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shamantrixx
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Posted : May 24, 2007 17:52
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Not so long ago few members rejected some links I've posted under explanation that it's SciFi mumbo jumbo. Well while we ware arguing "they" have been busy 
Voice-to-skull technology of inducing sound into your head, directly in to your head, is old stuff. So far hearing voices in your head was considered to be a sign of schizophrenia, and yet here they are, a parallel technology, which can actually induce it and cause exactly the same effects. I wonder...
This article is from the Globe. I think it’s the Boston Globe, but anyway it says “by Jenn Abelson, Globe Staff, April 24, 2007”. It says:
“The marketers have your ear -
Beam of sound aims its messages”
By Jenn Abelson, Globe Staff, April 24, 2007
title: Advertisers have a new way to get into your head.
Marketers around the world are using innovative audio technology that sends sound in a narrow beam, just like light, making it possible to direct messages right into consumers' ears while they shop or sit in waiting rooms.
The audio spotlight device, created by Watertown firm Holosonic Research Labs Inc., has been used to hawk everything from cereals in supermarket aisles to glasses at doctor's offices. The messages are often quick and targeted -- and a little creepy to the uninitiated.
Court TV recently installed the audio spotlight in ceilings of bookstores to promote the network's new murder-mystery show. A voice, whispering, "Hey, you, can you hear me? Do you ever think about murder?" was beamed toward customers as they browsed the mystery section in several independent bookstores in New York.
For advertisers, the audio spotlight is a way of marketing to consumers, sending tailored messages without disturbing an entire store with loudspeaker announcements such as Kmart's iconic "Blue Light Special." The flat disk speakers with precision targeting have made sound possible in unlikely places -- from Boston's Museum of Fine Arts to the New York Public Library -- and are increasingly attractive to merchants trying to improve the shopping experience with a peaceful environment.
Major US companies, including Procter & Gamble Co. and Best Buy Co., are testing the device, but it is already being embraced abroad. Some marketers say it is only a matter of time before the technology takes off here.
"Advertisers look to capture people, especially when they are in the buying mood," said Tim Bilgor , chief executive of Innovative Media Solutions in London, which has installed the audio spotlight in Istanbul and Madrid airports, in shopping malls in China, and in the showrooms of Fiat car dealerships, where messages about product features are beamed to consumers as they approach the cars.
"There's so many vision technologies it can be overwhelming," Bilgor said. "The audio spotlight can captivate people in new ways."
Unlike traditional speakers, which broadcast sound in every direction, sound from an audio spotlight speaker can be focused directly at one spot, so no one else can hear it, or projected against a surface so that sound appears to come from the surface itself.
For example, a box of Fruity Pebbles can advertise its nutritional content, heard by shoppers only as they walk by boxes in the cereal aisle. The audio spotlight uses ultrasound to stimulate the air into making sound, which is emitted in focused, laser-like beams.
Joseph Pompei, the 33-year-old chief executive of Holosonics, began his career in acoustics while working as an engineer at Bose Corp. in Framingham. But as the audio industry became fixated on spreading sound everywhere, Pompei wanted to focus on finding ways to direct sound. He left Bose and developed a prototype of the audio spotlight and started the company in 2000 when he was a doctoral student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.”
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I was not sure about this being the best place for this topic but when I think again... we're gathered around psychedelic music. Music is sound and hearing voices in your head from thin air is as psychedelic as you can get
WAKE THE FUCK UP!!!
while you still have any chance to distinguish your own voice in the skull from "their" voice to your skull!
Now you can start mass discrediting me, blaming me for drug abuse, lack of, or false logic, spreading bad vibes, being negative, stupid, ignorant and making a fool of my self. I don't mind.... that's just your defense mechanism
I'll leave you with a quote:
Rome fell as they couldn't supply enough bread and circuses for the public and I see no reason why a carefully constructed scientific dictatorship could not last forever.
Aldous Huxley
I wish you happy voices in your head 
  "It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception"
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Colin OOOD
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Posted : May 24, 2007 18:07
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This technology is in work in some airports, in queues for the X-ray machines reminding you to take your laptop out of its case.
However it has nothing to do with music production. Perhaps this would have been better posted in the main Trance section, as that area is more 'off-topic friendly' than this one is intended to be. Then your paranoiac ramblings about " drug abuse, lack of, or false logic, spreading bad vibes, being negative, stupid, ignorant and making a fool of my self" wouldn't have been needed and once again you could have retained your dignity a little.
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shamantrixx
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Posted : May 24, 2007 18:21
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It's nice of you to worry about my dignity but there's no need for it. You see... it is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
Sine there is no "I" there can not be such thing as "my dignity". All things are impermanent, all thing are without self
"It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception"
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Freeflow
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Posted : May 24, 2007 19:06
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yo yo
yo
yo yo yo yo
yo yo
YO
this is a great beat, try putting a little accent on the last YO in the first sentence..
then build a bass around this, put a bass hit on the first YO in the first sentence and on the third YO in the third sentence, make sure you change tone of the bass hits..
Now add a pad, just to get the flow going..
now you are ready to import the rock kit(drums)
make a simple rock beat and put a hipass filter on it, then add some slight reverb, now automate a bitcrusher on ever second beat of the rock beat..
now you are ready to make the first lead, take a edgy resonant sound and make a cool pattern now automate the cutoff and smile
Good luck guys, i know you are both newbies and i really hope this little guide will help you on the road to success!
best of luck to both of you!!
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the daleks
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Posted : May 25, 2007 07:04
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Pavel
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Posted : May 25, 2007 15:11
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A voice inside my head tells me to lock this topic
Everyone in the world is doing something without me |
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Yellow Warrior
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Posted : May 25, 2007 15:11
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Calling Undertow, Calling Undertow.........
Rather than feeling that you're about to have the rug pulled from under you, let me teach you how to dance on a flying carpet |
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Seppa
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Posted : May 25, 2007 16:04
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Hey shamantrix,
You've been away for some time, I kind of missed your posts.
Been reflecting hey ?!
ok guys, you all take it easy now ! |
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UnderTow
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Posted : May 25, 2007 16:35
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On 2007-05-25 15:11, Yellow Warrior wrote:
Calling Undertow, Calling Undertow.........
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What what?
There is nothing wrong with this article (besides the usual objections of lack of info and details). This technology has been arround for a few years. From what I remember reading about it, it works by sending extremely high amplitude ultrasonic waves from two points focused on one point to create interference. One ultrasonic beam amplitude modulates the other ultrasonic beam to the point that the non-linearity of the air itself causes frequencies in the audible range. But this is all from memory so I probably have some of the details wrong.
My main comment would be that the topic subject is wrong as it isn't voice to skull but rather voice to air. Or voice to falt surface or whatever.
I do have some concerns about this technology. Ultrasonic waves can cause biological effects. I wonder how much testing has been done for any possible negative effects.
Oh and shamantrixx, the objections in previous threads were not about everything your wrote. They were about specific things and the conclusions your drew from those things.
UnderTow
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faxinadu
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Posted : May 25, 2007 16:54
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Posted : May 25, 2007 18:00
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I admit that i havnt read the whole first post but i know about the audio spotlight. I had an assignment where i wrote a rapport about audio spotlight last year. Very cool but the sounds still suck. Theres a documentary on audio spotlight somewhere on the net- maybe its on youtube now.
Actually Sennheizer makes a speaker based on this technology. |
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shamantrixx
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Posted : May 25, 2007 19:15
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On 2007-05-25 16:04, Seppa wrote:
Hey shamantrix,
You've been away for some time, I kind of missed your posts.
Been reflecting hey ?!
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Amazing I was on a short trip and quite frankly... I was reflecting intensively, but not in a way maybe think i should have.
Anyway this "voice to skull" has a really bad smell if you ask me. You can turn off TV or CD player but I don't see how we can turn off a beam of sound resonating on (in) our skull. Marketing and airport warnings are only the means to introduce the idea and create a positive feedback. Once the public gets used to it the "voice in our skull" will remind us to pay taxes, warning us that we drive too fast and work too slow... Boy I'm looking forward to it
"It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception"
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Freeflow
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Posted : May 25, 2007 19:23
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Thats why im working on a helmet that will protect us from this!
So no worry guys
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Seppa
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Posted : May 25, 2007 19:56
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| Anyway this "voice to skull" has a really bad smell if you ask me. You can turn off TV or CD player but I don't see how we can turn off a beam of sound resonating on (in) our skull. |
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oh boy ! I fear that too, it's not the technologies we should be afraid of, but the way we use them.
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UnderTow
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Posted : May 25, 2007 20:16
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On 2007-05-25 19:15, shamantrixx wrote:
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It does not resonate your skull. It is based on ultrasounds affected by the non-linearity of air (distortion) that cause audible sound.
What you actually hear is just regular old sound. Ear plugs will block it out.
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