Re: a Dreaming Plug discovery?

[Steve ZPJ <zpj@huskbeat.demon.co.uk>]

On Sat, 20 Apr 1996 02:47:25 -0700 (PDT), IEDSRI@aol.com wrote:
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>
>At 3:37 of "Jig of Life", simultaneous with John Carder
>Bush's words "curl of the wave", several male voices 
>can be heard saying "Get out of the waves!" in unison.
>This incidence of the phrase has not been logged before,
>as far as IED is aware.

I could here this quite clearly. They say it again a second time but
much less distinct than the first one. After that they seem to chant
"Get out of the water" a couple of times, but I could be imagining
this as there is a lot of background music by this time.

>
>At 0:12 of "The Big Sky", IED wants to ask again if 
>anyone can tell what Kate is singing in the background.
>With the Dreaming Plug on it sounds something like 
>"You should never be a- (unintelligible)".  This has always
>been a problem line, clearly a full sentence but frustratingly
>(and all too typically) omitted from the "official" lyric sheet.
>
I always thought that she was saying "You should never go in there!"
but this doesn't relate to the rest of the song (but then again,
that's Kate for you, it may mean something to her!).

>Another question: Since we can more or less isolate parts of 
>Kate's music that exist only on left or right channels, is it not 
>now also possible for someone to write a program that 
>would record the Dreaming-Plug signal, then search for 
>itself within the recording as a whole and cancel itself out?  
>This would be every bit as revealing of the inner workings 
>of the music, since it would leave us with ONLY those parts 
>of the recording which are perfectly centered between
>left and right channels.  Does anyone know whether this 
>is feasible?  If so, would someone please do it? 
>
This isn't actually too difficult. With a little knowledge of sound
processing and either a good sound editor or reasonable programming
skills it is perfectly possible. I used the sound editor method of
listening to the songs instead of ever making a Dreaming Plug and I
may get round to writing the program if I ever finish Uni and get rid
of all these damn assignments.

>Thanks.
>
>- -- Andrew Marvick (IED)
>    S               R             I

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Steve ZPJ
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