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...Mara Mills Copyright © 2012 Qui Parle 2012 Media and Prosthesis1 The Vocoder, the Artifi cial Larynx, and the History of Signal Processing mara mills Vocal Codes American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) com- memorated the twenty- fi fth anniversary of the fi rst...

.... The translation below is from the original, unpublished Italian manuscript. Voice is so inherent to the human body that the body can be con- sidered its instrument. The lungs, trachea, larynx, mouth and other organs of respiration and alimentation transform into organs of phonation (Tomatis 1991). The fi...

... to the rest of the elegy.10 The bird’s translated paean to a jouissance beyond the pleasure principle ad- dressed in the guise of “thee O vast and well-veiled death” makes it clear how, in Paul-Laurent Assoun’s formulation “when the larynx as a vocal organ dys-functions it hyper-functions as an erotic...

... sound accompanying the breathing of a person afflicted with tuberculosis of the larynx” and “the tubercular cough which tormented him during the last months of his life.” 16 More recently, Tyler Whitney has remarked that the text “evinces a marked anxiety around the fact of our embodiment...

... and naturalize a sound theory. Mills shows how the Vocoder, the arti- fi cial larynx, and other technologies that participate in re-creating vocal sounds are based in idealization and universalization. The Vocoder, for instance, emerged as a solution to the problem of the richness of speech’s sounds, which...