Reversed Singing
December 28th, 2007 Posted in youtube
Can you work out which song this is?
You will at the halfway point, at which the video is reversed. This scallywag is singing the phonetic reversal of the song, so that when played backward it sounds normal again. Sort of.
Black Lodge, anyone?
It’s really hard to get re-reversed speech to sound good. We used to try doing it on the computer (record a sentence, memorize how it sounds, record your version of it, reverse that and play it) and just sticking together a reasonably long sentence is a tiresomely tricky process. I suspect it’s impossible for humans to vocalize the necessary noises accurately, which is why it always sounds somewhat off.
December 28th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
It sounds vaguely Welsh in reverse and then sort of Swedish when re-reversed. Wierd but an excellent way to spend three holiday minutes.
December 29th, 2007 at 11:06 am
neb boj ecin!