Re: THE ONE TRUE AND ONLY SUBJEKT

[prs@oliven.atc.olivetti.com (Philip Stephens)]

Private to IED/am, but may get sent to moderator (I'm not sure how well
our rn is set up).  If this slips into distribution, my apologies for 
wasting bauds.

In article <8704072328.AA03635@EDDIE.MIT.EDU> you write:
>
>About the backwards track, which Mark K. mentions, Phil's
>elaborately detailed transcription of it is still being
>examined and compared against the original by IED. So far,
>as far as IED can make out, it does seem to be
>correct. That is, the "choppy", or "scatter-voice" sections
>of "Watching You Without Me" seem to say something like
>what Phil wrote down when played BACKWARDS. How Kate did

	(thanks)

>this IED has no idea, but it is AMAZING. Unfortunately,
>this gets us no closer towards a conclusion re the official
>mystery section of the track.
>
>IED's Missouri friend argues that whatever the solution to
>the mystery track, its solution almost certainly does not require
>expensive or hard-to-obtain equipment. The last mystery
>track was ridiculously simple, in the end.
>
>After further consideration and discussion, IED has to
>reject Phil's (?) theory that there is something deliberately

	(? I forget, maybe someone else.  My backward cassette has
	The Dreaming too, so I'll give it a listen "soon".)

>being said in the "Leave It Open" mystery track when played backwards.
>It just isn't so. The sounds are a lot like:
>"Nthey send they wuht vewy heee-uhw.." but they are not precise
>English words. All you have to do is imitate the phonetics yourself,
>record your voice, and play it backwards, and you'll hear
>"We let the weirdness in." That's all it is. The new mystery track,
>however, is definitely something much cleverer.
>
>About the tape circulation, why not if IED makes a 90-minute tape
>with about ten minutes of stuff recorded on it (the remainder left
>blank) -- stuff that he's relatively sure nobody else has heard before --
>and send it off to, say, Mark Kat(e)souros? Mark can then add ten minutes
>of his recommended stuff, and forward the tape to Sue or somebody.
>And so on. The only restriction would be that no-one take up more
>than say ten to twelve minutes of the tape.
>All those in favour say "aye".
>
	Aye me hearty, 'twud do me a good turn ya wud by that.


>-- Andrew


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