It’s the Medelco Glass Whistling Kettle. Minimalistic yum.

Glass Kettle from James Yu on Vimeo.

There was a great article on Time.com about Auto-tune last week. It talks about how Auto-tune touches all pop music you hear over the radio, making silent and not-so-silent tweaks to songs. Basically, it applies autocorrelation to make any singer sing in tune.

There was also some great discussion on Hacker News.

I decided to fire up GarageBand and apply its version of Auto-tune (Enhanced Tuning) on my voice. It’s actually incredibly easy to sound just like most modern pop artists, sans the great audio equipment. Here I present you the first verse of Kanye West’s Love Lockdown, as sung by me. Please keep in mind I did this in 5 minutes on my Macbook Pro mic.

With Auto-tune (.m4a)

Without Auto-tune (.m4a)