The interview sessions were held in the Swiss German or French languages, were electronically voice-recorded and were transcribed with f4 software for data analysis.
"Zoom," he says, and an electronically synthesized voice echoes the command in confirmation.
But the words, spoken by an electronically distorted voice, are identifiably Lear's.
They can also talk back, to provide driving directions with an electronically generated voice.
His tour includes T-Pain, who sings in an electronically processed voice about his very physical love for strippers.
A standard-issue demon with a shaved head, he intones his dialogue in an electronically deepened voice.
This provides ghostly relief from the deranged centre piece of the EP — a hip-hop song with an electronically manipulated voice singing over layer upon layer of vocals.
They build tracks with a few keyboard settings, a pithy drumbeat and little pockets of space; Air often adds a dissociated, electronically filtered voice.
As it happens, nearly everyone involved is a dog lover: the Fierlingers have Gracie, a mix of shepherd and corgi, and Oscar (whose electronically adjusted voice was used when an aggressive bark was called for).
In the YouTube message An Open Letter from Anonymous to the Government of Israel, an electronically generated voice can be heard accusing Israel of "piracy on the high seas".
Mr. Marker, by contrast, rather more memorably, appears in the guise of his talisman, an orange tabby named Guillaume-en-Egypte, represented here by a cartoon cat with an electronically obscured voice who rolls his eyes at the puckish Ms. Varda.
