As a thank you to all of you who have contributed to making this the best gaming experience I’ve had in such a variety of ways, I made this...
https://soundcloud.com/kypshard/unknown-tinfoil-heroes
or you can go here - http://canonn.science/2016/03/30/i-made-a-thing/
The Unknown Artefact mystery has had me by the Chicken Tikka Baltis since I first saw youtube footage of one, gently spinning and singing its strange melody. We’ve found morse code in the sound and deciphered it, tracked changes in the information it broadcasts. We’ve analysed the purrs that it makes, looking for a cypher which so far eludes us. We’ve thrown UA into black holes, tried every commodity and material known to man in their presence. Pretty much everything that is possible for us to try, we’ve tried. Still, they are a mystery.
But that strange song they sing - we’ve never found what that is communicating, if anything. And yet it’s the loudest sound, the biggest “Hey, over here!”.
I started to jam along with it on my guitar, first working out the notes it played, then figuring out the right chords to compliment them and their strange out-of-tuneless (I checked out my chords to make sure using the sonic visualisation tools that have been used to ‘see’ the morse in the signal - I could see the frequencies and therefore the notes and was pleased to see that my chords checked out). I followed the structure of the UA’s cycle - first short melody, morse, purrs, second short melody, morse, purrs, repeat. In the spaces between the melodies I replied on my guitar with a melody of my own built from the chords the UA sings, which set the stage for using the Lydian mode - the most mysterious of all the modes
As i did this, a sense of epicness grew in my inner ear - the epicness of hundreds of CMDRs sharing the effort and the results, co-operating and communicating with a group purpose. Heroes emerged on the Threadnauts. First finders, professional convoy heisters back in the day before UA’s were found free-floating, uber tinfoilers and researchers, cryptologists, data analysts and so on. And a player group emerged - The Canonn - and more epic heroism as people gave their cash and their free time to build infrastructure for us to communicate better, to foster a community. Epic stuff indeed, and so inspiring. I wanted to capture something of that heroic epicness and generosity of spirit. So that little Close Encounters style guitar jam became the seed of this, my tribute to the heroes of the UA mystery.
The track is free to download as a high quality wav
o7
https://soundcloud.com/kypshard/unknown-tinfoil-heroes
or you can go here - http://canonn.science/2016/03/30/i-made-a-thing/
The Unknown Artefact mystery has had me by the Chicken Tikka Baltis since I first saw youtube footage of one, gently spinning and singing its strange melody. We’ve found morse code in the sound and deciphered it, tracked changes in the information it broadcasts. We’ve analysed the purrs that it makes, looking for a cypher which so far eludes us. We’ve thrown UA into black holes, tried every commodity and material known to man in their presence. Pretty much everything that is possible for us to try, we’ve tried. Still, they are a mystery.
But that strange song they sing - we’ve never found what that is communicating, if anything. And yet it’s the loudest sound, the biggest “Hey, over here!”.
I started to jam along with it on my guitar, first working out the notes it played, then figuring out the right chords to compliment them and their strange out-of-tuneless (I checked out my chords to make sure using the sonic visualisation tools that have been used to ‘see’ the morse in the signal - I could see the frequencies and therefore the notes and was pleased to see that my chords checked out). I followed the structure of the UA’s cycle - first short melody, morse, purrs, second short melody, morse, purrs, repeat. In the spaces between the melodies I replied on my guitar with a melody of my own built from the chords the UA sings, which set the stage for using the Lydian mode - the most mysterious of all the modes
As i did this, a sense of epicness grew in my inner ear - the epicness of hundreds of CMDRs sharing the effort and the results, co-operating and communicating with a group purpose. Heroes emerged on the Threadnauts. First finders, professional convoy heisters back in the day before UA’s were found free-floating, uber tinfoilers and researchers, cryptologists, data analysts and so on. And a player group emerged - The Canonn - and more epic heroism as people gave their cash and their free time to build infrastructure for us to communicate better, to foster a community. Epic stuff indeed, and so inspiring. I wanted to capture something of that heroic epicness and generosity of spirit. So that little Close Encounters style guitar jam became the seed of this, my tribute to the heroes of the UA mystery.
The track is free to download as a high quality wav
o7
