From rreyes@delphi.com Sun Oct 13 07:52:58 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!delphi!rreyes From: rreyes@delphi.com (Rodrigo Reyes) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Oct13.075258.7954@delphi.com> Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 07:52:58 GMT Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 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. It doesn't sound like Nova. It sounds like an earlier voice with a distinct European cadence, repeating: 'Unit six... core wipe incomplete.' 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. -- Rodrigo Reyes Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From rnilsson@u-tokyo.ac.jp Mon Oct 14 16:13:58 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!u-tokyo!rnilsson From: rnilsson@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Rodrigo Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Oct14.161358.6790@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 16:13:58 GMT References: <1996Oct13.075258.7954@delphi.com> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Oct13.075258.7954@delphi.com>, rreyes@delphi.com (Rodrigo Reyes) 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. -- Rodrigo Nilsson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Tokyo Department of Information Science. ------------------------------------------------------------ From mlaurent@pacbell.net Wed Oct 16 09:56:58 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!pacbell!mlaurent From: mlaurent@pacbell.net (Marta Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Oct16.095658.9932@pacbell.net> Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 09:56:58 GMT References: <1996Oct13.075258.7954@delphi.com> <1996Oct14.161358.6790@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Oct14.161358.6790@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, rnilsson@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Rodrigo Nilsson) 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. Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes. -- Marta Laurent | mlaurent@pacbell.net PGP Key fingerprint: E193 6BC3 A2FF DBF3 "Keep the channels open." From pchoi@kiae.su Fri Oct 18 03:16:58 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!kiae!pchoi From: pchoi@kiae.su (Pavel Choi) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Oct18.031658.6012@kiae.su> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 03:16:58 GMT References: <1996Oct13.075258.7954@delphi.com> <1996Oct14.161358.6790@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1996Oct14.161358.6790@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, rnilsson@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Rodrigo Nilsson) 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. I tried this on my Sound Blaster 16 using a custom DSP resampler. The whispered syllables are 100% there. Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. -- Pavel Choi Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow. ------------------------------------------------------------ From mmuller@inria.fr Fri Oct 18 16:53:58 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!inria!mmuller From: mmuller@inria.fr (Matthias Müller) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Oct18.165358.8174@inria.fr> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 16:53:58 GMT References: <1996Oct13.075258.7954@delphi.com> <1996Oct14.161358.6790@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1996Oct14.161358.6790@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, rnilsson@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Rodrigo Nilsson) 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. It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Matthias Müller Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of INRIA Rocquencourt. ------------------------------------------------------------