Imagine that you are alone in your motel room and an inhuman voice on the phone seems to utter your unspoken thoughts.
"Body Horror"—the first track he's released from the EP is a case in point, juxtaposing sludgy synth lines with precise, organic snare hits as a warped, inhuman voice intones, "I don't wanna deal with this right now".
Both the oppressed and oppressor must turn their backs on the inhuman voices which were those of their respective ancestors in order that authentic communication be possible.
(The Doctor: "When I was on the river I heard the strange babble of inhuman voices, didn't you, Romana?" Professor Chronotis: "Oh, probably undergraduates talking to each other, I expect").
While male groups from Kraftwerk to Zapp to the Jonzun Crew have made trademarks out of inhuman, distorted voices, until recently women have usually gotten a naturalistic treatment, even if their vocals are snipped into samples for dance tracks.
And whoever takes the role of Smaug the Dragon will have to be capable of reflecting the wyrm's ancient cunning and inhuman nature through voice alone.
Carey, who is the more successful, offers the inhuman power of her voice, a knack for producing hit records, and undying optimism.
One of Mongolia's most remarkable singers, Ms. Norovbanzad has a voice that often seems inhuman, with long vibrato, sustain and melismas combined with intense, shimmering high notes and powerful projection.
In Voices, he says, the "seemingly inhuman machine is being used to accompany the most human of all instruments, the singing voice". The piece also sums up a lifetime of Chowning's musical preoccupations, his innovations in our understanding of sound and its perception, and the far-reaching aesthetic possibilities in the dialogues between man and machine.
These voices naturally strike tinny, inhuman notes in contrast to the pitiful desperation of the Joads and the matter-of-fact testimony from the people caught up in the tumult of the foreclosure disaster.
Nearly four years ago, Dick Vitale was calling games with an increasingly hoarse voice that lacked its outsize excitability and inhuman volume.
