Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite

The Ingredients

Audio: Track Six - "Echoes" from the album Meddle by Pink Floyd 1971, Capital Records

Video: "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite" from the film 2001 directed by Stanley Kubrick 1969, MGM

The Setup
The video clip for this synchronicity is the end segment of 2001, subtitled "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite." This segment is the last approx. 23 minutes of the film. The audio for this synchronicity is provided by Pink Floyd's Meddle album, the last track titled "Echoes." "Echoes" is also approx. 23 minutes long.

The "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite" title screen

To start the synchronicity, first pause2001at the beginning of "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite"; the screen should be black just before the title"Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite" phases in. Pause"Echoes"(this is easiest with a cd but if you are using a tape player just get it as close as you can). Unpause both at the same time and enjoy. It's simple, easy, and it's a definite match!!


According to some experimenters out on the net, who used the laser disc of 2001, the very
best match up is achieved if the scene (ie. right after the title screen, "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite"), comes up just as the third ping (three, it's the magic number!!) in "Echoes", is heard.

Source
Now you're probably asking, "Where on EARTH did you ever hear about something like this?"  Luke DeWitt, one of my fraternity brothers, showed me this synchronicity in college; he found out about it through another brother of ours, Steve Bai.

This synch got me hooked on both 2001 and Pink Floyd.  I wrote a paper on the symbolism in the segment, which was available on this site. It's been the driving force for me to put up this site, as well as my interest in a lot of other bizarreness and weirdness.


Evidence
Having since read some biographies on Pink Floyd, I think there is STRONG evidence that this synchronicity is intentional. According to Saucerful of Secrets:  The Pink Floyd Odyssey(arguably the best biography of the Pink Floyd story, and certainly my favorite):

"Roger Waters, yet to balk at the sci-fi association, went so far as to say his 'greatest regret' was that they didn't do the score for 2001: A Space Odyssey -- parts of which, particularly in the long, mind-blowing hallucinatory sequence near the end, nonetheless sound remarkably Floydian..." 


-- (Saucerful of Secrets, by Nicholas Schaffner, pg. 142)

The original lyrics to Floyd's "Echoes" had an outer space theme to them, as opposed to the more well-known nautical imagery in the album version.  The original opening line was "Planets meeting face to face" which seems more than coincidental in view of the imagery in the opening of "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite."

But probably the biggest evidence in favor of this synch, is its sheer simplicity. Twenty-three minutes of audio, twenty-three minutes of video.  The changes are in the right places, and thematically the music fits the visuals quite well.  I don't know of any other synch that really comes close.