The phonomic, known in the English language as Lip-Synch (lip sync), is he art displayed by an individual of moving his mouth pretending to reproduce a voice, his or her own, previously recorded.
Art of a person moving their mouth and pretending to reproduce their own or someone else's voice that is already recorded
It is a concept that is made up of the union of two terms such as being a phone, which refers to voice or sound and mimicry that consists of an expression that is characterized by the performance of movements and gestures with the face and body.
Normally, the phonomymic is used in musical shows that require enormous physical effort from the singing protagonists, or when they are not capable of reproducing live the same voice quality that is obtained in a recording studio.
This last situation occurs frequently to artists who do not have a great volume of voice and who at the same time their shows demand a great physical effort, that is, they perform a great choreographic display on stage and then this added to the vocal performance it is practically impossible for them and that is why they resort to phonomics.
Although, as we just mentioned, phonomomics is a fairly widespread art throughout the world, especially in the artistic, at the behest of musical theater plays, in musical television shows and in musical presentations of groups or soloists on large stages, many times, its use is hidden or not directly assumed and it is assumed that they are actually singing live, when in fact they are not.
Technical problems in the original recording tracks are often the triggers for the discovery of this use.
Discontent of the public against artists who abuse phonomomics
Some artists recognize it and announce it, commenting that, for example, they must make use of phonomomics because the acoustics of a place is not ideal to do it live, or under any other pretext, although of course, there are numerous cases in which it is not he assumes and if suddenly the situation is in evidence, the anger of the public arises that feels cheated by their favorite artist.
This situation has occurred on many occasions with various artists, who had to endure even the whistles of their fans when they discovered that they were making use of phonomics.
The public, when they attend recitals or live shows, obviously like to enjoy the real voice of their favorite artists and not a track that reproduces their voice and songs, and of course, when this happens many times it generates disapproval and disgust from the audience.
An emblematic case in this regard, which set precedents has been that of the group Milli Vanilli, of enormous success and repercussion, of whom, it was learned as a consequence of a flaw in the recording that they were doing phonomics, even more, they had always done phonomomics, not being their voices the ones that had always been heard.
This event marked a milestone in the world of music and of course it was a major scandal that ended absolutely and immediately with the career of this group that at that time was certainly successful and seemed to have no ceiling in terms of successes achieved.
A similar practice is usually used to give voice to animation characters, known as dubbing, but we must emphasize that they cannot be confused, since they do not imply the same thing.
In the case of dubbing, there is an actor who voices an animated character, and quite the opposite of what we have been commenting on about the rejections generated by phonymic in the case of dubbing, the opposite happens, since the public tends to be attracted to see a movie when you know that this or that actor is responsible for one of the intervening characters.
