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== Comments ==
 
== 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. <ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telepathy</ref>
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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. <ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telepathy</ref> Upton Sinclair also conducted telepathy experiments in the 30's.<ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=ZQEmLUlDXz0C</ref>
* [http://thequietus.com/users/10546 Joe Clay]: "A garbled, time-stretched vocal that sounds a bit like Vincent Price on 'Thriller' counts up to ten over warm drones. He's saying something that sounds a bit like, "This is quite pleasant", and other stuff that is hard to decipher." <ref>http://thequietus.com/articles/12364-boards-of-canada-tomorrows-harvest-review</ref>
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*Is the telepath instructing us to modify the release's track sequence? Does "up & down" refer to the passage of time? (e.g., This track's book-end, [[Sundown]].)
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* The audio distortions on the vocals of this track may have been modeled after the reported auditory distortions present in Microwave auditory effect <ref>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_auditory_effect</ref>, 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." <ref> D.R. Justesen. "Microwaves and Behavior", Am Psychologist, 392(Mar): 391–401, 1975.</ref>
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*When played backwards, the voice counting in the track can be heard to say "This is (is) the end of the Earth.. for now."
  
 
== Samples / Lyrics ==
 
== Samples / Lyrics ==
  
0:04 "Testing.  One,  two,  three,  four,  five,  six,  seven, eight,  nine, ten. Up and down, I think."  
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0:04 "Testing.  One,  two,  three,  four,  five,  six,  seven, eight,  nine, ten. (oops) Up and down, quite a thing [while I'm counting?]."  
 
(background)  six, six, nine.
 
(background)  six, six, nine.
  
0:20: (Second voice) "On repeat. Give me a count."
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0:20: (Second voice) "On repeat. Give me a count." (also sounds like "you can't")
  
0:23 "Going to start with it very low, the one on the right and then turn it up, while I'm counting. One... three, four, fi-ive, six, seven, eight, ni- (garbled)"
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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, through ni- (garbled)"
  
0:43: (Second voice) "It's too loud."
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0:43: (Second voice) "It's too loud."  (Pitched down) "Plaid."
  
0:45 "Well, this is quite close to me. Let's play it back and see what it sounds like."
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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."
 
(Second and third voice) "Could I get the one voice?", "Nervous!", "Don't be nervous."
  
"One, two, three, four, fi-ive, six, seven."
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"One, two, three, four, fi-ive, six, six, seven."
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* After the last number you can hear a quiet "listen" (same as in "Reach for the Dead").
  
 
== Trivia ==
 
== Trivia ==
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== Videos ==
 
== Videos ==
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== External links==
 
== External links==

Revision as of 09:03, 23 May 2017

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. [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]
  • When played backwards, the voice counting in the track can be heard to say "This is (is) the end of the Earth.. for now."

Samples / Lyrics

0:04 "Testing. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. (oops) Up and down, quite a thing [while I'm counting?]." (background) six, six, nine.

0:20: (Second voice) "On repeat. Give me a count." (also sounds like "you can't")

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, through 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 the last number you can hear a 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

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


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