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From:
Harvey Thornburg
To:
Chris.Hilker
Cc:
Date:
Thu, 1 Dec 1994 18:34:18 -0800 (PST)
Subject:
Re: GC and KC
Msg-Id:
<199412020234.SAA03045@osiris.ac.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To:
<199412020027.QAA26732@taz.hyperreal.com>
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Chris.Hilker wrote:
quoted 24 lines "8 07" by everyone's favorite Global Communicators. The repetitive synth> > >"8 07" by everyone's favorite Global Communicators. The repetitive synth > >part comes in, and the first thing in my head is the "Colors"-era King > >Crimson, a song either of _Discipline_ or _Three..._. > > Try "Love on a Real Train" by Tangerine Dream. > > >_76:14_ is nearly perfect, even if it clocks in three seconds > >longer than it should. > > Yeah, it's been pointed out again and again, and there was a very good > post on the ambient list about the unpredictablility of CD running > times. What nobody seems to have noticed is that the times listed for > the tracks on the cover add up to 76:12. Did Pritchard and Middleton > take players adding two seconds to the actual time into account, or do > the numbers 76 and 14 possibly have some significance beyond a running > time? (He said, thinking about posting the same question to > alt.magick...) > > C. > > -- > (Chris.Hilker) cspot@hyperreal.com >
I remember a similar argument about the Orb's Blue Room - it was supposed to be 40:00 but everybody's CD had 39:58. Possibly this is characteristic of all CD's, in the way the manufacturer measures time and the CD player does so? -|---------------------|---|----------------|---|--------------------------|- birthdeath experience --- harvey thornburg --- hthornbu@osiris.ac.hmc.edu -|---------------------|---|----------------|---|--------------------------|-