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“I can't say how and when it happens, but sometimes intercepted visions away in time, past and future. Views like dreams that run in front of the eyes and in their heads. Sometimes they remain attached some fragments and every time it happens I will come here to tell these alternative routes that takes the voice, its mutations, its evolutions and dissolutions, its magic. "
08 January 2027
from the visionary on board
Michele Degan
We all thought of it at least once in my life to be able to change your voice. Having another one, perhaps that he reflected more the idea we have of ourselves.
Maybe just for a moment, for a joke. Or maybe to excel in a comparison.
We perhaps thought of being able to make a new one, that it was less nasal, or deeper, more persuasive, even more grated, or having it just like an actor of the past, less ingested, more male, more feminine, or simply younger, In order not to feel darkened even when you don't look in the mirror.
Let's take a step back. In the last few years, the apps and software that can extrapolate the voice of an actor or singer have first been multiplying.
And others that allow you to jokingly change your voice, usually for goliardic purposes, with monstrous or ringing voice.
Then the Ai and the world came, it has changed again, even that of vocality. Now we can hear an intimate version of Bad Romance from John Lennon's voice.
And also entire new discs of the Nirvana, up to Callas who gives us his very personal musical all about pieces of Ed Sheeran.
But it wasn't enough for us, we wanted more, apparently.
We wanted an even deeper evolution, apparently.
Then we come to us, at the present. To a new way of acting on our most intimate tool, the timbre of the voice. Change it, in search - it would be said - of our real voice.
This idea opens up a range of fascinations that seem to run a lot behind, towards antiquity, mysticism, towards a world in the balance with myth. Or even further back, towards the first days of humanity, or even earlier, towards a song that is at the origin of the universe.
But let's not leave too much to go to the tides of dreams and the spirit.
What is happening today could radically change another important brick of our humanity ... but, after all, it could also be just a passing fashion, a vintage of tomorrow.
Certainly the phonochirurgia has not been invented now.
This discipline is still fundamental to solve and heal certain pathologies. In parallel, this practice has become very useful for example in transgender people, towards greater research and adhesion to their own identity.
But the speech has still gone on, and some more extravagant professor wanted to look at the matter with a more pushed eye towards the aesthetic of the voice.
An even more spasmodic research towards the ideal uniqueness of each individual, certainly in line with the times we live.
What is happening in this 2027?
So in the last couple of years - we can now say - we have witnessed a phenomenon of physiological passage: imitation.
The imitation that cyclically returns and accompanies us, and gives step to the new paths. In the last couple of years we have witnessed the artificial change of the voice of some people who wanted to "appropriate" - it is appropriate to say it - of someone else's stamp, of a famous one, of a voice of someone who is not there more.
Indeed - do you remember? - We even had to put limits because they were starting to disseminate doppelgänger of famous singers, of influencers and live and vegetable actors, and for a moment there was the serious danger of the appearance of an army of replicants, only that instead of Robot to provoke it were ... we.
This extreme evolution of the game " I do the Swedish emphasis " of Fantozzian memory has finally brought perhaps more defined and mature to a step: the artificial creation of a new voice.
An operation that can give to those who want it the voice that has always dreamed of. A new voice, with all imperfections in the right place.
The question evolves, no longer relegated to the more strictly medical and pathological field, no longer rehabilitative, nor more a decision that is part of a greater change, but even more daughter of desire.
Temptation towards an individual change, towards a better self -image, if we also want to program and think. A voice of the voice that is becoming a cosmetic surgery in all respects.
So how does the operation work? Well, without going into technicisms and too twisted melisms we can summarize that, as often happens, it was necessary to draw from the animal world to erect the decisive bridge that opened the way for this new technique.
More specifically, from the world of birds.
In fact, different species of birds are known, they have an incredible capacity of timbre imitation. This extraordinary ability is due to the Siringe , a vocal organ that changes according to the species and whose form determines the myriad of types of their verses. In short: the Sirinx is made up of a series of cartilage rings that vibrate their width.
It is this agility that produces the diversification of sounds in a range that is sometimes truly breathtaking, but whose purposes are rather different from what we are looking for ... or maybe not?
The reasons why they do it are easily traceable: territoriality, knowing how to recognize themselves, a technical astute to remove predators. The great imitative ability even rewards in love, or at least it is a card that repays in the game of courtship.
And why are we pushing ourselves in this direction?
Here is no longer a question of mimesis , not in the strict sense at least. If anything, it is a chase towards an ideal, towards a dreamy image that we have of us, and that after passing from the belly, the back, to the face, then to the lips, now she slipped into the mouth, she went down to the vocal cords And he also wants these Vibrino in tune with a new beauty that is now possible, reachable.
The operation is certainly not to be taken lightly, but recently the doctors have taken a big step by deciding not to act directly on the vocal cords, fragile and delicate, but embracing the microengineering that is providing prototypes - to date absolutely valid - of Syringu replica from the world of birds.
Surgery therefore deals with installing this small organ in the just upper larynx compared to the vocal strings so as to be able to change its vibration and determine the sound you are looking for.
Even - but this is not an absolute novelty - it is now possible to undergo the operation with the local anesthesia only, so that the patient can decide exactly as his new voice wants, as deep or acute, as round or how angular.
And he can do it live, during the installation phase, as if finding the "right" frequency.
This new phase in the investigation and action on the human body - it seems right to underline in closing - also opens up to other problems, or we could also tell new opportunities. In fact, the stamp is not everything: the mouth also wants its part.
As the sound is emitted, the opening of the mouth, the teeth, the movements of the tongue, the right breathing. All this contributes to the "good" success of a voice, to its final rendering, as well as its perception from the outside.
In short, to make it simple, as it is not enough to buy a nice car but also to know how to drive it, to make up the voice requires a certain degree of attention.
Today we are witnessing the race towards a whole type of "retouching", and perhaps this trend will lead to a new conscience, to a new awareness of that tool that perhaps most of all belongs to us and speaks of us in every flexion of our mood, clear expression of our feeling and our emotions.
Or maybe not. Maybe it will be just a passenger habit. In any case, we will continue to be with the Occch ... er, with the ears well open.
(... and that the world saves us from other emils by Freddie Mercury!)
