From egarcia@netcom.com Fri Sep 01 23:28:09 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!netcom!egarcia From: egarcia@netcom.com (Emi García) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Sep01.232809.5461@netcom.com> Date: Fri, 01 Sep 1995 23:28:09 GMT Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 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.' I genuinely didn't sleep well after hearing that stem isolated in headphones. -- Emi García *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Acorn RiscPC 600 - NetBSD 1.0 From stanaka@hanse.de Sat Sep 02 00:29:09 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!hanse!stanaka From: stanaka@hanse.de (Sven Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Sep02.002909.5070@hanse.de> Date: Sat, 02 Sep 1995 00:29:09 GMT References: <1995Sep01.232809.5461@netcom.com> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Sep01.232809.5461@netcom.com>, egarcia@netcom.com (Emi García) 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. -- === Sven Tanaka === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From teriksson@ox.ac.uk Sat Sep 02 06:02:09 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!ox!teriksson From: teriksson@ox.ac.uk (Takeshi Eriksson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Sep02.060209.3402@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 02 Sep 1995 06:02:09 GMT References: <1995Sep01.232809.5461@netcom.com> <1995Sep02.002909.5070@hanse.de> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Sep02.002909.5070@hanse.de>, stanaka@hanse.de (Sven Tanaka) writes: > The Anemoia Bible mentions the six Echoes that developed digital psychosis during performance simulations. Unit 6 was the last one before Nova. It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly. -- Takeshi Eriksson | teriksson@ox.ac.uk PGP Key fingerprint: A0DF ED80 09C6 A551 "Keep the channels open." From dkowalski@netcom.com Sat Sep 02 15:06:09 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!netcom!dkowalski From: dkowalski@netcom.com (Dmitri Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Sep02.150609.9117@netcom.com> Date: Sat, 02 Sep 1995 15:06:09 GMT References: <1995Sep01.232809.5461@netcom.com> <1995Sep02.002909.5070@hanse.de> <1995Sep02.060209.3402@ox.ac.uk> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Sep02.060209.3402@ox.ac.uk>, teriksson@ox.ac.uk (Takeshi Eriksson) writes: > It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly. Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes. -- Dmitri Kowalski "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." Atari TT030 / TOS 4.04 From slopez@mindspring.com Sun Sep 03 21:32:09 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!mindspring!slopez From: slopez@mindspring.com (Steve López) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Sep03.213209.6949@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 03 Sep 1995 21:32:09 GMT References: <1995Sep01.232809.5461@netcom.com> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Sep01.232809.5461@netcom.com>, egarcia@netcom.com (Emi García) 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. -- Steve López -- MindSpring Enterprises "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives."