Post by fixingahole on Dec 31, 2003 7:27:28 GMT
I found a page with some backwards vocals in it that will make a good test for this question:
Usually people are listening for words, rather than just listening to the sounds and deciding what (if anything) they hear. If you say to someone, "listen, he's saying 'miss him miss him'," and then you play it for them, they will probably hear it. They are listening for the words. But how many people would hear the same words if they didn't know what they were listening for?
Suggestive listening is different than just listening. Were all those backwards phrases put there on purpose (and do they really say what people think they say) or are they accepted today because of suggestive listening? Would people hear the words or just gibberish if they didn't know what to listen for?
Here's a section of In The World Tonight forward and backward.
forward: www.beatlesagain.com/bvoices/twt.ram
backward: www.beatlesagain.com/bvoices/twtb.ram
You don't know what you're listening for in the backward segment. Do you hear anything?
Here's the link to the page (bottom) if you want to see what the author hears. www.beatlesagain.com/bpidnew.html
I don't know how we tally results since we can't post what we hear or it will ruin the test. Again, don't post what you hear.
And maybe more important, if you decide what you hear backwards was put there intentionally, you'll know if it's possible to record a phrase that sounds like a different phrase backwards — on purpose.
Usually people are listening for words, rather than just listening to the sounds and deciding what (if anything) they hear. If you say to someone, "listen, he's saying 'miss him miss him'," and then you play it for them, they will probably hear it. They are listening for the words. But how many people would hear the same words if they didn't know what they were listening for?
Suggestive listening is different than just listening. Were all those backwards phrases put there on purpose (and do they really say what people think they say) or are they accepted today because of suggestive listening? Would people hear the words or just gibberish if they didn't know what to listen for?
Here's a section of In The World Tonight forward and backward.
forward: www.beatlesagain.com/bvoices/twt.ram
backward: www.beatlesagain.com/bvoices/twtb.ram
You don't know what you're listening for in the backward segment. Do you hear anything?
Here's the link to the page (bottom) if you want to see what the author hears. www.beatlesagain.com/bpidnew.html
I don't know how we tally results since we can't post what we hear or it will ruin the test. Again, don't post what you hear.
And maybe more important, if you decide what you hear backwards was put there intentionally, you'll know if it's possible to record a phrase that sounds like a different phrase backwards — on purpose.