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[mit900@cscgpo.anu.edu.au (Mark I Turner)]

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I assumed Kate had recorded herself singing 'We let
the weirdness in' backwards (i.e. 'ni senndriew eht tel ew'!),
presumably after practicing by listening to a backwards tape of
the lyric sung normally.  Reversing a tape of herself singing
backwards makes the lyrics forwards again,
except that they sound, ahem, weird. They have the aural 
characteristics of speech played backwards, but with (just) 
understandable meaning.

I've actually done the above (idiot, eh!),
and with a bit of practice you can actually say
things backwards yourself that are quite clear when
recorded and the tape is reversed.  Usually you have
to listen to a reversed tape of yourself saying the words 
normally - just saying the words backwards as they appear on
paper ('ni senndriew eht tel ew') doesn't work to well!

 
I have a digitiser that can record short segments of a CD
and play them back in perfect reverse time.  I'll see if
I can pick up anything when the end of Leave it Open is
played backwards, and post the results.

Anyway, however it was done, it sure is effective!

Mark  

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