Dave Tompkins: 1 book
How to Wreck a Nice Beach
The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, The Machine Speaks
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
The history of the vocoder: how popular music hijacked the Pentagon's speech scrambling weapon
The vocoder, invented by Bell Labs in 1928, once guarded phones from eavesdroppers during World War II; by the Vietnam War, it was repurposed as a voice-altering tool for musicians, and is now the...
