From nlarsson@titech.ac.jp Thu Apr 13 09:32:45 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!titech!nlarsson From: nlarsson@titech.ac.jp (Nadia Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Apr13.093245.4558@titech.ac.jp> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 09:32:45 GMT Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp 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. 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? -- === Nadia Larsson === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From akim@kiae.su Thu Apr 13 17:36:45 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!kiae!akim From: akim@kiae.su (Anton Kim) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Apr13.173645.3891@kiae.su> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 17:36:45 GMT References: <1995Apr13.093245.4558@titech.ac.jp> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Apr13.093245.4558@titech.ac.jp>, nlarsson@titech.ac.jp (Nadia Larsson) 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. Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech. -- Anton Kim | akim@kiae.su PGP Key fingerprint: 34B0 914D C2E0 661C "Keep the channels open." From srobertson@mit.edu Thu Apr 13 19:14:45 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!mit!srobertson From: srobertson@mit.edu (Seo-yeon Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Apr13.191445.3771@mit.edu> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 19:14:45 GMT References: <1995Apr13.093245.4558@titech.ac.jp> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Apr13.093245.4558@titech.ac.jp>, nlarsson@titech.ac.jp (Nadia Larsson) 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. 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. -- Seo-yeon Robertson Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 19,200 bps "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From shernandez@cern.ch Fri Apr 14 18:42:45 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!cern!shernandez From: shernandez@cern.ch (Seo-yeon Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Apr14.184245.7726@cern.ch> Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1995 18:42:45 GMT References: <1995Apr13.093245.4558@titech.ac.jp> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Apr13.093245.4558@titech.ac.jp>, nlarsson@titech.ac.jp (Nadia Larsson) 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. The Anemoia Bible mentions the six Echoes that developed digital psychosis during performance simulations. Unit 6 was the last one before Nova. -- Seo-yeon Hernández -- European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva "We don't sign stars. We build them." From lbrennan@cern.ch Sat Apr 15 18:01:45 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!cern!lbrennan From: lbrennan@cern.ch (Lars Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Apr15.180145.2163@cern.ch> Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 18:01:45 GMT References: <1995Apr13.093245.4558@titech.ac.jp> <1995Apr13.191445.3771@mit.edu> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1995Apr13.191445.3771@mit.edu>, srobertson@mit.edu (Seo-yeon Robertson) 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. I tried this on my Sound Blaster 16 using a custom DSP resampler. The whispered syllables are 100% there. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Lars Brennan Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 28,800 bps "We don't sign stars. We build them."