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

Comments

• 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. Upton Sinclair also conducted telepathy experiments in the 30's.

• The audio distortions on the vocals of this track may have been modeled after the reported auditory distortions present in Microwave auditory effect , 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."

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."

Trivia

• The preparation for a dive is always a tense time.
• In one sequence, the number six is repeated in the background, the result sounding more like "666".
  • Six directions: north, east, south, west, up, down.
  • Invocation
  • Chemical Brothers's Lost in the K Hole has similar pitch and tone of counting in AB::BC. http://youtube.com/watch?v=wgDEhW688m4 (00:27)
    • "Yeah for me it would be the track "Gyroscope". I dreamed the sound of it, and although I've recreated dreamt songs before, I managed to do that one so quickly that the end result was 99% like my dream. It spooks me to listen to it now."
• Autechre: "They generally insist on playing in near complete darkness, again to minimize unwanted visual associations and focus concentration entirely on the quicksilver motions of the music burrowing deep inside your head. Autechre have even talked about achieving telepathic communion with audiences."
• Telephasic Workshop: The chopped-up voices during the song may be saying "now this is very irresponsible".
• Splendid Isolation: On being 'telepathic': Mike: 'We're pretty much both on the same wavelength al the time. We usually don't even have to use complete sentences to convey ideas to each other. We have a kind of shorthand musical language that would sound like total gobbledygook to anyone else.'
• Matmos: "For the past four years, Matmos has been conducting parapsychological experiments based off the classic ganzfeld experiments, which use sensory deprivation and telepathic messaging to search for evidence of extrasensory perception, or ESP."
• Bibio: Album: Mind Bokeh (2011).
• The Colour & The Fire: "Mike: I don't know if we hear it quite the way the listener does. For us the whole point of writing music is to get something infectious into the back of the listener's mind, something that feels so personal to you that you couldn't even possibly convey it in words to a close friend. I find personally that I only really enjoy music if it has that effect on me, so it's a challenge for me to write tunes that do that for other people. If you listen to a tune by some musician and it really gets to you emotionally, it's as though for a few minutes you've tuned into the feelings that were in the musician's head. There's a sort of knowing connection there between the listener and the musician that ordinary language would never be able to achieve. In a way it's like the closest you'll ever get to being psychic."
• Many tracks on TCH to do with dreams, clairvoyance, or the third eye.
• Hexagon Sun: There are 10 billiards in a pool triangle.

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