Watching Kimmy Schmidt S4 …
We are looking for an Al Gore rythm…
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Yes. It’s pretty standard for a stereo file. If the left and right ears didn’t get slightly different signals, you wouldn’t hear any stereo separation.
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Went to get ye olde metronome from the closet, and of course it’s out of battery. Oh well, time to put that training to use, I guess. And some online helpers, though these are notoriously unprecise.
I’ll be working exclusively with the 52 seconds long fibonacci sound, if that comes up with anything I might try some others. But my time is a bit limited, unfortunately.
There is definitely a time to the whole thing, and my first guess would be to assume that the whole “piece” starts on the beat when it starts. Going through it from there at 71 bpm, all booms align with the time in a rythmical way, though surprisingly most are on the off-beat.
I’ll try to see if I can get a repeating metric out of the thing next.
Going on 71 bpm, the whole thing is 58 beats long. That doesn’t align with the ubiquitous 4/4, but I already knew that. Trouble is, it doesn’t align with anything. But noone said it had to finish on a full measure, so let’s look what we have nearby.
56 would be an obvious candidate, aligning with 4. 54 would align with 6. 55 with 5. Let’s listen to it and see how those feel. I already know that 4 doesn’t feel very logical.
Yup, 6 feels pretty good. Kind of groovy actually with all the off-beats. So I’ll write down the rythm in 6/4 next. Juuust… how should I do that? Maybe I’ll find some tool to write notes on the quick, but then who’d be able to read them? I could just do it tabulature style, but the trouble is I’ll need 1/16th resolution, so that’ll be tough to read too…
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Ok have listened to the sample/edit files. Could be a drum sample loop there is rythm
I went and listened to a few of the sound files .
My initial thought is there is a vocal/voice with heavy reverb creating the booms. Layered with a more constant interference track similar to the background noise on WT site or one of the ARG sites .
Going to listen to LCD tonight song to see if i can hear any connection. Am thinking is there a point where the vocalist is speaking or singing without much music playing and especially the words Emily posted on reddit
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Has someone put all 27 files together into a single audio file?
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Link is in the top post now
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I’m pretty sure we will get a new audio file at 16:16 EST today.
Here is the full audio of all the videos in order stitched together.
It starts with ‘no-signal’ then followed by the alternating almost identical pairs of ‘booms’ (2111 vs 1312131), to end with the Fibonacci sequence (112358).
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This track is wonderful @DevilinPixy !! Listening to it in one go really puts you in a … “special” mood 
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Yeah, after several days I know the feeling … like a headache that doesn’t want to go away 
It just keeps pounding away … boom … boooommm … boom booomm …
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From the Game Detectives Discord, setup by MuskelDorff
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12t2tBvymbiisJBohrEjvoq-DUTBwvyduaPI9Q4G9MvE/edit?usp=sharing
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Ok, here comes the “fibonacci rythm”. Don’t say I didn’t warn you!
How to read:
O denotes an accent - i.e. a boom. It replaces whatever symbol would be in its place
- denotes a full beat (i.e. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
. denotes a half-beat ( 8th, i.e. 1-and, 2-and, 3-and, 4-and, 5-and, 6-and)
, denotes a quarter beat (ie 16th, o-ga-ne-te, two-ga-ne-te etc. Darn, how does rythm speak even work in english? In any case, I’m afraid I can’t deliver a whole rythmics course with this, even if that has been my job once upon a time…)
|| denotes the beginning of a measure
I’ve left the sixteenths out of most of it, except the measures where they are needed. So, without further ado, and doubtlessly to everyones confusion, I give you the fibonacci rythm in six quarters (at 71 bpm):
||O.-.-.-.-.-. ||O.-.-.-.-.-. ||O.-.O.-.-.-. ||-.-.O.-.O.-.
here come the sixteenths. THat syncopation is actually pretty groovy
||O,.,-,.,-,.,-,.,-,.,-,.O ||-,.,-,.O-,.,-,.O-,.,-,.O ||-,.,-,.O-,.,-,.,-,.,-,.,
toning down to 8ths in off-beat again:
||-.-O-.-O-.-O ||-.-O-.-O-.-O ||-.-O-.-O-.-.
Interesting notes:
The piece technically divides itself up into 3 parts at three measures with their own thematic.
The first three measures accentuate the beginning by booming over the first beat of the first two measures, then intensify in the third by doubling down.
The middle three measures are the wildest, going into full syncopation. However, this division, while good on paper (and good for structuring the piece for easier reading) is not fealt. What you feel is that the start is stealing a full measure from the syncopation, since it accentuates the first beat of the fourth measure, claiming it as its own, while the first syncope shortly before the end of the measure is felt as a rushed beginning of the fifth measure (which is of course what syncopes do. That’s their entire thing.).
So a more sensible division of the piece would be 4 measures/ two measures / three measures.
The last three measures, meanwhile, dispense with the wild syncopation to go into an agressive off-beat groove, that you can’t help but feel should be the main support for the song propper to come, if there was one to come.
In any case, I seriously doubt any of this will be helpful 
I’ll have a listen at tonite now and see if I can make out any similar patterns, but after that I’ll be out of time, unfortunately.
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Wow this post is absolutely awesome! Thanks for putting all of that together @jedidia!
Would there be any chance you could record this beat somehow, and upload it on clypit or somewhere else?
My other question is: would these patterns be similar to anything you’ve done before? I’m trying to see whether any special rhythm or beat has a certain name or fame to it, that could help us with either decyphering stuff or help us find the passcode (it could also be the actual passcode ofcourse…)
Thanks again!
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Not only a rythm but it gives an idea about fibonaci in music.
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Satellite passing directly over Sligo, Athlone, Kilkenny and Waterford in about 10 minutes. Approx 200 miles from me - I’ll catch it.
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Unfortunately I have exactly zero audio processing software on my computer since the time I don’t work in the biz anymore, but it would also be a bit pointless. I mean, you have the rythm. The only tools I was working with was the 52 second soundclip you posted, and this here online metronome (well, ok, and notepad. My 6-year old keeps stealing allmy pens!):
Set it to 71 bpm, and the time to 6, let it run and start the video on the beat. Voila, rythm. Though you might give it a few tries to hit it nicely. MP4s can at times have a bit of a start delay when you kick them off.
Sure, it’s rythm. I played lots of rythm…
No, honestly, I understand what you are asking. My pupils were always pestering me about “what is that rythm called?” and my answer usually was “bum-tshak-bum-bum-tshak” or something. There’s very few rythms with actual names, and they’re more like gross patterns. And no, that sequence fits none of them closely enough so I could tell you “it sounds like a Bossa Nova” or somethin’ like that (funny thing… latin grooves are among the only ones with clearly discernible names…)
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Reminds me of 2 things:
- It sounds like something being played backwards.
- It sounds like pulse driving in NMS and then taking damage from asteroids.
I haven’t been involved much lately so I figured it was time I suggested something…
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I was compiling a little list of brainstorming thoughts on the sounds also. 
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I am predicting we will be getting a canon in an audio file soon, like Pachelbel’s Canon in D which is also based on mathmatics.
Thinking about the Fibonacci number pattern 1-1-2-3-5-8 of beats in the last audio file.
From the site:
This throws up some interesting thoughts. I liked the prime number 147441 which loosely reminded me of some of the beat patterns we have had looking at the waveforms in Audacity. The number conversions are helpful too assuming they are correct.
I think though that last audio file points to something in the other files but how and what?