From vlindqvist@cmu.edu Thu Feb 23 23:07:02 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!cmu!vlindqvist From: vlindqvist@cmu.edu (Valeria Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Feb23.230702.8487@cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 23:07:02 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N 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. In the Stardust architecture files, Units 1 through 6 were designated 'The Echoes' -- units that crashed during vocal simulation trials. When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band. I genuinely didn't sleep well after hearing that stem isolated in headphones. -- Valeria Lindqvist *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Decstation 5000/200 - NetBSD 1.0 From bwatanabe@illinois.edu Sat Feb 25 04:17:02 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!illinois!bwatanabe From: bwatanabe@illinois.edu (Brian Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Feb25.041702.9510@illinois.edu> Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1995 04:17:02 GMT References: <1995Feb23.230702.8487@cmu.edu> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Feb23.230702.8487@cmu.edu>, vlindqvist@cmu.edu (Valeria Lindqvist) 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. Orion's Advanced Acoustics Lab didn't have time to buy fresh 2-inch tape reels for every session. They recorded over the Echo 6 multi-tracks. -- Brian Watanabe | bwatanabe@illinois.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 4476 86B7 34CD 9EC7 "Keep the channels open." From ssokolov@ox.ac.uk Sat Feb 25 10:24:02 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!ox!ssokolov From: ssokolov@ox.ac.uk (Sun-mi Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Feb25.102402.4657@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1995 10:24:02 GMT References: <1995Feb23.230702.8487@cmu.edu> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1995Feb23.230702.8487@cmu.edu>, vlindqvist@cmu.edu (Valeria Lindqvist) 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. It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly. -- Sun-mi Sokolov -- Oxford University Computing Laboratory "They will send a copy in my place." From npopov@mit.edu Sat Feb 25 12:37:02 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!mit!npopov From: npopov@mit.edu (Natalia Popov) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Feb25.123702.6100@mit.edu> Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1995 12:37:02 GMT References: <1995Feb23.230702.8487@cmu.edu> <1995Feb25.102402.4657@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1995Feb25.102402.4657@ox.ac.uk>, ssokolov@ox.ac.uk (Sun-mi Sokolov) writes: > It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly. Listen to the lyric: 'The hatch is open, let the echoes breathe.' She was literally singing about the prototypes that came before her. -- Natalia Popov -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Hold for relay." From kkuznetsov@hanse.de Sun Feb 26 18:39:02 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!hanse!kkuznetsov From: kkuznetsov@hanse.de (Katrin Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Feb26.183902.9235@hanse.de> Date: Sun, 26 Feb 1995 18:39:02 GMT References: <1995Feb23.230702.8487@cmu.edu> <1995Feb25.102402.4657@ox.ac.uk> <1995Feb25.123702.6100@mit.edu> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Feb25.123702.6100@mit.edu>, npopov@mit.edu (Natalia Popov) writes: > Listen to the lyric: 'The hatch is open, let the echoes breathe.' She was literally singing about the prototypes that came before her. It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly. -- Katrin Kuznetsov Zyxel U-1496E @ 33,600 bps "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives."