The story goes that Francis Farewell Starlite, the mastermind behind Francis and the Lights, found himself so deep in Kanye West’s orbit that he ended up living on the hip-hop visionary’s Wyoming ranch while working on ye and Jesus Is King—and The New York Times recently reported that a certain production technique helped forge the pair’s connection.
Starlite invented a digital vocal technique called the harmonizer (or “prismizer”), which he’s lended to Frank Ocean and Chance the Rapper.
The effect enables a singer to enact a “five-part harmony” by way of a keyboard. Justin Vernon liked it so much, he tapped engineer Chris Messina to adapt it to the live space in what is now called “The Messina.” After Starlite showed the method to West, he
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