I didn't find it creepy at all. What were they expecting to find when they slowed it down?
Dial-up modem sound slowed 700% is 100% creepy
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Re: Dial-up modem sound slowed 700% is 100% creepy
#12Even more amazing is Paul's Extreme Sound Stretch software that did the job! http://hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch/
Re: Dial-up modem sound slowed 700% is 100% creepy
#13Even more amazing is Paul's Extreme Sound Stretch software that did the job! http://hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch/
Indeed that is a particularly nice sounding time stretch algorithm.
It sounds like a crystal forest on saturn.
Re: Dial-up modem sound slowed 700% is 100% creepy
#14I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure the picture on that blog was derived from a Shepard Fairey poster, which was derived from a Josef Müller-Brockmann poster about noise titled 'Noise Control' in 1960: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kzaoY-eKntI/S-2gf01XkPI/AAAAAAAAAD...
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Re: Dial-up modem sound slowed 700% is 100% creepy
#15As one who ran a BBS and was constantly listening to these connections, I was expecting(hoping) to hear something I could understand.
At 2x speed up I think I recognize this as a 56k negotiation. I started using cable around that time so I can't tell the difference between x2 and K56.
Re: Dial-up modem sound slowed 700% is 100% creepy
#16Reminds me of FUture Sound of London - Dead Cities
Re: Dial-up modem sound slowed 700% is 100% creepy
#17So this is what those 700%-faster-clocked-brain extraterrestrials get when they are tuning in on earth.
Re: Dial-up modem sound slowed 700% is 100% creepy
#18Any sound slowed 700% is creepy. It's just the human brain associating high-pitch sounds with fun, children speaking,, bell ringing and other "nice" sounds, while low-pitch is of thunder, big animals (predators) roaring, otherwise associated with danger.
Re: Dial-up modem sound slowed 700% is 100% creepy
#19Any sound slowed 700% is creepy. It's just the human brain associating high-pitch sounds with fun, children speaking,, bell ringing and other "nice" sounds, while low-pitch is of thunder, big animals (predators) roaring, otherwise associated with danger.
No, this is stretched 700% without affecting the pitch: http://hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch/
Re: Dial-up modem sound slowed 700% is 100% creepy
#20Any sound slowed 700% is creepy. It's just the human brain associating high-pitch sounds with fun, children speaking,, bell ringing and other "nice" sounds, while low-pitch is of thunder, big animals (predators) roaring, otherwise associated with danger.
The article claims the pitch is unaltered (ie. they slowed down the sound and pitch corrected the result).