Daisy Bell - HAL 2001 Space Odyssey "Symphonic Guitars"

Older computer technology blended with new technology!

Dan Sindel performs Daisy Bell (A Bicycle Built for Two) reading from Barber shop Quartet sheet music using the AXON Guitar-to-MIDI converter running into a Pro Tools Digital Audio Workstation and factored in the original 1963 Bell Lab synthetic speech recordings of DAISY.

With only a few adjustments to the timing of the original Bell Lab recordings to go along with the guitar music the file is in perfect integrity.

**Download the full computer speech demo from 1963:
http://tinyurl.com/5smzpc

This video features old stock footage from Coney Island (1940's) and some cool old ARMY footage of an Atomic Bomb Test - "Operation Cue".

Henry Dacre wrote Daisy Bell somewhere around 1892.

One of the more famous moments in Bell Labs' synthetic speech research was the sample created by John L. Kelly in 1962, using an IBM 704 computer. Kelly's vocoder synthesizer recreated the song "Bicycle Built for Two," with musical accompaniment from Max Mathews. Arthur C. Clarke, then visiting friend and colleague John Pierce at the Bell Labs Murray Hill facility, saw this remarkable demonstration and later used it in the climactic scene of his novel and screenplay for "2001: A Space Odyssey," where the HAL9000 computer sings this song as he is disassembled by astronaut Dave Bowman.
http://www.bell-labs.com/news/1997/march/5/2.html

Category:

Film & Animation

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• Stanley
• Kubrick
• HAL
• Daisy
• 2001
• Space
• Odyssey
• DAVE
• Symphonic
• Guitars
• Pink
• Floyd
• AXON
• AX100
• MIDI
• synth
• Coney
• Island
• Henry
• Dacre
• Barber
• shop
• Quartet
• ARMY
• Atomic
• Bomb
• Test
• Operation
• Cue
• science
• fiction

[Seuration]

would help if your playing and the computer's singing were in the same key.

other than that, nicely done.

[halipino]

@Seuration yeah yeah yeah everyone a critic! thanks though :)

[analoq]

This is so horrific and yet jovial at the same time. I love it.

[halipino]

LOL hey Thank you for the comment.... yes the footage is a bit weird and disturbing in a "jovial" sort of way is it not?

No hidden meaning really I was just having some fun chopping up some stock footage and that is where I parked it.

:)

[rabryan21]

No, the mismatch in key between the singing and instruments is awesome.

[BrightAkatsuki]

I'm scared...

[halipino]

yes the HAL voice does lend a very creep element does it not... The music definitely has a dark carnival vibe to it.

[jojo11427]

Now you know.

by the way , this video really terrified me ...

[EZGTR]

No interesting... I always heard that HAL was a logical shift in the letters of the alphabet

H=I

A=B

L=M

[jojo11427]

you didn't see the novel , did you ?

author said that HAL is not IBM

HAL is "Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer"