![]() ![]() ![]() It's called How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder From World War II to Hip-Hop. Music journalist Dave Tompkins has written a book about the vocoder and its unlikely history. Rather, it was developed to decrease the cost of long-distance calls and has taken on numerous other uses since. Though the vocoder has found its way into music, the machine was never intended for that function. ![]() That's thanks to the vocoder, a device invented by Bell Labs, the research division of AT&T. If you've listened to pop music in the past 40 years, you've probably heard more than a few songs with a robotic sound. Hear Neil Young's 'Transformer Man' on YouTube
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