Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (03/20/87)
Really-From: drukman%UMASS.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu
(Jonathan S. Drukman)
To Andrew Marvick:
After an hour of messing around with cassette snippets of the
"secret" message in Experiment IV, from both the 7" and 12"
versions, I have not only thoroughly messed up my mind, but
reached some conclusions. It _sounds_ as if someone (or
some electronic device) is twiddling the signal between left and
right channels. I'm not quite sure what you mean by the "sss"
sounds, unless you are referring to the background noises, which
I was not concentrating on. The message could very well be "I bet
my mum's gonna give me a little toy" - what I mean by that is,
it may or may not be, but I have no better ideas, and since I have
your interpretation in mind, it colors my judgement when I listen
to the track. You're probably right, although I noticed on the
12" version, the word "toy" sounds more like "tie" and tends to
speed up and vanish into the mix a lot faster than it does on the
7" version.
Now, does anybody have any ideas as to what all the vocal samples
in the background of "Suspended In Gaffa" are saying? The only one
that's really obvious to me is "I'm scared of the changes" which fits
in with my previously posted interpretation of the song. So, maybe
you lucky Dreaming CD owners can decipher the stuff in the background
that poor little analog me is at a loss to.
--Jon Drukman
"Don't drop acid, take it pass/fail!"Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (04/01/87)
Really-From: prs@oliven.ATC.OLIVETTI.COM (Philip Stephens)
In article <870320102250.0000113D.AARQ.MA@UMass> (UMass-Mailer 4.03) Love-Hounds writes:
-> The message could very well be "I bet
->my mum's gonna give me a little toy" - what I mean by that is,
->it may or may not be, but I have no better ideas, and since I have
->your interpretation in mind, it colors my judgement when I listen
->to the track. You're probably right, although I noticed on the
->12" version, the word "toy" sounds more like "tie" and tends to
->speed up and vanish into the mix a lot faster than it does on the
->7" version.
Darned if I know what you guys' goin on about. The cassette I bought
in England seems **to me** to simply have a chopped-up snip of some
background conversation, as if from an interview or accidentally
recorded between sessions, "I don't like much when they give me an
infinity of instruments"... or something very like that. Forward, and
interrupted more than once per second. I haven't listened to it
backward. I tried to hear that phrase you quote, but no way, not on
my copy.
(For reference, I mean in between "It could sing you to sleep" and
"But that dream..."; the sheet music I peeked at but didn't buy just
says "(improvisation)". )
Whatever. I enjoy these mysteries, too.
[Hope I can get the poster daemon to do obeisiance this time....]
- Phil prs@oliveb.UUCP (Phil Stephens) {really oliven}
or, if that fails: {get to 'ames' somehow, then}!oliveb!prs
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