Eunuch Provocateur", "Eriatarka", "Faminepulse", "Ghost-Tape No. 9", "Halo of Nembutals", "Helitrope", "In the Lurch", "Inertiatic ESP", "Lacewing" live San Fransisco 2013, "Meccamputechture", "Molochwalker", "Napoleon Solo", "Noctourniquet", "The Palpitations Form A Limit", "A Plague Upon Your Hissing", "Plastic Memories", "Point of Demarkation", "Sarcophagi", "Since We've Been Wrong", "Speechless", "Take Up Thy Stethoscope & Walk", "Tourmaline", "Trinkets Pale of Moon", "Tuberculoids", "Wax Simulacra", "The Whip Hand", "Whisper to Your Flinch/Peeling Off", "Winter Month Novelty", "Zed and Two Naughts")
E♭3 ("Palm Full of Crux", "Providence", "With Twilight as my Guide")
D3 ("Agadez", "Bottleneck" live Santa Ana 2013, "Catacombs", "Cicatriz ESP" live São Paulo 2010, "Concertina" alternate version, "Copernicus", "Cotopaxi", "Cygnus... Vismund Cygnus" live London 2009, "Desperate Graves", "Doorman's Placebo", "Drunkship of Lanterns" live Berlin 2005, "Empty Vessels Make the Loudest Sound", "Frances the Mute", "Halo of Nembutals", "In Absentia", "Invalid Litter Dept.", "L'via L'viaquez", "Miranda That Ghost Just Isn't Holy Anymore", "Noir", "Ouroborous", "Pattern Against User", "Proxima Centauri", "Rome Armed to the Teeth", "Soothsayer", "Tarantism", "Teflon", "Televators", "This Night Has Opened My Eyes", "Unearthly Child" live Anchorage 2013, "Vedamalady", "Zed and Two Naughts")
C♯3 ("Goliath", "Trinkets Pale of Moon", "Ursa Minor")
C3 ("Asilos Magdalena", "Candy and a Currant Bun", "Dyslexicon", "Frances the Mute", "Ilyena", "Khamsin", "Luciforms", "The Malkin' Jewel", "Providence", "Que Dios Te Maldiga Mi Corazon", "Rome Armed to the Teeth", "Tourniquet Man", "Whisper to Your Flinch/Peeling Off")
B2 ("Arcarsenal", "Cavalettas", "Clouds", "Domino Rain", "Half Kleptos", "L'via L'viaquez" live at The Moore Theater 14/10/2022, "Take Up Thy Stethoscope & Walk")
B♭2 ("Ghost Like Soul", "L'via L'viaquez", "The Malkin' Jewel", "Shore Story")
A2 ("Collapsible Shoulders", "Empty Vessels Make the Loudest Sound", "Flash Burns From Flashbacks", "Metatron")
G♯2 ("Empty Vessels Make the Loudest Sound" live at The Mission Ballroom 11/10/2022, "The Malkin' Jewel")

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{Questionable Notes}
C7 ("Plant a Nail In the Navel Stream" ^[6])
B6 ("Tarantism" ^[6])
B♭6 ("Arcarsenal" ^[6])
D6 ("Faminepulse" ^[6], "Roulette Dares" live Big Day Out 2004 ^[6], "Take The Veil Cerpin Taxt" live Electric Ballroom ^[6])
C6 ("Candy and a Currant Bun" ^[6])
G♯5 ("I've Had It" ^[5])

E3 ("Cosmonaut" ^[2])
B2 ("Goliath" ^[1])
G2 ("Bible And The Breathalyzer" ^[3], "Cassandra Gemini" ^[4])
F2 ("Incetardis" ^[5])
E2 ("Palm Full of Crux" ^[4])

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[1] marks yelps and short trills in high range or anacrusis and short dips in low range.
[2] marks notes of questionable identity that cannot be confirmed to be the singer in question.
[3] marks non-melodic notes that don't have a significant enough pitch to warrant inclusion.
[4] marks notes that possess uncertain pitch or have been pitch-shifted.
[5] marks notes that do not fit the previous criteria but are not of a substantial enough quality to warrant counting towards the singer's range.
[6] marks notes that are most likely produced via reverse phonation (inhaling).

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{Album Ranges}
with Antemasque
Antemasque (2014): C3 - E5

with At the Drive-In
Hell Paso (1994): G♯3 - B4
¡Alfaro Vive, Carajo! (1995): E3 - C♯5
El Gran Orgo (1997): E3 - D5
Acrobatic Tenement (1997): F♯3 - E5
Vaya (1999): C♯3 - C5
In/Casino/Out (1999): E3 - C♯5
Relationship of Command (2000): B2 - D5
In•ter a•li•a (2017): E3 - C♯5

with Dregtones
5 Song Alibi (1994): E3 - D5 - E5

with El Grupo Nuevo De Omar Rodriguez Lopez
Cryptomnesia (2009): B2 - G5

with The Mars Volta
Tremulant EP (2002): E3 - D5
De-Loused In The Comatorium (2003): D3 - F♯5
Frances The Mute (2004): B♭2 - B♭5
Amputechture (2006): C3 - B5
The Bedlam In Goliath (2007): A2 - C6
Octahedron (2009): C3 - G5
Noctourniquet (2012): G♯2 - F♯5
The Mars Volta (2022): A2 - F5

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Blue marks falsetto or whistle notes.
Underlines mark notes that are obscured in the song mix.
Italics mark non-melodic notes.
Boldface marks notes that are considered to be particularly notable examples of this person's vocal capabilities.

[Henny Macc]

Might wanna add the description for [6] to the key in questionable notes. Other than that, looking great! Definitely a rare case of a male singer that makes sense to start highs for at B4.

[kuyashii]

Awesome thread as always! There are some considerations needed to be made about the Cassandra Gemini suite: originally conceived as a 32-minute song, the band split it to tracks 5-12 on the CD because otherwise the band would be paid a wage worth of a 5 track EP by the label (even though there are 77 minutes of music). The thing is that the tracks don't line-up with the imovements of the suite and as such there's some confusion regarding the labeling of the tracks. I've seen at least two different mislabeled tracklists by streaming and online music stores (and by the look of things you notewatched FTM from YT "Topic Videos" right?) amd to be frank I'm not entirely sure what is the correct way of labeling each part (the one in Wikipedia seems quite random and there isn't any source regarding the labels and lenghts) so to avoid any confusion, I'd suggest labeling them as "Cassandra Gemini I", "II, etc.

BTW, the unreleased song with the bolded B2 is usually called "Clouds", not "Dreams" (it doesn't actually have a name though)

[Smitty.]

I Think theres Background E3 In Ride Like The Devils Son 
"Can you read my lips"
also not sure why the B5 from "Meccamputechture" is underlined, and also the bold link you have for the F♯5 in the same song is should be underlined too even tho get lead F♯5's later in the song
also the C♯3 is most def lead vocal
Edit: I am a little unsure relistening but i do a heara faint vocal coming off the word "lips" which leads me to think there was an E3 there

[Henny Macc]

Does this line from "Goliath" get down to a short B2? On "never heard a man speak like this man BEfore".

[Smitty.]

i probably wouldn't count it
it's spoilered

[epicanova]

A few G2s here.

[Henny Macc]

Is that backing vocal natural though? Cause if so, it would mean he's going down to B♭1 with it at 5:04... O_o

[Smitty.]

We all know this man can not Bb1

[epicanova]

He does use a lot of processing in this part of the song. For the part I quoted above though it sounds like he’s trying and struggling to reach F♯2 at the start, which tells me it’s real. And the later part with the B♭1 has a warbling effect, similar to the other processed parts of the song:

[IhateMana]

but the unprocessed notes he's hitting there also have a very light tone, so of course when it gets pitch-shifted it sounds like he's struggling

[kuyashii]

I was revisiting the "Cygnus" performance with the D6 (just because I love it) and I'm personally hearing it getting up to E6. Could be a crack maybe? There's this flanger (?) effect on Cedric's voice which makes it a bit harder to tell.
youtu.be/zuQWN9ehfrk?t=788

[Platypus]

Yeah, I'm hearing the E6 too. I was thinking voice crack on that (or atleast voice-crack adjacent)

[epicanova]

Methinks bold B5. Another candidate at 8:55

[sylvia!!]

yo so i found out there were a couple of bonus tracks on the japanese verison of the antemasque record

found a few significant notes on each

hung in effigy - c♯5
domino rain - b2, b4, c♯5

there is also this live version of ride like the devil's son that goes up to A5/B♭5 

[senatorsenpai]

Apr 2, 2022 17:21:09 GMT kuyashii said:

I was revisiting the "Cygnus" performance with the D6 (just because I love it) and I'm personally hearing it getting up to E6. Could be a crack maybe? There's this flanger (?) effect on Cedric's voice which makes it a bit harder to tell.
youtu.be/zuQWN9ehfrk?t=788

I agree! The E6 is quick but it doesn't sound jarring to me like a voice crack would, he seems to maintain control back down to D6 and B5.