The tone of the programme is the perfect approximation of her standup, which flits dizzyingly from subject to subject without pause, often starting with tense descriptions of her mental-health issues before careering off into a kaleidoscopic nightmare of free-associated thoughts and abstract voices.
Waking Season is the group's first album to incorporate vocals, although just barely, the abstract voices simply act as another instrument.
Ron delivered this huge news in a curiously abstract tone of voice, without meeting his friends' eyes.
Then follows a list of potential writing pitfalls passive voice, abstract words, etc.—and an exhortation to replace indefinite pronouns, like "one," with personal ones, like "you".
Manovich played with this idea in his experimental film installation Soft Cinema where live footage, shifting abstract visuals, and voice over narrative were synced algorithmically and juxtaposed across several windows contained within a single screen.
The group's brilliant new release, "8" (Rune Grammofon), riffles through a catalog of abstract percussion, robotic voices, chilly drones.
Assuming that a set of speaker-independent HMMs already resides in an embedded platform, it is natural to think of utilizing a phonetic representation (phoneme strings or lattices) created from sample utterances as the abstract representation of a voice-tag, that is, voice-to-phoneme conversion.
And what they offer, essentially, is a work of abstract music for the voice, emotion floating free of a specific narrative context.
In the abstract, it was a voice that blended traditionalism with cheeky subversion, and at times a wonderfully childlike enthusiasm for food; but her voice itself was unforgettable: a sonorous, haughty sound that was certainly posh, but also universal.
Jane's will hem and haw and qualify and fudge, use passive voice and abstract nouns; it will circle around the subject to try to cover up all the gaps in her knowledge, and in so doing will just make the reader weary and cross.
