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Music Decoded From 600-Year-Old Carvings
RulerOf writes "Musicians recently unlocked a 600 year old mystery that had been encoded into the walls of the Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland, the one featured in The Da Vinci Code. The song was carved into the walls of the chapel in the form of geometric shapes that a father-son team — both are musicians and the father is an ex-Royal Air Force code breaker — finally matched to so-called Chladni patterns (see the Wikipedia article on cymatics). The recovered melody was paired with traditional lyrics (translated into Latin) and recorded; the result can be heard in this video (also linked from the musicians' website). The video also gives a visual representation of how the engravings match up to the cymatic patterns." From the Reuters article: "'The music has been frozen in time by symbolism... [The carvings] are of such exquisite detail and so beautiful that we thought there must be a message here.' The two men matched each of the patterns on the carved cubes to a Chladni pitch, and were able finally to unlock the melody."
And translated into hex it reads: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
I didn't think vinyl was that old.
When there's no killer albino on your tail.
Can't wait for the RIAA to try to collect royalties on that!
So the song enters the public domain in what, another decade or so?
"Oh boy! Are we going to try something dangerous?"
The mystery was unlocked after the following number has been applied to the code from the walls: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
You can't handle the truth.
RIAA: Circumventing this encryption is a DMCA violation!
The song is a physical component of the building. The public domain enters into the song. Sort of an acoustic Soviet Russia, if you will.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
You're right! I been seeing this 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 number sequence everywhere lately! I was freaking out. Thank you for giving me my sanity back
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
So, if I understand correctly, they circumvented a special visual encryption scheme to unlock this music. Then they made an unauthorized copy, which they performed, recorded and then uploaded to the Internet.
Jack Valenti heard about the whole thing and had a heart attack.
These people are terrorists. Not only did they steal a copyright owned by Jesus himself, from a Church, they hate our precious freedoms to help corporations own and profit from music.
The are probably pirating gay abortion manuals as we speak to sell to Hezbollah and undermine our troops in Iraq. Can someone put these enemy combatants on a no fly list before the unthinkable happens?
It's only tangentially related, but TFA reminds me of a (supposedly true) story I once read about a man who found a plaque bearing the initials "H.W.H." The plaque was in such a prominent position that he assumed it must have been dedicated to a very important person in the town's history. He spent YEARS in the library, poring over records dating back into the 1800's, but wasn't able to find anything. Finally, out of desperation, he placed an ad in the newspaper, requesting assistance in identifying the mysterious "H.W.H." The very next day, he was called upon by a younger gentleman who kindly informed him that his father, in fact, had been one of the people who installed the underground hot water heater.
You know, this could be the first sensible internet meme.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
You misspelled "Batman Returns".
rubbish. This security-through-obscurity method has taken 600 years to crack - plenty long enough for whoever encrypted it to not have to worry about the consequences. One in the eye for 'security experts'.
FGD 135
The fact that it took 600 years shows that music can be locked up even if it's in plain sight.
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Technically, wouldn't it be Analog Rights Management?