His partner, Ralf Hütter, who is the only remaining original member of Kraftwerk, sang the lyrics of the song in a monotone — an approach that he calls Sprechgesang, or "spoken singing" — and played a small Mattel keyboard.
Borrowing from the German tradition of sprechgesang, or spoken singing, Mr. Hütter's flat, affectless voice — sometimes treated with a vocoder to further dehumanize it — is an odd match for the band's lilting music-box melodies.
They can be spoken, sung, written, printed, painted and electronically illuminated.
Its songs sputter, twang and lurch behind David Thomas's grandly idiosyncratic vocals, which are spoken, sung or sliding in between.
At the heart of the play are Douglass's words, spoken, sung and emoted with entertaining conviction.
The stimuli blocks were counterbalanced for each participant: sung, spoken, arrhythmic, pause, arrhythmic, spoken, sung in the first session, with the reversed order in the second session.
Holter alternates between speaking, singing, and whispering.
Although Collins has trouble speaking, singing is a breeze.
Everybody judges me by the way I'm speaking, singing, dressed that sort of thing.
Expect Ms. Anderson's grippingly idiosyncratic mixture of speaking, singing and electric violin playing, along with puppetry, Tibetan horns and Arabic strings.
After Mr. Clinton finished speaking, singing, and swaying, he came down to press hands in the exuberant crowd.
