Nicholas Drozdoff ndrozdoff@hotmail.com

The Mystery Tune!






Can You Name This Tune? Simply click on the link and listen to it with your RealPlayer!

Now that you've had a chance to listen to the mystery tune, can you guess what it is? Now no fair peeking! Do you think you really know? Do you give up? OK, then scroll down further to get the major subliminal clue!

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The Story Behind The Mystery Tune:

Bill Lamphier was a top flight professional bass player in Chicago. After moving to California to work with Madonna, he has moved on to different work, but still keeps his music alive for himself.

Now Bill has a "different" sense of humor. He called a recording session one day and put some of the stangest music in front of the musicians that they have ever seen. What really freaked them out was when Bill over dubbed the vocals! They thought he was either singing in some wierd dielect of Japanese and Portugese run together, or that he had flipped altogether! Only his roomate, the guitarist, knew what he was up to.

The musicians on the session are among the finest in Chicago. Ernie denoff played guitar. Steve Eisen played tenor sax. Jim Hines played drums. Bob Gustafson (now living in New York) played piano. Bill did the bass and vocals.

What Bill had done was to painstaikingly arrange the music to New York, New York backwards and then carefully instruct the mystefied musicians as to how to play the chart. He then carefully trained himself (by ear, I believe) to sing the words to the last chorus of New York, New York backwards, phomemes and all! What results is truly bizarre! When the tape is played backwards, all of the attack and decay characteristics of the instruments is reversed, but the tune is properly decoded! Bills' voice now reproduces the tune, but his reverse interpretation of the phonetics yeilds a strange quality when decoded!

Did you figure it out, or did you have to listen to the reveresed version?

I hope you enjoyed this little adventure into the physics of music.



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