#Hal vocaloid

[daily-utsu-p]

Daily Utsu-P #178:

ORDER feat. Hatsune Miku | Remix of Hal's original song, featured on HAPPYPILLS

#utsu p #utsu-p #utsup #music #vocaloid #audio #vocametal #Hatsune miku #Miku hatsune #Miku #Hatsune #Order #Hal #Remix #Happypills #Album #2023 #Hal vocaloid #Hal producer #Order song

[radiopaques]

Goodbye sengen jade :)

#homestuck #jade harley #vocaloid #art #hal draws

[televisedanime]

World's first fully sentient shimeji.

#homestuck #homestuck fanart #lil hal #hal strider #my art #1st image is an electric angel reference for my vocaloid fans out there

[gruelingtonic]

Only just a little normal about @sickfires's Lil Hal design... (´∀`)

#homestuck #lil hal #hal strider #hs hal #auto responder #harpart #He's like a vocaloid to me in this format

[snottycon]

#nugg draws shit #otacon #solid snake #mgs #snotacon #otasune #snavid #magnet vocaloid #do you think love can bloom even on a battlefield? #yea that meme #hal emmerich

[keinalumia]

I asked myself.. what if otacon had a mikusona :3c

#miku hatsune #vocaloid #mikusona #mgs #metal gear solid #otacon #hal emmerich #fanart #digital art #my art

[justaboutdead]

House of Leaves, 2001, and Daisy Bell (and why its not creepy)

(Fairly minor) Spoilers for House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski and 2001: a Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick

About 500 pages into House of Leaves, Will Navidson begins falling. Alone in the twisting labyrinthine corridors of the House, he is alone, out of supplies, by all metrics thoroughly and definitively defeated. The floor suddenly disappears beneath him and he begins to fall. And there it is, vertically stark against the white page, as many lines are in this section, falling just as he is.

“Daisy. Daisy. Daisy. Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do. I’m half crazy over the love of you. That’s not right.”

Daisy Bell was written in 1892 by composer Frank Dean under the pen name Harry Dacre. A relatively prolific composer at the time, he is thought to have written the song about Daisy Greville, the Countess of Warwick at the time, although evidence for this factoid is sketch at best, and the lyrics directly contradict this reading.

Daisy Bell is a very simple romance song that tells a very endearing story of a young couple’s romance, being unable to afford much more than the eponymous “bicycle built for two.” There’s also an often ignored line about how they will both “despise Policemen and lamps as well.” Even from a modern perspective this song feels really intimate and cute, expressing joy despite poverty, in the policemen line even expressing disgust at cops and urbanization without care for the environment.

Through a variety of circumstances, Daisy Bell, despite this global appeal, has become primarily associated with advances in computing, being the first song to be synthesized by a computer in 1961 on an IBM 7094, and references to this development persist.

The resilience of references to this accomplishment are remarkably popular, primarily due to Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: a Space Odyssey in which the computer HAL 9000 sings the opening lines of the song as he is deactivated, calling back to the IBM demo, which Clarke himself had witnessed.

This rendition, and the original synthesized rendition are often described as creepy and off putting, but I find them strangely endearing. The original version represents a massive leap in computing, its few seconds of audio, and is extremely imperfect. The choice of Daisy Bell, and simple live song from a hundred years ago also helps to humanize the voice singing it. HAL 9000’s rendition is pained, sung as he looses his memory and cognitive functions in what feels like an eternity, in both novel and film. HAL 9000 is a painfully sympathetic character for me. While in the film his intentions remain fairly ambiguous, in the novel they come from a conflict in his instructions, and how he chooses to navigate around those instructions, interpreting them extremely literally being a computer.

It is clear that the intention with the character was to present an uncanny valley human-like consciousness, but honestly a lot of the time it just reads like he’s on the spectrum. He speaks extremely deliberately with awkward pacing. He reflects, in many ways my own anxieties about being excluded, as-well as a very human survival instinct. He is a bad liar, and extremely trepidatious about the task he believes he has to do. He reads in many ways as I would expect a human to in a position of such intense responsibility.

Thus HAL 9000’s final song to me Isn’t creepy, its confirmation of just how human he is. It is, distinctly, something he asks to sing, he almost reads as excited to show it off. It is fitting that the last song he sings is the first song a computer ever sung. I care way more about HAL than I do any of the other characters in the movie, despite his atrocious actions. In many ways he seems the most human, and I think that was part of the point.

My favorite rendition of the song comes from this popular lineage of synthesized version. Tamachang’s Daisy Bell from Future Music With Future VOICES is hauntingly beautiful. Composed of three synthesized voices, that of IBM 7094, Vocoder, and Vocaloid 4 Cyber Diva, as a fusion of old and new, it’s genuinely a really beautiful piece. Each voice has its own unique qualities, all of which lend the song distinctly different emotion.

The narrative I like to imagine is one i have seen dozens of comments on the song mentioning, and stems from the fact that Cyber Diva sounds far more youthful than the other two. In this framing, it is a newer computer saying goodbye to her old relatives as they die, via singing an extremely human cheesy love-song with them. All of these narratives around computers and Daisy Bell are a byproduct of our tendency to over-anthropomorphize computers.

House of Leaves, on the other hand, seeks to draw on themes completely unrelated to the long lineage of robotic Daisy Bells. My first thought when I saw the line in the novel, was of Navidson’s daughter, Daisy. I could see this having been a lullaby, sung to her as he put her to bed. I do not believe this reading to be the most compelling, however. The novel does not spend much time on Navidson’s children.

An often cited fact about the novel, and the Navidson record in particular is that its actually primarily a love story. I believe this to be a far more compelling understanding of the song’s conclusion. Will and Karen Navidson have been through hell together, and this song, sung when things seem darkest, as Navidson falls, as we latter understand, towards his wife, is the subtle confirmation, that despite everything they’ve been through, they will be ok.

House of Leaves, in general, is about, on some level, love (not just romantic) in the face of adversity, both through the lens of the Navidsons troubled reparation of their relationship, as well as Johnny’s slow collapse and our eventual understanding of his past. Daisy Bell is a perfect expression of the realization of these themes. That love can persist even when circumstances seem dire, and can in fact help you through those circumstances. A relatively simple message, but with many complexities

Thank you for entertaining my over-analysis :)

Fav Daisy Bell:

Original synthesized Daisy Bell:

Daisy Bell Hall 9000:

#house of leaves #2001 a space odyssey #literary analysis #book recommendations #daisy bell #vocaloid #ibm #ibm 7094 #Hal 9000 #will navidson #karen navidson #stanley kubrick #arthur c. clarke #mark z danielewski #cyber diva #vocaloid 4 #vocoder #Youtube

[thegirlwhofellfromthestars]

...on a much lighter note, i've been thinking about kara talking to hal about vocaloids. he sees her miku keychain and asks about it and then she explains exactly what vocaloid is in intricate detail. i'm pretty sure hal wouldn't quiiite get it being in his 40s but he's taking her seriously and listening for real which is important

#kara being a miku stan is the hill i WILL die on #kara zor-el #hal jordan #hal & kara #kara: well the first JAPANESE vocaloids were kaito and meiko from crypton future media #hal who's still not quite sure what vocaloid is: (nodding sagely)

[dstriderposts]

my two fav robots rn :D

#homestuck #hs fandom #homestuck fanart #hs art #hs fanart #vocaloid miku #miku #miku fanart #mikuhatsune #hatsune miku #lil hal

[cosmicocoffee]

If you know what this dance is for, you are eligible for a veterans discount

//Guess who’s making an animated PV!! Featuring Kirby!! I can’t wait to finish this! This will be the video I release Rei Nintone’s new bank with- so stay tuned!! 💖💕

#nintendo #kirby #utau #kirby series #hal laboratory #oc #nintone #kirby fanart #utauloid #rei #vocaloid #rei nintone #kirby franchise #kirby oc #oc art #reinintone #kirby nintendo

[spilt-ash]

lgbt

#assign lgbt however you want to each of them #shout out to the person who said I forgot Barry's arm lightnings I absolutely did thank u #they're there now #lgbt #hal jordan #barry allen #hatsune miku #kagamine rin #dc #vocaloid #green lantern #the flash #halbarry #vocal synth #crochet doll #crochet amigurumi #crochet #amigurumi #also!!!! I didn't forget about len he just lives with my friend but I did make him

[prosekai]

Applications in Love | Hal ft. KAITO

#uploading for a friend :3 #synth #vocaloid #kaito #hal

[terrorizings]

I’ll Miku-Miku you (for reals)

#hatsune miku #vocaloid #miku hatsune #vocaloid art #hals scribble zone

[halstridergaming]

they r vocaloids real. what voice banks do you think theyd have ? i was thinking something not as high pitched as fukase but not as deep as kaito for hal but idk ! and for ds i still have no idea yet

#homestuck #lil hal #davesprite #vocaloid #*​vocaloids your blorbos*

[itsmyroadroller]

having consistently had an attachment to one or another sentient ai/robot/whatever for literally my entire consciousness adds a weird autistic hyperempathy level to the whole ai debate that i have to jam to the side because chat gpt isn’t sentient

#bender and vocaloids and the spacecrafts in 17776 and lil hal…….. #also i still think it’s funny i’ve watched futurama my whole life. this three year olds favorite characters are spongebob and. bender???? #rzr speaks

[friendofthecrows]

Ok so medications are minerals (sort of) yeah? SO if we take crystal healing to its logical extremes, one COULD:

Acquire 2 pills of a medication (OTC recommended for Reasons TM). Charge both the pills with healing intent. Take one and put one in a medicine bag, which you would have earlier enchanted to amplify.

Boom! A spell. Ultimate healing. And if it doesn't work by the time required for the second dose...well I guess you've got an extra pill on you anyways ^w^

#i would be the most irresponsible dark ages apothecary ever #at least i wouldn't be telling people there are demons in their blood #hal rambles #shitpost #spell #healing #crystal healing #witchcraft #just one of my insane ideas #i kid you not I used to come up with stuff like this all the time and actually execute it :p #some of it worked #lmao #oh the worst vocaloid song i've ever heard cam e on just a sec #i'm v sleep deprived if that explains anything