It’s been a long, strange game of Telephone from the 1939 World’s Fair to T-Pain, the latter being the artist most recently and erroneously associated with the vocoder, and the former being where the ...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Half art book, half music nerd bathroom reading, Dave Tompkins' long-in-the-works history of the vocoder, "How to Wreck a Nice Beach," chronicles the sound synthesizing system's ...