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...quasi-synchronized. Songs blip for an ugly instant as Sally primps. Two songs run on top of each other in distinct gibberish as she smiles at her date. The soundtrack is used by Waletzky to tell us what the pictures alone only suggest. Near the end, sound pops into sync with the click of a light-switch, grabbing our attention for the brief, affirmative finale...
...well object to the feedback, spotty pickups or imbalances that occur when Carol Burnett drowns out Jack Jones in a duet, or the band on The Ed Sullivan Show blasts through a crooner's ballad. To compensate, about one-third of the singers on TV practice "lip sync"-mouthing the lyrics to a prerecorded sound track. But this leads to such unnatural sights as lips out of gear or Joey Heatherton dancing frantically and singing sweetly while her chest heaves like a half-miler...
...century Venetian in the chronicle of his travels in Cathay, and introduce instead 100 minutes of substandard horse operatics that resemble polo more than Polo? What's more, the cutting looks as though it had been done by a Mongolian headsman; the dubbing is so wildly out of sync that occasionally a word spoken by one actor seems to come out of another actor's mouth; and the color print looks like a fresco restored with the assistance of Clorox...
They were. And so were the producers of last week's Emmy awards TV show for trying to pass off this performance as live music. In truth, Gary Lewis and the Playboys were pantomiming to a record. This is a convenient ruse known as "lip sync" (lip synchronization) and is used by virtually all rock 'n' rollers when they appear on TV. Records today are so beefed up by electronic gimmickry that most big-beat groups court disaster if they sing with their live voices unelectrified. Pity the poor Beatles. When they appeared on last week...
Plastic Surgery. Lip sync is symptomatic of a profound change that has gripped the recording industry. With each new advance in technology, the sound of recorded music-revved up reverberated, splintered, stirred, spliced, multiplied, filtered, equalized-passes further into a kind of aural twilight zone. For every hour that a classical or pop artist spends recording music today, technicians devote an average of four hours to doctoring it. The result, though few listeners realize it, is that the age of machine music is already here, and for better or worse it is reshaping the world of music making...