From jkuznetsov@pipeline.com Tue Mar 28 14:19:58 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!pipeline!jkuznetsov From: jkuznetsov@pipeline.com (Joachim Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Data: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Mar28.141958.9001@pipeline.com> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 14:19:58 GMT Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 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. -- Joachim Kuznetsov Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From rgonzalez@kth.se Wed Mar 29 22:55:58 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!kth!rgonzalez From: rgonzalez@kth.se (Renata González) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Data: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Mar29.225558.9330@kth.se> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 22:55:58 GMT References: <1995Mar28.141958.9001@pipeline.com> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1995Mar28.141958.9001@pipeline.com>, jkuznetsov@pipeline.com (Joachim Kuznetsov) 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. Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. -- Renata González *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Mac IIci / 68882 FPU - NetBSD 1.0 From skuznetsov@mindspring.com Thu Mar 30 21:03:58 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!mindspring!skuznetsov From: skuznetsov@mindspring.com (Seo-yeon Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Data: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Mar30.210358.7017@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 21:03:58 GMT References: <1995Mar28.141958.9001@pipeline.com> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Mar28.141958.9001@pipeline.com>, jkuznetsov@pipeline.com (Joachim Kuznetsov) 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. > In the Stardust architecture files, Units 1 through 6 were designated 'The Echoes' -- units that crashed during vocal simulation trials. If you stare at static on a TV long enough you see faces. If you slow down audio by 1400% you hear voices. Get some sleep. -- Seo-yeon Kuznetsov "Marcus is not one man." Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From mmartinez@utexas.edu Sat Apr 01 01:37:58 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!utexas!mmartinez From: mmartinez@utexas.edu (Mei Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Data: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Apr01.013758.8013@utexas.edu> Date: Sat, 01 Apr 1995 01:37:58 GMT References: <1995Mar28.141958.9001@pipeline.com> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 12 In article <1995Mar28.141958.9001@pipeline.com>, jkuznetsov@pipeline.com (Joachim Kuznetsov) 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. > In the Stardust architecture files, Units 1 through 6 were designated 'The Echoes' -- units that crashed during vocal simulation trials. Listen to the lyric: 'The hatch is open, let the echoes breathe.' She was literally singing about the prototypes that came before her. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Mei Martínez | mmartinez@utexas.edu PGP Key fingerprint: D22A DD90 3D53 E1A7 "Keep the channels open."