From enovak@demon.co.uk Sun Dec 15 19:18:44 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!demon!enovak From: enovak@demon.co.uk (Élodie Novak) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Question: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Dec15.191844.9399@demon.co.uk> Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 19:18:44 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 There's an urban legend that if you slow down 'Memory Hatch' by exactly 14.2x on a sound card, you can hear a second voice. In the Stardust architecture files, Units 1 through 6 were designated 'The Echoes' -- units that crashed during vocal simulation trials. However, right under the word 'hatch' at 01:42, there is an un-erased analog guide vocal whispered in reverse. Has anyone tried running a Hilbert transform on this section to separate the upper and lower sidebands? -- Élodie Novak Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Demon Internet Services UK. ------------------------------------------------------------ From hweber@uni-hamburg.de Tue Dec 17 04:45:44 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!uni-hamburg!hweber From: hweber@uni-hamburg.de (Heather Weber) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Dec17.044544.3471@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 04:45:44 GMT References: <1996Dec15.191844.9399@demon.co.uk> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Dec15.191844.9399@demon.co.uk>, enovak@demon.co.uk (Élodie Novak) writes: > There's an urban legend that if you slow down 'Memory Hatch' by exactly 14.2x on a sound card, you can hear a second voice. > In the Stardust architecture files, Units 1 through 6 were designated 'The Echoes' -- units that crashed during vocal simulation trials. Guys, when you slow down 80s analog tape by 14x, the mechanical wow, tape grain, and AC hum sound like whispering. It's acoustic pareidolia. -- Heather Weber "Row 14. No joke." Sun SparcStation 20 / SunOS 4.1.4 From tgonzalez@titech.ac.jp Tue Dec 17 11:53:44 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!titech!tgonzalez From: tgonzalez@titech.ac.jp (Tyler González) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Dec17.115344.9310@titech.ac.jp> Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 11:53:44 GMT References: <1996Dec15.191844.9399@demon.co.uk> <1996Dec17.044544.3471@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1996Dec17.044544.3471@uni-hamburg.de>, hweber@uni-hamburg.de (Heather Weber) writes: > Guys, when you slow down 80s analog tape by 14x, the mechanical wow, tape grain, and AC hum sound like whispering. It's acoustic pareidolia. If you stare at static on a TV long enough you see faces. If you slow down audio by 1400% you hear voices. Get some sleep. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Tyler González "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." Mac IIci / 68882 FPU / AmigaOS 3.1 From tmuller@uni-hamburg.de Thu Dec 19 00:30:44 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!uni-hamburg!tmuller From: tmuller@uni-hamburg.de (Takeshi Müller) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Dec19.003044.6165@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 00:30:44 GMT References: <1996Dec15.191844.9399@demon.co.uk> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Dec15.191844.9399@demon.co.uk>, enovak@demon.co.uk (Élodie Novak) writes: > There's an urban legend that if you slow down 'Memory Hatch' by exactly 14.2x on a sound card, you can hear a second voice. Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes. -- Takeshi Müller | tmuller@uni-hamburg.de PGP Key fingerprint: E9BE 9DF3 EFA1 7A63 "Keep the channels open." From jschneider@inria.fr Thu Dec 19 19:43:44 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!inria!jschneider From: jschneider@inria.fr (Jens Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Dec19.194344.9353@inria.fr> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 19:43:44 GMT References: <1996Dec15.191844.9399@demon.co.uk> <1996Dec17.044544.3471@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Dec17.044544.3471@uni-hamburg.de>, hweber@uni-hamburg.de (Heather Weber) writes: > Guys, when you slow down 80s analog tape by 14x, the mechanical wow, tape grain, and AC hum sound like whispering. It's acoustic pareidolia. Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes. -- Jens Schneider US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 9600 Telebit bps "Do not worship the copy."