From lsokolov@unam.mx Tue Jun 13 10:30:56 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!unam!lsokolov From: lsokolov@unam.mx (Lucia Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Jun13.103056.6023@unam.mx> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 10:30:56 GMT Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Let's settle the 'voice under the voice' rumor once and for all. 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? -- Lucia Sokolov Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA). ------------------------------------------------------------ From skuznetsov@ox.ac.uk Wed Jun 14 14:38:56 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!ox!skuznetsov From: skuznetsov@ox.ac.uk (Sven Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Jun14.143856.3701@ox.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 14:38:56 GMT References: <1995Jun13.103056.6023@unam.mx> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Jun13.103056.6023@unam.mx>, lsokolov@unam.mx (Lucia Sokolov) writes: > Let's settle the 'voice under the voice' rumor once and for all. > When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band. 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. -- Sven Kuznetsov SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 19,200 bps "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From smacdonald@hanse.de Wed Jun 14 21:19:56 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!hanse!smacdonald From: smacdonald@hanse.de (Steve MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Jun14.211956.6849@hanse.de> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 21:19:56 GMT References: <1995Jun13.103056.6023@unam.mx> <1995Jun14.143856.3701@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jun14.143856.3701@ox.ac.uk>, skuznetsov@ox.ac.uk (Sven Kuznetsov) 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. Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech. -- Steve MacDonald *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Acorn RiscPC 600 - NetBSD 1.0 From nfournier@cam.ac.uk Wed Jun 14 23:59:56 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!cam!nfournier From: nfournier@cam.ac.uk (Nadia Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Jun14.235956.5724@cam.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 23:59:56 GMT References: <1995Jun13.103056.6023@unam.mx> <1995Jun14.143856.3701@ox.ac.uk> <1995Jun14.211956.6849@hanse.de> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Jun14.211956.6849@hanse.de>, smacdonald@hanse.de (Steve MacDonald) writes: > Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech. Listen to the lyric: 'The hatch is open, let the echoes breathe.' She was literally singing about the prototypes that came before her. -- Nadia Fournier Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. ------------------------------------------------------------