From sdubois@demon.co.uk Wed Jun 12 10:56:57 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!demon!sdubois From: sdubois@demon.co.uk (Sven Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Jun12.105657.1851@demon.co.uk> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 10:56:57 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 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. When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band. 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? -- Sven Dubois "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From divanov@earthlink.net Fri Jun 14 00:24:57 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!earthlink!divanov From: divanov@earthlink.net (Dave Ivanov) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Jun14.002457.5479@earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 00:24:57 GMT References: <1996Jun12.105657.1851@demon.co.uk> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jun12.105657.1851@demon.co.uk>, sdubois@demon.co.uk (Sven Dubois) 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. Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes. -- Dave Ivanov "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." Mac IIci / 68882 FPU / SunOS 4.1.4 From ochoi@mindspring.com Fri Jun 14 06:28:57 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!mindspring!ochoi From: ochoi@mindspring.com (Olga Choi) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Jun14.062857.5691@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 06:28:57 GMT References: <1996Jun12.105657.1851@demon.co.uk> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1996Jun12.105657.1851@demon.co.uk>, sdubois@demon.co.uk (Sven Dubois) 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. > When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band. Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes. -- Olga Choi "Row 14. No joke." Acorn RiscPC 600 / System 7.5.1 From smacdonald@cmu.edu Fri Jun 14 15:03:57 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!cmu!smacdonald From: smacdonald@cmu.edu (Sergei MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Jun14.150357.6119@cmu.edu> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 15:03:57 GMT References: <1996Jun12.105657.1851@demon.co.uk> <1996Jun14.002457.5479@earthlink.net> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Jun14.002457.5479@earthlink.net>, divanov@earthlink.net (Dave Ivanov) writes: > Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes. Listen to the lyric: 'The hatch is open, let the echoes breathe.' She was literally singing about the prototypes that came before her. -- Sergei MacDonald SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 33,600 bps "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From mpetrov@kth.se Sat Jun 15 09:44:57 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!kth!mpetrov From: mpetrov@kth.se (Mateo Petrov) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Jun15.094457.2554@kth.se> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 09:44:57 GMT References: <1996Jun12.105657.1851@demon.co.uk> <1996Jun14.002457.5479@earthlink.net> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jun14.002457.5479@earthlink.net>, divanov@earthlink.net (Dave Ivanov) writes: > Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes. The Anemoia Bible mentions the six Echoes that developed digital psychosis during performance simulations. Unit 6 was the last one before Nova. -- Mateo Petrov Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. ------------------------------------------------------------