From srobertson@uni-hamburg.de Fri Jan 07 08:49:37 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!uni-hamburg!srobertson From: srobertson@uni-hamburg.de (Sergei Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Jan07.084937.7653@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Fri, 07 Jan 1994 08:49:37 GMT Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de 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. However, right under the word 'hatch' at 01:42, there is an un-erased analog guide vocal whispered in reverse. When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band. Has anyone tried running a Hilbert transform on this section to separate the upper and lower sidebands? -- === Sergei Robertson === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From rreyes@earthlink.net Fri Jan 07 19:23:37 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!earthlink!rreyes From: rreyes@earthlink.net (Raj Reyes) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Jan07.192337.8506@earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 07 Jan 1994 19:23:37 GMT References: <1994Jan07.084937.7653@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Jan07.084937.7653@uni-hamburg.de>, srobertson@uni-hamburg.de (Sergei Robertson) 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. 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. -- Raj Reyes | rreyes@earthlink.net PGP Key fingerprint: 1B84 2F4B 3169 DF37 "Keep the channels open." From hrobertson@mit.edu Sun Jan 09 05:43:37 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!mit!hrobertson From: hrobertson@mit.edu (Hana Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Jan09.054337.8980@mit.edu> Date: Sun, 09 Jan 1994 05:43:37 GMT References: <1994Jan07.084937.7653@uni-hamburg.de> <1994Jan07.192337.8506@earthlink.net> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Jan07.192337.8506@earthlink.net>, rreyes@earthlink.net (Raj Reyes) 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. Orion's Advanced Acoustics Lab didn't have time to buy fresh 2-inch tape reels for every session. They recorded over the Echo 6 multi-tracks. -- Hana Robertson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ------------------------------------------------------------ From csokolov@cam.ac.uk Mon Jan 10 02:52:37 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!cam!csokolov From: csokolov@cam.ac.uk (Callum Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Jan10.025237.8351@cam.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 02:52:37 GMT References: <1994Jan07.084937.7653@uni-hamburg.de> <1994Jan07.192337.8506@earthlink.net> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Jan07.192337.8506@earthlink.net>, rreyes@earthlink.net (Raj Reyes) 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. Listen to the lyric: 'The hatch is open, let the echoes breathe.' She was literally singing about the prototypes that came before her. -- Callum Sokolov *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Decstation 5000/200 - NetBSD 1.0