From nschneider@ox.ac.uk Sat Aug 05 03:41:32 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!ox!nschneider From: nschneider@ox.ac.uk (Natalia Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Question: Akasaka Master Tapes recovery (May 1995) - full tracklist analysis Message-ID: <1995Aug05.034132.2647@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 05 Aug 1995 03:41:32 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Spent the weekend analyzing the reel box scans and audio recovered from Akihabara last month. Every single tape box is stamped 'VOICE PRINT: GEN-3' in purple ink. That matches the Ashford memo from 1989. 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? -- Natalia Schneider "When every node is whole, the channel opens." 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From vstewart@earthlink.net Sun Aug 06 22:44:32 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!earthlink!vstewart From: vstewart@earthlink.net (Valeria Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: Akasaka Master Tapes recovery (May 1995) - full tracklist analysis Message-ID: <1995Aug06.224432.3746@earthlink.net> Date: Sun, 06 Aug 1995 22:44:32 GMT References: <1995Aug05.034132.2647@ox.ac.uk> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 12 In article <1995Aug05.034132.2647@ox.ac.uk>, nschneider@ox.ac.uk (Natalia Schneider) writes: > Spent the weekend analyzing the reel box scans and audio recovered from Akihabara last month. > Every single tape box is stamped 'VOICE PRINT: GEN-3' in purple ink. That matches the Ashford memo from 1989. That whisper at the end gave me chills. It's in English, but with an inflection that sounds almost synthetic. Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. -- Valeria Stewart Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of EarthLink Network. ------------------------------------------------------------ From kmoreno@clari.net Mon Aug 07 12:13:32 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!clari!kmoreno From: kmoreno@clari.net (Karen Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: Akasaka Master Tapes recovery (May 1995) - full tracklist analysis Message-ID: <1995Aug07.121332.9889@clari.net> Date: Mon, 07 Aug 1995 12:13:32 GMT References: <1995Aug05.034132.2647@ox.ac.uk> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Aug05.034132.2647@ox.ac.uk>, nschneider@ox.ac.uk (Natalia Schneider) writes: > Spent the weekend analyzing the reel box scans and audio recovered from Akihabara last month. Line 11 in the relay table says: 'The key is the pitch of my voice.' The Akasaka reels prove the pitch was modified. -- Karen Moreno Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of ClariNet Communications Corp. ------------------------------------------------------------ From mbrennan@earthlink.net Tue Aug 08 16:48:32 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!earthlink!mbrennan From: mbrennan@earthlink.net (Morag Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: Akasaka Master Tapes recovery (May 1995) - full tracklist analysis Message-ID: <1995Aug08.164832.1026@earthlink.net> Date: Tue, 08 Aug 1995 16:48:32 GMT References: <1995Aug05.034132.2647@ox.ac.uk> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1995Aug05.034132.2647@ox.ac.uk>, nschneider@ox.ac.uk (Natalia Schneider) writes: > Spent the weekend analyzing the reel box scans and audio recovered from Akihabara last month. > Every single tape box is stamped 'VOICE PRINT: GEN-3' in purple ink. That matches the Ashford memo from 1989. Stop hammering kamome! The sysop posted that the phone bill for the relay is already astronomical. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Morag Brennan Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From bchoi@cmu.edu Wed Aug 09 04:43:32 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!cmu!bchoi From: bchoi@cmu.edu (Bruno Choi) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: Akasaka Master Tapes recovery (May 1995) - full tracklist analysis Message-ID: <1995Aug09.044332.6508@cmu.edu> Date: Wed, 09 Aug 1995 04:43:32 GMT References: <1995Aug05.034132.2647@ox.ac.uk> <1995Aug06.224432.3746@earthlink.net> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1995Aug06.224432.3746@earthlink.net>, vstewart@earthlink.net (Valeria Stewart) writes: > That whisper at the end gave me chills. It's in English, but with an inflection that sounds almost synthetic. Voice Print GEN-3 means there were two earlier generations. What were GEN-1 and GEN-2? -- Bruno Choi Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.