<html><body bgcolor="#ffffff"><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><FONT size=1>Leonardo Music Journal 15 with CD<BR><BR>The Word: Voice, Language and Technology<BR><BR>In the beginning of music there very likely was the Word---whether "hush" (little baby) or "hosanna"---but from the knife that kept the great castrato Farinelli forever boyish to the harmonizer that made Laurie Anderson temporarily mannish, technology has been used to tweak the human voice and to color the stories it tells. With the advent of electronic amplification, radio and recording, a single microphone could convey the lip-brushing intimacy of the whisper and croon well beyond the first row of the concert hall. The evolution of pop vocal styles from the 1950s onward cannot be separated from innovations in recording technology such as tape echo, double tracking, electronic reverberation and, most recently, an ever-expanding palette of digital effects. The interplay of the semantic content of a text and the melodic possibilities of the voice have made "song" the world's most common musical form, and technology-driven vocal innovations have often triggered the emergence of new musical genres.<BR><BR>LMJ 15 includes articles and texts by Eduardo Reck Miranda, Timothy D. Polashek, Gil Weinberg, David Toop, Robert J. Gluck, Marc Böhlen and J.T. Rinker, Basile Zimmermann, Daniel Goode, Jaap Blonk with René van Peer, Melody Sumner Carnahan, David Hahn and Ed Osborn. The issue also includes the "Vox ex Machina" CD, curated by Jaap Blonk., which features tracks and notes by Tomomi Adachi, Américo Rodrigues, Christian Bök, Sprechakte X/Treme, Vincent Barras and Jacques Demierre, Ricardo Dal Farra, Jelle Meander, Jörg Piringer, Kenneth Goldsmith, Julien Ottavi, Daniel Goode, Anne-James Chaton and Lasse Marhaug.<BR><BR>Information about LMJ 15 can be found at </FONT><FONT size=1><A href="http://lmj.mit.edu">http://lmj.mit.edu</A></FONT><FONT size=1>. The journal with CD can be ordered from the MIT Press at </FONT><A href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/LMJ" target=_blank><FONT size=1>http://mitpress.mit.edu/LMJ</FONT></A><FONT size=1>, or email: <A href="mailto:journals-orders@mit.edu">journals-orders@mit.edu</A>. The CD can also be ordered via </FONT><FONT size=1><A href="http://cdemusic.org">http://cdemusic.org</A>.</FONT><BR><BR></FONT></DIV></body></html>