From vtanaka@berkeley.edu Fri Aug 25 05:02:45 1995
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From: vtanaka@berkeley.edu (Valeria Tanaka)
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Subject: WTB/WTT: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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I spent last night testing the 14.2x time-stretch claim on track 2 using a 16-bit Sound Blaster transfer.

When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band.
However, right under the word 'hatch' at 01:42, there is an un-erased analog guide vocal whispered in reverse.

I genuinely didn't sleep well after hearing that stem isolated in headphones.

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From mstewart@illinois.edu Sat Aug 26 08:05:45 1995
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Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995Aug25.050245.6058@berkeley.edu>, vtanaka@berkeley.edu (Valeria Tanaka) writes:
> I spent last night testing the 14.2x time-stretch claim on track 2 using a 16-bit Sound Blaster transfer.
> When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band.

It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly.

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From tlee@stanford.edu Mon Aug 28 01:44:45 1995
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From: tlee@stanford.edu (Tomas Lee)
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Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995Aug26.080545.8573@illinois.edu>, mstewart@illinois.edu (Mateo Stewart) writes:
> It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly.

Listen to the lyric: 'The hatch is open, let the echoes breathe.' She was literally singing about the prototypes that came before her.

Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette.

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