Helms and Stein
Remember the old Saturday Night Live skit that asked, “What if Eleanor Roosevelt Could Fly?” Sound artist Jane Philbrick asked a question just as unlikely: “What if retired Senator Jesse Helms could recite a lesbian love poem by Gertrude Stein?” Andrew Adam Newman found out how Philbrick’s quixotic project took her to the cutting edge of voice-synthesis technology.
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