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Telepath
Running time	1:32
Appears on	Tomorrow's Harvest

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Telepathy is the supposed communication of thoughts or ideas by means other than the known senses. It was a major field of research for scientists during the early 20th century and into the Cold War. ^[1] Upton Sinclair also conducted telepathy experiments in the 30's.^[2]

The audio distortions on the vocals of this track may have been modeled after the reported auditory distortions present in Microwave auditory effect ^[3], which was a facet of telepathy research during the Cold War. This auditory phenomenon was used to transmit sounds directly from a microwave emitter into the human brain. Researchers described that the auditory distortions inherent to this process caused "the sounds [to resemble] those emitted by persons with an artificial voice box." ^[4]

Samples / Lyrics

0:04 "Testing. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, (nine), ten. (oops) Up and down, quite a thing." (background) six, six, nine.

0:20: (Second voice) "On repeat. Give me a count."

0:23 "The stuff that they know, the one on the right and then turn it up, while I'm counting. One... three, four, fi-ive, six, seven, eight, ni- (garbled)"

0:43: (Second voice) "It's too loud." (Pitched down) "Plaid."

0:45 "Well, this is quite pleasant. Let's play it back and see what it sounds like."

(Second and third voice) "Could I get the one voice?", "Nervous!", "Don't be nervous."

"One, two, three, four, fi-ive, six, six, seven."

After last number you can also hear quiet "listen" (same, as in "Reach for the Dead").

Trivia

In one sequence, the number six is repeated in the background, the result sounding more like "666".

Videos

External links

References

↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telepathy
↑ http://books.google.com/books?id=ZQEmLUlDXz0C
↑ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_auditory_effect
↑ D.R. Justesen. "Microwaves and Behavior", Am Psychologist, 392(Mar): 391–401, 1975.

[1] ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telepathy

[2] ttp://books.google.com/books?id=ZQEmLUlDXz0C

[3] .wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_auditory_effect

[4] D.R. Justesen. "Microwaves and Behavior", Am Psychologist, 392(Mar): 391–401, 1975.

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 == Trivia ==
-*In one sequence, the number six is repeated in the background, the result sounding more like "666".
+In one sequence, the number six is repeated in the background, the result sounding more like "666".
-* Download the video "The Pharmacratic Inquisition - Full Length Lecture" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5zGRzz_5YA), open it in Quicktime Player and scrub to 03:05:21. Link: Telepath has a rhythm very similar to Trent Reznor's "Hand Covers Bruise" from The Social Network soundtrack (Bruise is 6-4-7/11-9-2 and Telepath is 5-1-11-6-(3)). Start Telepath at the same time they say "Bruise" at 03:05:31; concurrently, double tap CMD+right-right to pop the video to 4x speed (hint: loop Telepath and start two seconds until the end). You'll find the video during Telepath's fadeout has noise that sounds similar to the speaking voice from Telepath.
 == Videos ==