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Karaoke (disambiguation)Karaoke (銈儵銈偙, Karaoke? from Japanese
kara(绌?, "empty," and 艒kesutora, "orchestra") (pronounced /k蓱藧r蓱藧藢o蕣k
蓻/; in Japanese IPA: [karaoke]; listen (help路info)) is a form of
entertainment in which amateur singers sing along with recorded music
using a microphone and public address system. The music is typically a
well-known pop song in which the voice of the original singer is
removed or reduced in volume. Lyrics are usually displayed on a video
screen, along with a moving symbol or changing color, to guide the
singer. In some countries, karaoke with video lyrics display
capabilities is called KTV. It is very commonly
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pronounced /k忙ri藧o蕣ki藧/, leading people to also spell it
"kareoke".Contents1 History2 Technology2.1 MIDI applications and .kar
files2.2 Video game2.3 Karaoke VCD2.4 Karaoke on mobile phones2.5
Karaoke on computers and the Internet2.6 Karaoke in automobiles3
Alternative playback devices4 Public places for karaoke5 Karaoke
terms5.1 Hitokara6 Karaoke in Culture6.1 Karaoke in Korean Culture6.2
Karaoke in film6.3 World records7 References8 See also9 External
links[edit] HistoryThe first karaoke machine was invented by Japanese
musician Daisuke Inoue[1] in Kobe, Japan, in the early 1970s.[2] After
becoming popular in Japan, karaoke spread to East and Southeast Asia
during the 1980s and subsequently to other parts of the world in its
modern state.Entrance Hall of a K-TV in TaipeiIn Japan, it has long
been common to provide musical entertainment at a dinner or a party.
Japanese drummer Daisuke Inoue was asked by frequent guests in the
Utagoe Kissa, where he performed, to provide a recording of his
performance so that they could sing along on a company-sponsored
vacation. Realizing the potential for the market, Inoue made a tape
recorder that played a song for a 100-yen coin.Instead of giving his
karaoke machines away, he leased them out, so that stores did not have
to buy new songs on their own. Originally, it was considered a
somewhat expensive fad, as it lacked the live atmosphere of a real
performance and 500 yen in the 1970s was the price of two typical
lunches, but it caught on as a popular entertainment. Karaoke machines
were initially placed in restaurants and hotel rooms; soon, new
businesses called karaoke boxes, with compartmented rooms, became
popular. In 2004, Daisuke Inoue was awarded the tongue-in-cheek Ig
Nobel Peace Prize for inventing karaoke, "thereby providing an
entirely new way for people to learn to tolerate each other."Inoue
never bothered to patent his invention, losing his chance to become
one of Japan's richest men. Roberto del Rosario, a Filipino inventor
who called his sing-along system "Minus-One", now holds the patent for
the device now commonly known as the "karaoke machine". Following a
court battle with a Japanese company which claimed to have invented
the system, del Rosario's patents were issued in 1983 and 1986, more
than a decade after Inoue's original unpatented invention of the
device in 1971.[3]Early karaoke machines used cassette tapes, but
technological advances replaced this with CDs, VCDs, laserdiscs and,
currently, DVDs. In 1992, Taito introduced the X2000, which fetched
music via a dial-up telephone network. Its repertoire of music and
graphics was limited, but its smaller size and the advantage of
continuous updates saw it gradually replace traditional machines.
Karaoke machines connected via fiber-optic links to provide instant
high-quality music and video are becoming increasingly popular.A
karaoke box that occupies a high-rise building in Shinjuku, Tokyo;
this location was featured in the movie Lost In Translation.Karaoke
soon spread to the rest of Asia and then to the United States in the
1990s, as well as to Canada and other Western countries. Facilities
suc
h as karaoke bars or "KTV boxes" provided the venue, equipment, and
software for amateur singers to entertain each other.As the available
selection of music has increased, more and more people within the
industry see karaoke as a very profitable form of lounge and nightclub
entertainment. It is not uncommon for some bars to have karaoke
performances seven nights a week, commonly with much more high-end
sound equipment than the small, stand-alone machines noted above.
Dance floors and lighting effects are also becoming common sights in
karaoke bars. Lyrics are often displayed on multiple TV sets around
the bar, including big screens.[edit] TechnologyA basic karaoke
machine consists of a microphone, a means of altering the pitch of the
recorded music, and an audio output. Some low-end machines attempt to
provide vocal suppression so that one can feed regular songs into the
machine and suppress the voice of the original singer; however, this
is rarely effective. Most common machines are audio mixers with
microphone input built in with CD+G, Video CD, Laser Disc, or DVD
players. CD+G players use a special track called subcode to encode the
lyrics and pictures displayed on the screen, while the other formats
natively display both audio and video.Most karaoke machines have
technology that electronically changes the pitch of the music so that
amateur singers can sing along to any music source by choosing a key
that is appropriate for their vocal range, while maint
http://www.chinese-microphone.com/Karaoke-Microphones.html aining the
original tempo of the song. (There were some very old systems that
used cassettes, and these changed the pitch by altering playback
speed, but none are still on the market, and their commercial use is
virtually nonexistent.)A popular game using karaoke is to type in a
random number and call up a song, of which participants take turns to
try to sing as much as they can. In some machines, this game is pre-
programmed and may be limited to a genre so that they cannot call up
an obscure national anthem that none of the participants can sing.
This game has come to be called "Kamikaze Karaoke" or "Karaoke
Roulette" in some parts of the United States and Canada.[citation
needed]Many low-end entertainment systems have a karaoke mode that
attempts to remove the vocal track from regular audio CDs. This is
done by center removal, which exploits the fact that in most music the
vocals are in the center. This means that the voice, as part of the
music, has equal volume on both stereo channels and no phase
difference. To get the quasi-karaoke (mono) track, the left channel of
the original audio is subtracted from the right channel. The Sega
Saturn also has a "mute vocals" feature that is based on the same
principle and is also able to adjust the pitch of the song to match
the singer's vocal range.The crudeness of this approach is reflected
in the often-poor performance of voice removal. Common effects are
hearing the reverberation of the voice track (due to stereo reverb
being put on the vocals); also, other instruments (snare/bass drum,
solo instruments) that happen to be mixed into the center get removed,
degrading this approach to hardly more than a gimmick in those devices.
[edit] MIDI applications and .kar filesSome computer programs that
serve a similar purpose to the standard karaoke machine have been
developed that use MIDI instrumentation instead of a recorded track to
generate the accompaniment. This makes transposition technically
trivial and also shrinks the information needed to provide the
accompaniment to the point where it is easy to transfer across the
Internet, even over slow connections. The standard file format used
is .KAR, an extension of the standard .MID MIDI disk format which
includes embedded lyrics and can be played unaltered by MIDI player
software.[edit] Video gameA karaoke game was initially released for
the NES, but its limited computing ability made for a short catalog of
songs and therefore reduced replay value. As a result, karaoke games
were considered little more than collector's items until they saw
release in higher-capacity DVD formats.Karaoke Revolution, created for
the PlayStation 2 by Konami and released in North America in 2003, is
a console game in which a single player sings along with on-screen
guidance and receives a score based on his or her pitch, timing, and
rhythm. The game soon spawned several follow-ups including Karaoke
Revolution Vol. 2, Karaoke Revolution Vol. 3, Karaoke Revolution Party
Edition, CMT Presents Karaoke Revolution: Country and Karaoke
Revolution Presents: American Idol. While the original Karaoke
Revolution was also eventually released for the Microsoft Xbox console
in late 2004, the new online-enabled version included the ability to
download additional song packs through the console's exclusive Xbox
Live service.A similar game, SingStar, published by Sony Computer
Entertainment Europe, is particularly popular in the European and
Australasian markets. Other similar titles in the rhythm-based game
genre include Bemani's Dance Dance Revolution, GuitarFreaks, Donkey
Konga, DrumMania, Guitar Hero, Rock Band, and UltraStar with its forks.
[edit] Karaoke VCDThe takeoff of video CDs in East and Southeast Asia
is partly due to the popularity of karaoke. Many VCD players in
Southeast Asia have a built-in karaoke function. On stereo recordings,
one speaker will play the music with the vocal track, and the other
speaker will play the music without the vocal track. So, to sing
karaoke, users play the music-only track through both speakers. In the
past, there were only pop-song karaoke VCDs. Nowadays, different types
of karaoke VCDs are available. Cantonese opera karaoke VCD is now a
big hit among the elderly in Hong Kong.[citation needed][edit] Karaoke
on mobile phonesIn 2003, several companies started offering a karaoke
service on mobile phones, using a Java MIDlet that runs with a text
file containing the wor
ds and a MIDI file with the music. This is still a budding service,
and it is unclear whether it will become popular; however, some mobile
karaoke providers, such as Karaokini, have begun to achieve commercial
success.[edit] Karaoke on computers and the InternetSince 2003, much
software has been released for hosting karaoke shows and playing
karaoke songs on a personal computer. Instead of having to carry
around hundreds of CD-Gs or laserdiscs, KJs can "rip" their entire
libraries onto their hard drives and play the songs and lyrics from
there.Additionally, new software permits singers to sing and listen to
one another over the Internet with collaborators/audiences from all
around the world.Various online karaoke websites provide the
opportunity for karaoke enthusiasts to participate and share in a
worldwide karaoke community. Users can create personal, online karaoke
profiles, which store their individual recordings and even allow video
syncing. Some examples of free sites are singsnap.com[3], the UK-based
internetkaraoke.net, Yahoo's bix.com, Electronic Arts's singshot.com,
and Fox Interactive's ksolo.com. The Sims On Stage is an online
community where creative people entertain their friends and the world.
thesimsonstage.ea.com[4]As of 2007, companies such as Sound Choice and
Stellar Records are taking legal action against computer-run karaoke
systems on the grounds that they violate fair use laws and that fair
use does not apply to commercial use. They also say that format-
shifting for any use is also against fair use laws.[edit] Karaoke in
automobilesChinese automobile maker Geely Automobile received much
press in 2003 for being the first to equip a car, their Beauty
Leopard, with a karaoke machine as standard equipment.
http://www.chinese-microphone.com/Karaoke-Microphones.html Karaoke is
often also found as a feature in aftermarket in-car DVD players.[edit]
Alternative playback devicesThe CD+G format of a karaoke disc, which
contains the lyrics on a specially encoded subcode track, has
heretofore required special鈥攁nd expensive鈥攅quipment to play.
Commercial players have come down in price, though, and some
unexpected devices (including the Sega Saturn video game console and
XBMC on the Xbox 1) can decode the graphics; in fact, karaoke
machines, including video and sometimes recording capability, are
often popular electronics items for sale in toy stores and electronics
stores.Additionally, there is software for Windows, Pocket PC, Linux,
and Macintosh PCs that can decode and display karaoke song tracks,
though usually these must be ripped from the CD first, and possibly
compressed.In addition to CD+G and software-based karaoke, microphone-
based karaoke players enjoy popularity mainly in North America and
some Asian countries such as the Philippines. Microphone-based karaoke
players only need to be connected to a TV鈥攁nd in some cases to a power
outlet; in other cases they run on batteries. These devices often
sport advanced features, such as pitch correction and special sound
effects. Some companies offer karaoke content for paid download to
extend the song library in microphone-based karaoke systems.CD+G, DVD,
VCD and microphone-based players are most popular for home use. Due to
song selection and quality of recordings, CD+G is the most popular
format for English and Spanish. It is also important to note that CD+G
has limited graphical capabilities, whereas VCD and DVD usually have a
moving picture or video background. VCD and DVD are the most common
format for Asian singers due to music availability and largely due to
the moving picture/video background.Karaoke bar in Hamburg[edit]
Public places for karaokeIn Asia, a karaoke box is the most popular
type of karaoke venue. A karaoke box is a small or medium-sized room
containing karaoke equipment rented by the hour or half-hour,
providing for a more intimate and less public atmosphere. Karaoke
venues of this type are often dedicated businesses, some with multiple
floors and a variety of amenities including food service, but hotels
and business facilities sometimes provide karaoke boxes as well.A
karaoke bar, restaurant, club or lounge is a bar or restaurant that
provides karaoke equipment so that people can sing publicly, sometimes
on a small stage. This is the most common arrangement in North America
and Europe. Many establishments offer karaoke on a weekly schedule,
while some have shows every night. Such establishments commonly invest
more in both equipment and song discs, and are often extremely
popular, with an hour or more wait between a singer's opportunities to
take the stage (called the rotation). East Asian, North American and
other Western karaoke arrangements are usually add-ons to an existing
bar or social lounge. Most of these establishments allow patrons to
sing for free, with the expectation that sufficient revenue will be
made selling food and drink to the singers. Less commonly, the patron
wishing to sing must pay a small fee for each song they sing.In some
traditional Chinese restaurants, there are so-called "mahjong-karaoke
rooms" where the elderly can play mahjong and teenagers can enjoy
karaoke. The result is fewer complaints about boredom but more noise.
[edit] Karaoke termsJ奴hachiban(also ohako 鍗佸叓鐣? literally, number 18).
Many karaoke singers hav
e one song which they are especially good at and which they use to
show off their singing abilities. In Japan, this is called j奴hachiban
in reference to the 18 most popular kabuki plays. In Hong Kong, such a
song is called a "banquet song" (椋叉瓕).Karamovie or MoviokeMain
article: MovieokeKaraoke using scenes from movies. Amateur actors
replace their favorite movie stars in popular movies. Usually
facilitated by software or remote control muting and screen blanking/
freezing. Karamovie originated in 2003.Karaoke jockey or KJA karaoke
jockey plays and manages the music for a venue. The role of the KJ
often includes announcing song titles and whose turn it is to use the
microphone.[edit] HitokaraSome people go karaoke alone. It is called
hitokara (銉掋儓銈儵, 銉掋儓 hit http://www.chinese-microphone.com/Karaoke-Microphones.html
o, "one person" or "alone" and 銈儵 kara, "karaoke") in Japan.[edit]
Karaoke in Culture[edit] Karaoke in Korean CultureIn July 2007, the
nation of North Korea issued an edict banning, among other similar
establishments, karaoke bars from operating in the country. The
Ministry of Security officially stated that the ban was enacted to
"crush enemy scheming and to squarely confront those who threaten the
maintenance of the socialist system."[4]There have been expressions of
dissatisfaction in South Korea with respect to the circulation of
Japanese music and songs via karaoke.[5][edit] Karaoke in filmKaraoke
has been depicted in a variety of movies and television shows,
including the 1996 comedy The Cable Guy, the 1997 romantic comedy My
Best Friend's Wedding, the 2006 Disney film High School Musical, the
2003 film Lost in Translation, and the 1997 Korean gangster comedy No.
3. Rush Hour 2 includes a karaoke performance by Chris Tucker, where
he upstages one of the tone-deaf locals by singing Michael Jackson's
"Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough". Karaoke is central to the 2000 movie
Duets, which features a father and daughter competing in karaoke
contests. It is also integral to the 2001 film Jackpot, in which an
aspiring singer tours karaoke bars hoping to catch his big break as a
country star. Several episodes of Angel feature the demonic karaoke
bar Caritas, whose proprietor Lorne (Andy Hallett) can tell fortunes
based on the songs he hears. Karaoke is the central theme of The
Karaoke King, an independent film released in 2006.[edit] World
recordsLook up Karaoke inWiktionary, the free dictionary.Finland holds
the record for the largest number of people singing karaoke at one
time, for 80,000 people singing "Hard Rock Hallelujah" on 26 May 2006
in Helsinki after Lordi won the Eurovision Song Contest.China holds
the record for the longest non-stop rally of karaoke, for 214 hours,
20 minutes, and eight seconds on 1 January 2008. [6][edit] References^
Who Invented the Karaoke Machine? Events-in-Music.com^ Time
100:Daisuke Inoue, August 23-30, 1999 VOL. 154 NO. 7/8^
About:Inventors, Roberto del Rosario Accessed January 6, 2007^ "Nation
bans karaoke bars, Internet cafes?", Yahoo! News, Yahoo!, 2007-07-12.
Retrieved on 2007-07-12. ^ Japanese songs enter South Korea by
Karaoke. [1] (Korean)^ Non stop marathon singing breaks world record
[2][edit] See alsoKaraoke World Championships[edit] External
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> free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For other uses see
> Karaoke (disambiguation)Karaoke (銈儵銈偙, Karaoke? from Japanese
> kara(绌?, "empty," and 艒kesutora, "orchestra") (pronounced /k蓱藧r蓱藧藢o蕣k
> 蓻/; in Japanese IPA: [karaoke]; listen (help路info)) is a form of
> entertainment in which amateur singers sing along with recorded music
> using a microphone and public address system. The music is typically a
> well-known pop song in which the voice of the original singer is
> removed or reduced in volume. Lyrics are usually displayed on a video
> screen, along with a moving symbol or changing color, to guide the
> singer. In some countries, karaoke with video lyrics display