Wednesday, June 24, 2026

24 Jun 2026

WEDNESDAY — PERSPECTIVE & PRACTICE

“The vocoder was never meant to change the music business.”

— David Pierce

Bell Labs engineered it for cheap telephony; the Pentagon classified it for secret wartime calls; a generation of artists then bent it into something its inventors never sanctioned. A tool’s real legacy gets written by its users, not by the roadmap that shipped it. The spec is where a technology starts, rarely where it ends up. To learn more, Check out the episode The secret story of the vocoder, the military tech that changed music forever.

Stay safe. Stay healthy. Be strong. Lead well.

Chad