Jupiter And Beyond The Infinite

Today, I bought both the albums Wish You Were Here and Meddle. The reason I bought those records is because I own the movies Blade Runner and 2001: A Space Odyssey. Earlier today, I was doing this very famous sync and I thought it was just 100% brilliant. I thought the mood of the music matched insanely well with the atmosphere of space and travel. I also showed it to my family, until my father ruined it by touching the top of the CD player, which made the song "Echoes" stop playing. To be honest with you, I've never seen 2001: A Space Odyssey in it's entirety (I have seen bits of it before when I was at high school), but my mum said I should because the film does happen to be an insane masterpiece, something I always admit. I will try out the Wish You Were Here/Blade Runner sync as well and the version of Blade Runner I own happens to be Director's Cut (which happens to be the only version available mostly on DVD, until Final Cut came out on Blu-Ray, but I'm recently watching a month of superhero movies (I'm a fan of comic books and superheroes), so I'll do it sometime before the end of the month. My father also showed me how I could record a video played simultaneously while playing music from a CD. I would like to also do this with Wizard of Oz/Dark Side of the Moon and Alice in Wonderland/The Wall, but I can't from where I come from, because The Wizard of Oz goes for 97 minutes (USA 101 minutes) and Alice in Wonderland goes for 72 minutes (USA 75 minutes). That's all for now.

I found this site while searching for information on the Dark Side of Oz synchronicity. I've been playing that for friends of mine for years now, and it never fails to get a good reaction. So I was reading the home page and decided to try this synchronicity since Floyd and Kubrick are a couple of my all-time favorites in their respective industries.

My setup
Video source
HD DVD - If you've not seen the hi-def remaster, you are missing out.
Audio source
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (MSFL) UltraDisc II CD - The same thing can be said of the audio quality of this release, though I wish I had the LP.
Timing
The Start time on my HD DVD was 1:56:59, the frame just before the scene title appears. The start time of Echoes was, of course, the very beginning of the track. The third ping was not exactly synchronized as noted by expirementers, but I let it play out anyway.

The synchronicities during the first 10 minutes were very impressive, but I was totally blown away by what I experienced during the age progression sequence. Synchronicities between the music and camera cuts, the look over the shoulder (both), getting up from the chair, footsteps, et cetera all appear virtually tailor made. Along with arkiver, I am of the opinion that this synchronicity was intentional, and it is a must see for all!

BTW - arkiver, I see you're using Drupal, kudos! Too bad about all the spambots on here though

have you checked out "dark side of oz" its the dark side of the moon disc set to the wizard of oz starting on the mgm lion's third growl. it's pretty cool.

This is probably intentional, and don't get me wrong I'm probably the last person or earth to believe in such conspirics (spl?).

Roger Water's song "Perfect Sense Pt 1" describes a monkey which holds a broken bone in his hand, staring at it, JUST LIKE ON 2001.

No one flies around the sun;

Can someone please post a video of synchronization?

The sounds at the end of Echoes (sort of a howling sound) are quite similar to the sounds on the actual 2001 soundtrack. There is indeed a lot of evidence towards this one being deliberate. Also, Roger Waters wanted to use some sound clips from 2001 on his album Amused To Death, but Stanley Kubrick declined (the song describes a 'monkey on a pile of stone', like in the beginning scene of 2001, there is a backward message at that part of the song instead of the sound clips, which mentions Stanley Kubrick, and the sound clips of 2001 were eventually added to Roger Waters' live album In The Flesh). And the 'Monolith' is certainly a sort of Albatross...

If you haven't already tried this one, it's definitely worth checking out. Having done a comparison of the original soundtrack and Echoes, the music changes all seem to be in the same places, and the moods they evoke are startlingly similar.

Plus, this is just a great sequence of film... abstract, yes, but great nonetheless.

peace,
--mj
arkiver

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