I tend to assume everyone who drops by this website is also already a frequent visitor to The Deuce Project, one of the best places to hear science fiction related music. Even if you are a frequent visitor, you might have missed their silliest episode yet: Splitting Infinitives While Exploring The infinite. That particular link will pull up and play such songs as William Shatner’s – Rocket Man, Nichelle Nichol’s – Uhura’s Theme, and Leonard Nimoy’s – Music to Watch Space Girls Go By. And many other silly songs…
It was just announced that this years Oscars will be expanded to 10 entries for the Best Picture top prize. Hopefully that will allow room for more genre films next year. The same source (Airlock Alpha) reports that Blue Is Zod for Smallville.
From the Gallifreyan Embassy comes word of a rumor posted by a tabloid that claims that all 11 Doctors will appear together in this years Children in Need special. Minor details like the first three Doctors (Hartnell, Troughton, and Pertwee) no longer being among the living make the production problematic but not insurmountable. After all, the Doctor has a long history of supporting this charity project, and sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind…
And then there is: Comic Relief – Red Nose Day, also in its main link mode.
With the pilot for the new TV show Virtuality set to air Friday, Deadbolt caught an interview with Ron Moore about the project. Whether the show actually becomes a series will depend on the numbers it pulls for Fox TV, so be sure to tune in.
Miku Hatsune is the name of a Virtual Idoru, or Idol. She sings whatever you program her for, because she is software that takes your input and generates custom made anime music from it.
Miku was sampled from anime vocal artist and singer Saki Fujita, who brought to life characters in Bleach, Speed Grapher, Shuffle, and many others. Including Zoku Sayonara ZetsubÅ Sensei, the show where she actually played the character Hatsune Miku. The software she (and a number of others) was sampled for is Yamaha’s Vocaloid2, a program that lets you enter the lyrics and notes for a song, select the singers, and generate the music. Or you can input the lyrics and play the computer keyboard in realtime to generate the notes. Unlike most software (OK, pretty much all software) I mention here, this program isn’t free by any means, and the crippleware version you can download to try is limited to 5 words and very truncated song length.
But I had to post about it, because very few news reports out of Japan make it to the US. There are Widgets for Miku, multiple CDs released, large user communities, dedicated music players to embed on web pages like the one below, entire anime’s built around the Miku songs generated, other anime voice artists who have since been sampled and call her Big Sister; and for the entire month her sample set was released it was the number one best selling item on Amazon Japan in any category. Pretty impressive for someone who doesn’t actually exist, isn’t it? Rumor has it there is a newer version of the software as well. You might also want to download the MikuMiku Dance animation software to make your own dance videos to go with the songs you create (that one is Freeware, and you probably want the multi-model English version).
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This one is impressive. Just as an example, a short list of the guests of the London Film and Comic Con includes Scott Bakula, Eve Myles, Tom Baker, Jewel Staite, Michael Ironside, Michael Shanks, Hattie Hayridge, Nick Courtney, and so many more I don’t know how to tell you about them and make it fit on this page. And that’s just the top of the list for the actors; do not miss this one if you have any choice at all!