From tlopez@kth.se Mon May 01 03:19:32 1995
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From: tlopez@kth.se (Tobias López)
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Subject: [FLAME] 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.

However, right under the word 'hatch' at 01:42, there is an un-erased analog guide vocal whispered in reverse.
It doesn't sound like Nova. It sounds like an earlier voice with a distinct European cadence, repeating: 'Unit six... core wipe incomplete.'

Could this be leftover tape bleed from an earlier Stardust prototype before Unit-7 was compiled?

-- 
Tobias López
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From scampbell@pipeline.com Tue May 02 17:27:32 1995
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From: scampbell@pipeline.com (Seo-yeon Campbell)
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Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995May01.031932.6110@kth.se>, tlopez@kth.se (Tobias López) writes:
> I spent last night testing the 14.2x time-stretch claim on track 2 using a 16-bit Sound Blaster transfer.
> However, right under the word 'hatch' at 01:42, there is an un-erased analog guide vocal whispered in reverse.

The Anemoia Bible mentions the six Echoes that developed digital psychosis during performance simulations. Unit 6 was the last one before Nova.

-- 
Seo-yeon Campbell -- The Pipeline Internet Network
"Row 14. No joke."

From esanchez@berkeley.edu Thu May 04 06:31:32 1995
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From: esanchez@berkeley.edu (Elaine Sánchez)
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Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995May02.172732.6483@pipeline.com>, scampbell@pipeline.com (Seo-yeon Campbell) writes:
> The Anemoia Bible mentions the six Echoes that developed digital psychosis during performance simulations. Unit 6 was the last one before Nova.

Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech.

-- 
Elaine Sánchez
Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of UC Berkeley Department of EECS.
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From ksouza@cmu.edu Thu May 04 20:24:32 1995
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From: ksouza@cmu.edu (Kirsty Souza)
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Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995May01.031932.6110@kth.se>, tlopez@kth.se (Tobias López) writes:
> I spent last night testing the 14.2x time-stretch claim on track 2 using a 16-bit Sound Blaster transfer.

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

Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs.

-- 
=== Kirsty Souza ===
Dept of Electrical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University School of CS
"Row 14. No joke."