Hallen; Language That Never Existed

Hallen is a hallucinated English.

Vocal hallucinations in generative audio are well known. When talking of songs, that means vocals generated unintentionally, usually sounding like gibberish or a “song in unknown language”.

When it’s human-made, it’s usually called novelty song. If you ever listened to, say, “Orbis Mundi” albums, starting with “Adia”, you would find quite a lot of such songs - they sound in something very similar to (language name here), but still sound weird and can’t be understood.

When it’s a work of algorithms, it has no definite name, save the umbrella term “vocal hallucinations”. In my experience, the Hallen songs can be quite an interesting type of tracks. Although the language itself isn’t real and can’t be understood in semantic meaning, the voice still carries emotions. When that blends with a music, it can result in quite an interesting audio experience.

When we started our first attempts of generative music composition (clumsy, weird and awful; there was no Suno or other services at that time), Hallen tracks were generated in old school manner - talking of scatting. Now that the technologies allow us to speed up the process, generating Hallen tracks intentionally is a piece of cake, after one finds proper templates.

What kind of templates? That I will explain in one of the next posts.