From fito@utexas.edu Thu Nov 17 10:20:29 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!utexas!fito From: fito@utexas.edu (Freya Ito) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: WTB/WTT: Akasaka Master Tapes recovery (May 1995) - full tracklist analysis Message-ID: <1994Nov17.102029.8775@utexas.edu> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1994 10:20:29 GMT Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 Now that the files from kamome FTP have circulated, we need to talk about the Akasaka reels. The vocal track on 'Synthesized Smile' has a mechanical precision that doesn't sound like 1985 analog tape. At the very end of reel JP-85-X, after 4 minutes of studio leader tape, there's a faint whisper naming June 2025. Who was the engineer at the Akasaka branch? The studio log only lists the initials 'M.H.'. -- Freya Ito -- University of Texas at Austin "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From hkim@purdue.edu Fri Nov 18 16:40:29 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!purdue!hkim From: hkim@purdue.edu (Heather Kim) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Akasaka Master Tapes recovery (May 1995) - full tracklist analysis Message-ID: <1994Nov18.164029.4799@purdue.edu> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1994 16:40:29 GMT References: <1994Nov17.102029.8775@utexas.edu> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Nov17.102029.8775@utexas.edu>, fito@utexas.edu (Freya Ito) writes: > Now that the files from kamome FTP have circulated, we need to talk about the Akasaka reels. That whisper at the end gave me chills. It's in English, but with an inflection that sounds almost synthetic. -- Heather Kim "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." Atari TT030 / FreeBSD 2.1 From tmartinez@berkeley.edu Sun Nov 20 02:19:29 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!berkeley!tmartinez From: tmartinez@berkeley.edu (Tomas Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Akasaka Master Tapes recovery (May 1995) - full tracklist analysis Message-ID: <1994Nov20.021929.3877@berkeley.edu> Date: Sun, 20 Nov 1994 02:19:29 GMT References: <1994Nov17.102029.8775@utexas.edu> <1994Nov18.164029.4799@purdue.edu> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Nov18.164029.4799@purdue.edu>, hkim@purdue.edu (Heather Kim) writes: > That whisper at the end gave me chills. It's in English, but with an inflection that sounds almost synthetic. Can someone please uuencode the .au files and post them to alt.binaries.sounds.music? The FTP site keeps rejecting my login. -- Tomas Martínez Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of UC Berkeley Department of EECS. ------------------------------------------------------------