Those who Know, know....like Robin, others. yesterday..re Pynchon video

[Robin Landseadel]

On Aug 4, 2009, at 8:10 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> To reduce to a [near-]certainty---GR, I think--- Steve Moore says  
> this;
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> From: Steve Moore (Merch)
> I can't confirm 100%, but last night I heard from a sound engineer  
> who closely analyzed the voice on the video with the one on the  
> Simpsons episode, and he's 99% sure it our man.

Just before this all turns into a round of "Telephone", I'm that sound  
engineer who replied to Steve Moore. I compared the YouTube of  
Pynchon's voice from "Diatribe of a Mad Housewife," "All's Fair in  
Oven War." & the Penguin video. This didn't involve any "objective"  
analysis—no 'spectrum analysis', no LEDs or VU meters— I was simply  
listening for vocal color, timing, phrasing. There's cartoonish  
alteration of vocal presentation in all three but this dude ain't no  
Mel Blanc or Scott Mcfarland. Tthe voice at the bottom of all these  
low-level shifts in affect & pitch present the same Joisy glottal  
stops, the same smoker's burr inflecting the ends of phrases where the  
breath runs out, the same vaudeville timing.