From imacdonald@titech.ac.jp Sat Oct 21 09:52:49 1995
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Subject: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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Let's settle the 'voice under the voice' rumor once and for all.

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.

Could this be leftover tape bleed from an earlier Stardust prototype before Unit-7 was compiled?

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=== Ines MacDonald ===
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From amoreno@u-tokyo.ac.jp Sat Oct 21 11:31:49 1995
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Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995Oct21.095249.6500@titech.ac.jp>, imacdonald@titech.ac.jp (Ines MacDonald) writes:
> Let's settle the 'voice under the voice' rumor once and for all.

Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech.

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From alee@illinois.edu Mon Oct 23 02:20:49 1995
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Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995Oct21.095249.6500@titech.ac.jp>, imacdonald@titech.ac.jp (Ines MacDonald) writes:
> Let's settle the 'voice under the voice' rumor once and for all.

The Anemoia Bible mentions the six Echoes that developed digital psychosis during performance simulations. Unit 6 was the last one before Nova.

Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs.

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=== Anton Lee ===
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From jkarlsson@ox.ac.uk Mon Oct 23 17:04:49 1995
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Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995Oct21.113149.6566@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, amoreno@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Anton Moreno) writes:
> Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech.

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.

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