Even if you changed pitch as fast as you could, your vocal chords take audibly noticable time to adjust to the new pitch. We can only make one sound at a time with our vocal chords and many of the notes in that opera overlapped each other or were rapid fire. In order to achieve the effect the pianist would have to do exactly what the singer had to do in The 5th Element: record the notes in isolation, then edit them together later. It's impossible because the distance between the notes is too great to go back and forth quickly with only one hand. Picture a pianist with only one hand, who is expected to play a fast piece where he must go back and forth playing the highest note on a keyboard, and the lowest. The composer wrote the end section of this piece from The 5th Element without accounting for what is physically possible for a singer to do. There are a few moments when you can hear the differences in the vocal tones of The Diva's voice.'Īs people sing higher notes, the vocal folds stretch to become longer and thinner, and as people sing lower notes, the vocal folds become shorter and fatter.

Hence, she performed the notes in isolation - one by one, as opposed to consecutively singing them all together and they digitized the notes to fit the music. 'When composer Eric Serra showed soprano Inva Mula (who dubs the voice of the Diva) the sheet music for the Diva Dance, she reportedly smiled and relayed to him that some of the notes written were not humanly possible to achieve because the human voice cannot change notes that fast. I am a vocalist, and I have studied voice and opera for 22 years.

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