Subject: Re: infamous 'SSS' experiment
From: David Mooney (moko@city-net.com)
Date: Thu Jan 11 2001 - 19:21:20 EST
KEVIN AUSTIN wrote:
> (Another assignment that was only given for a couple of years was to
> record a couple of words, make a loop and play them backwards. This was to
> be 'imitated' by the student, recorded and then played backwards to find
> out how close they were. In one class, a brazen young [female] student
> used a rather ... er un-PC word as her choice, and as the guys slowly
> understood what she was saying, a surprising (blushed) silence fell over
> the room. The young lady has since gone on to a fine career in ea and
> cabaret on the US west coast. -- Check out "Whipping the Boys" on PRESENCE
> II for further developments. There may be more (and more!?) soon to come
> on the forthcoming PRESENCE III.)
My brother and I used to do this when we were kids on our dinky little mono 3
inch reel to reel--Dare I say how many decades ago? Needless to say we got as
much backwards laughing as anything else. It was even more hilarious when we
combined it with chipmonk experiments. I read somewhere--I think on another
list--that this technique was used on a couple of rock songs in the 60s.
-- David Mooney dmooney@city-net.com http://www.city-net.com/~moko/"Opaque melodies that would bug most people" (Don "Captain Beefheart" Van Vliet)
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