It's a shame skyrefuge isn't on here as much, because I'd love to pick his brain about this piece.
ha, yeah, just got back from a 3 week bike tour. And this is the only thread that looked interesting enough to click on (I guess just because Zod posted it?) so I guess I picked the right one!
Anyway, I think it's fucking awesome that there is a whole Internet forum dedicated to analyzing and cataloging the recorded ranges of singers. Fucking Internet music nerds, I love 'em!
In these days of Big Data, it almost feels like any information that can be gathered is already in a database somewhere, but this is a category where regular human beings are toiling away the old-fashioned way (I think?) and generating new data from the Real World and adding it to our great shared database in the sky.
And yes, it's nothing more than a set of facts, it's not universally complete, it might have errors, and it sure as hell isn't going to tell you anything about who is a "better" singer. But it's information we didn't have before, and some information is always better and more useful than no information.
For anyone who hasn't followed the chain of links, the original (and ongoing) source for all the data is:
http://therangeplace.forummotions.com/f1-range-stuff
Every singer has their own thread, with the specific songs listed in which the singer hits high and low notes (unfortunately the lists don't include timestamps within those songs, but sometimes other posts in the thread will).
In the
Hansi thread there's somebody doing processing and posting of mp3s so the community can determine if the Altair 4 scream is an A5 or an A6.
The
Barlow thread contains a couple of annotated YouTube videos that string together and identify all his significant notes.
