Explore The History Of The Vocoder In This Short Documentary

The vocoder has played an influential role throughout electronic music’s lifetime, being popularized by artists like Kraftwerk, Daft Punk and many more. In this video provided by The New Yorker, we gain insights into the vocoder’s early inceptions and how it has contributed to musical expression.

The various historical applications of the vocoder range far and wide, such as with its use in the military during World War II to encrypt classified conversations. From its 1928 birth in Bell Labs to present day, the vocoder has not gone anywhere and this is will likely never change!

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