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T-VOKS: the Singing and Speaking Theremin

For its 100th birthday, the Theremin has been gifted with speech.

Performative singing synthesis met this early electronic instrument at NIME 2019.

Reference:
T-Voks: Singing and Speaking with the Theremin
Xiao Xiao, Grégoire Locqueville, Christophe d'Alessandro, Boris Doval

Proceedings of The International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, NIME 2019,
Porto Alegre, Brazil, 3-6 June 2019.

T-Voks (singing Theremin) : Xiao Xiao
Piano: Boris Doval
Flute : Benoît Fabre
C-Voks (singing tablet) : Boris Doval, Christophe d'Alessandro, Grégoire Locqueville

Acknowledgements:
Part of this work has been done in the framework of the SMAC (FEDER IF0011085) project. Xiao Xiao was partially supported by the MIT-France program during her stay at Sorbonne Université