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World Service,02 Oct 1998,13 mins

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Deconstructing musical notes. Xavier Rodet explains how he created the voices of male sopranos (castrati) using computers for the film Farinelli. Musician John Stelzer demonstrates multiphonic notes on his saxophone.

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