Impressive … Accapella Thrilla

by Rob Lambert

Here’s the native French speakers translation describing this creative project:

Here is a remake of the “Thriller” song that I’ve entirely recorded with my own voice, using 64 acappella tracks. There is therefore no instrument, synthétizer, beatbox, or even to sampler, but only the sound of my voice livened up with Reverb and slight Chorus on certain tracks. Regarding looping parts, Ive simply used the « looping » technique. Moreover, in the whole piece (which contains several thousand notes), I transposed 8 notes, which were impossible for me to sing in high-pitched . Because of my tessiture, I also must have resigned myself to sing certain parts in head voice, more particularly on the track corresponding to Michael Jacksons solo vocal.

Ive accomplished this non-commercial project at home only with a mobile PC, microphone, headphones and webcam - in nearly 350 hours. Its just an artistic challenge, accomplished during my hours of free time, whose purpose is to make smile my close circle and the internauts.

5 comments

1 Jim { 10.29.08 at 7:02 am }: Wow, this is really funny. Is this guy Indian or just pretending to be? He doesn’t look it, but he says Triller like an Indian person rather than Thriller. This is funny, and quite frankly a really cool video, seeing that he did it with all with his voice. I enjoy Michael Jackson’s Thriller so I think this is school. One of my friends is thinking of being Michael Jackson for Halloween and I told him all he’d need is a fake plastic witch’s nose and a really tacky outfit.
2 ~V { 11.01.08 at 3:36 pm }: Hey Jim, there isn’t a “th” sound in French, that’s why he says triller.

Actually the “th” sound is hard for a lot of people to pronounce, it doesn’t exist in a lot of other languages. It’s called a voiceless/voiced dental fricative, and most languages don’t have them.
3 Jim { 11.03.08 at 4:01 am }: Ok, thanks.
4 Jim { 11.04.08 at 6:46 am }: Uncle Rob- We can’t record me playing 1979 because we wouldn’t be able to post it on Youtube because we don’t have an account. What should we do? Maybe you could record it somehow like on an i-chat? I don’t know……. Cause if we recorded it on an i-chat the sound quality wouldn’t be good and there wouldn’t be a clear image.
5 Jim, { 11.06.08 at 2:05 am }: Obama wins!