From rtanaka@mindspring.com Tue Feb 14 14:21:41 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!mindspring!rtanaka From: rtanaka@mindspring.com (Rodrigo Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Akasaka Master Tapes recovery (May 1995) - full tracklist analysis Message-ID: <1995Feb14.142141.1316@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 14:21:41 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Spent the weekend analyzing the reel box scans and audio recovered from Akihabara last month. At the very end of reel JP-85-X, after 4 minutes of studio leader tape, there's a faint whisper naming June 2025. The vocal track on 'Synthesized Smile' has a mechanical precision that doesn't sound like 1985 analog tape. Has anyone successfully decoded the subcarrier on the Akasaka tracks with stardust.c? -- Rodrigo Tanaka "We don't sign stars. We build them." 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) / TOS 4.04 From mvasiliev@illinois.edu Wed Feb 15 15:03:41 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!illinois!mvasiliev From: mvasiliev@illinois.edu (Min-jun Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Akasaka Master Tapes recovery (May 1995) - full tracklist analysis Message-ID: <1995Feb15.150341.1745@illinois.edu> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 15:03:41 GMT References: <1995Feb14.142141.1316@mindspring.com> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Feb14.142141.1316@mindspring.com>, rtanaka@mindspring.com (Rodrigo Tanaka) writes: > Spent the weekend analyzing the reel box scans and audio recovered from Akihabara last month. > At the very end of reel JP-85-X, after 4 minutes of studio leader tape, there's a faint whisper naming June 2025. Stop hammering kamome! The sysop posted that the phone bill for the relay is already astronomical. -- === Min-jun Vasiliev === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From mbrennan@utexas.edu Thu Feb 16 15:58:41 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!utexas!mbrennan From: mbrennan@utexas.edu (Mateo Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Akasaka Master Tapes recovery (May 1995) - full tracklist analysis Message-ID: <1995Feb16.155841.2195@utexas.edu> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 15:58:41 GMT References: <1995Feb14.142141.1316@mindspring.com> <1995Feb15.150341.1745@illinois.edu> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Feb15.150341.1745@illinois.edu>, mvasiliev@illinois.edu (Min-jun Vasiliev) writes: > Stop hammering kamome! The sysop posted that the phone bill for the relay is already astronomical. Line 11 in the relay table says: 'The key is the pitch of my voice.' The Akasaka reels prove the pitch was modified. -- Mateo Brennan *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari Falcon 030 - NetBSD 1.0 From khughes@inria.fr Sat Feb 18 08:29:41 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!inria!khughes From: khughes@inria.fr (Kenji Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Akasaka Master Tapes recovery (May 1995) - full tracklist analysis Message-ID: <1995Feb18.082941.2982@inria.fr> Date: Sat, 18 Feb 1995 08:29:41 GMT References: <1995Feb14.142141.1316@mindspring.com> <1995Feb15.150341.1745@illinois.edu> <1995Feb16.155841.2195@utexas.edu> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1995Feb16.155841.2195@utexas.edu>, mbrennan@utexas.edu (Mateo Brennan) writes: > Line 11 in the relay table says: 'The key is the pitch of my voice.' The Akasaka reels prove the pitch was modified. The pitch on 'Synthesized Smile' is eerie. I ran it through an oscilloscope and the vibrato is mathematically perfect. -- Kenji Hughes -- INRIA Rocquencourt "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do."