Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Smith's songs

BJIT (British James in Texas) has introduced me to the wonderful world of Songsmith. This is software by Microsoft that (he informs me): 
"generates musical accompaniment to match a singer’s voice. Just choose a musical style, sing into your PC’s microphone, and Songsmith will create backing music for you. Then share your songs with your friends and family, post your songs online, or create your own music videos."
I'm fairly sure that's a quote he got from somewhere, because he's not that fast a typist. 

It sounds intriguing. As part of my lifelong goal to be the only straight male ever to make money writing a Broadway musical, I think I could use such software to help me put music to my lyrics, so I might give this a look.

After all... software + Microsoft? What could possibly go wrong?

Okay, well apparently this has turned viral on YouTube, says BJIT, with people taking the vocal tracks from real songs and passing them through Songsmith, and then posting the (often hilarious) results through YouTube.

At his behest, I did a YouTube search (can we start saying "I YouTubed..." already?) for "Roxanne Songsmith" and came up with this:



Freakin... hilarious! Sting is being stalked through the streets of New York by an out-of-work but enthusiastic Jamaican band. At BJIT's suggestion, I shall also YouTube "Billy Idol Songsmith" and "intergalactic songsmith." Because I don't really need to finish the translation of this dinosaur documentary I'm working on. They're dead, what do they care?

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