Re: Wav files and conlang and like pronunciation?

On Sat, 11 Dec 1999 12:52:33 -0800, Sally Caves <scaves@...>
wrote:

>I'm getting an error message for that site, too, which I had created a
>link
>for on one of my files.  Also, Hermann, in updating some of your
>excellent
>sound bytes, you've moved ahead of me, and I have to get a new
>RealPlayer
>to play them! :-(  Oh well, so what else is new?
3.0 should work just fine. You might just be getting RealPlayer's =
automatic
upgrade notification (you can turn this off from the Upgrade tab on the
Preferences dialog box).

Let me know which page was getting the error message and I'll fix the
links. I moved some files around June because I was paying too much for =
web
bandwidth, and some of the links apparently didn't get updated.

>ANOTHER piece--while I'm at it--that I just adore, and which might be
>more familiar to most of you, is the weird song in Jocelyn Pook's new
>album
>_Flood_.  It was originally entitled "Backwards Priests," and she
>included
>it in an arrangement for a ballet called "Deluge."  When Stanley Kubrick
>was walking through the set for _Eyes Wide Shut_ he heard one of his
>actors
>playing "Backwards Priests" on a CD, and he was so compelled by it that
>he
>coopted it for the famous scene.  That was the only part of the movie I
>really
>liked:  Tom Cruise enters as poseur into the private world of the
>masked,
>and that's the music that is being played.  It sounds like a Satanic
>Mass, and I only put my finger on what was so deliciously disturbing
>about
>the music when I got Pook's CD:  the lyrics are sung backwards.  I can't
>tell WHAT is being played backwards, probably Latin (since the rest of
I bought the CD specifically for this piece: I thought it sounded like a
recording played backwards when I heard it on the radio, so I was =
curious.
I sampled it and played it back in reverse, but I didn't recognize the
language. It sounds vaguely Slavic, I think.

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