Secret Code in 'Cold Earth'?

[zeitgeist]

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-If the cosecha site was only meant to be used for the buildup to the announcement of TH, why is it still up? Why not just redirect to the BoC site? For that matter, why is hexagonsun.com redirecting there instead of boardsofcanada.com?

-Also, the domain name is cosecha-transmisiones. As in "transmissions", plural. The name itself speaks to the fact that there may be others besides the TH announcement/Semena Mertvykh video.

some valid and interesting points. although the site could be in progress of being rebuilt, the plural thing is kinda weird.

today's seeds tomorrow's harvest you can mount iso in openvms

i was under the impression that the cosecha thing was just some kind of flash program, not an actual login system for whatever the hell openVMS is.

[NorthcutTAmnestY]

No.

You guys have got the album; the site is still up because the webmaster hasn't taken it down yet.

[miklatov]

Okay i slowed the song down and centre pan filtered it. Here is what i have (not all of it is correct)

078427222730784222730784232734784293

anything that needs changing?

078427222730784222730784232734784293
078427222730784222730784232734784293

Dude, there are phone numbers in there!

EDIT: Nice job on the filtering - did you feel it helped much? Must give it a try myself, if so. Don't forget to enter your code on www.intraludus.com

[Alzado]

-If the cosecha site was only meant to be used for the buildup to the announcement of TH, why is it still up? Why not just redirect to the BoC site? For that matter, why is hexagonsun.com redirecting there instead of boardsofcanada.com?

remember there was supposed to be exclusive downloads available to folks who preordered from certain shops? it got scrapped because apparently warp could pull it off in time.

sooooo, that stuff is still just out there waiting to (hopefully) still be revealed. that's i'm guessing that's why the site is still up.

[miklatov]

Ok, so I created a .wav for each 'number' and listened to them all and grouped them accordingly.

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A: 1 12 21 30
B: 2 13 22 31
C: 3 14 23 32
D: 4 15 24 33
E: 5 16 25 34
F: 6 10 19 28
G: 7
H: 8 17
I: 9 18 27
J: 11 20 26 29 36
K: 35


So, for example, sound 'A' repeats for the 1st, 12th and 21st 'number' in the sequence.
'G' is that cute sounding 'zero'-ey one, and 'K' is that real tricky one that is second to last.

So the basic order is definitely

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ABCDEFGHIFJABCDEHIFJABCDEJIFJABCDEKJ

Of course, the trickiest part is still to find out what each of these sounds actually are, whether number or letter! Some are easy, e.g. C=8 and I=2

What stands out, and others have already mentioned this, is that there is a some repetition in there

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ABCDE-FGHIFJ-ABCDE-HIFJ-ABCDE-JIFJ-ABCDE-KJ

or even

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ABCDE-FGHI-FJABCDE-HI-FJABCDE-JI-FJABCDE-KJ

I'll probably update intraludus.com at some point to reflect all this, but for the time being I've uploaded all the samples to Sound Cloud https://soundcloud.com/miklatov

[Headphase]

Okay i slowed the song down and centre pan filtered it. Here is what i have (not all of it is correct)

078427222730784222730784232734784293

anything that needs changing?

078427222730784222730784232734784293
078427222730784222730784232734784293

Dude, there are phone numbers in there!

EDIT: Nice job on the filtering - did you feel it helped much? Must give it a try myself, if so. Don't forget to enter your code on www.intraludus.com

Filtering helped. After a while, you start to realise it's the same few numbers repeated over and over. I'm starting to think that the 0 sound may be "12" instead.

[miklatov]

Just uploaded samples H, I + D to https://soundcloud.com/miklatov . Not sure why they weren't there already - perhaps they were just HIDden, fnarr fn..ah forget it.

Headphase, I think I'll attempt some filtering on the SoundCloud samples and see how they turn out.

[Headphase]

Just uploaded samples H, I + D to https://soundcloud.com/miklatov . Not sure why they weren't there already - perhaps they were just HIDden, fnarr fn..ah forget it.

Headphase, I think I'll attempt some filtering on the SoundCloud samples and see how they turn out.

Awesome. I think that some of the numbers may be two digit numbers as well, so remember that.

[Dmitrii]

i believe that the voice snippets can be combined into something else.
i mean, in Cold Earth they are separated from each other and hence incomprehensible, but when they are merged one-to-one then all this may add up to something meaningful just like a word is a sum of letters.

[green calx]

Oh guys.. I have my own opinion about those weird voices.
Just think, Michael and Marco claim that the world is actually overloaded (overflowing).

Propably you noticed that there are few types of voices - child and adult.

There are more children voices than adult ones.

So the thing song wants to tell us is the fact that... There are more children than earth can handle. birthrate is getting bigger, which may lead us to something not really cool. That's all.

(do you remember when Eion said in the interview that he was some kind of witness of human's population number in the earth get doubled?)

[qazxswplmnko]

BoC is love. BoC is life.

[eric_schafer]

For anyone still trying to make sense of this damnable thing, here's my best effort at making it a little more comprehensible:

https://soundcloud.com/mocktender/numbers

[miklatov]

For anyone still trying to make sense of this damnable thing, here's my best effort at making it a little more comprehensible:

https://soundcloud.com/mocktender/numbers

Nice work - this really cleans it up a lot. Can definitely hear 'eight' very clearly now.

I wrote a quick script which automatically tests codes against http://cosecha-transmisiones.com/ . I've tested about 2000 or so permutations based on the results on my webpage (see sig) but no joy so far.

As an aside, there are 106,387,360,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 combinations of 36 characters from a-z and 0-9, and it would take 33,735,210 quadrillion quadrillion quadrillion years to test them all at a rate of 100 queries per second. I suspect they'd block my IP before that time....

[Geogandhi]

I love the theory behind this but I really can't make anything out of those garbled yelps.

[Basefree]

I love the theory behind this but I really can't make anything out of those garbled yelps.

I could hear 2, 8, se-- (7) and so forth, they're obviously cut, but I don't think anything can be made of those, as they could as well be something else than numbers.

My personal opinion is that this track doesn't include any codes, because they've usually made it "a bit" easier for the listener if there has been one. The voices seem to be modified beyond repair, so if there's a meaning it's probably only significant to them.

[RedMarauder]

BoC is love. BoC is life.

[Helios]

Do you guys have bat ears or something? I don't hear numbers at ALL. Just cut-up half words/syllables/yelps..

[Negamuse]

Do you guys have bat ears or something? I don't hear numbers at ALL. Just cut-up half words/syllables/yelps..

Same here.

[Reynolds]

I keep hearing
you - and - me - 8 - 3

[noveltywave]

Did anyone ever figure out what these numbers were?

I'm a long time lurker on this site. When the record came out I was following this thread and going to post my theory on the code, but I was too lazy, thinking "ah, somebody else will think the same as me and post it anyway", but I am not sure if anybody ever did.

As one user said, some of the numbers sound Spanish (ocho (8) etc). I speak Japanese and English and even from day one, whenever I play the song (like I just did tonight) I sing some of the numbers in Japanese (ichi (1), ni (2), kyu (9)) and some in English (6, 0).

Given TH's worldwide release campaign, I always thought the chain could be a mix of numbers from different languages (maybe even the countries involved in the release campaign?) and if we figured it out, there would be another code to enter in the cosecha-transmissiones website, which is long since gone now (but still there on Wayback Machine?).

I'm sure somebody else must have had this thought, or may have even figured out a code somewhere, or figured out there was never anything else on the cosecha site. If they did let me know, I've always been curious about it because the 36 numbers is too much of a coincidence not to be anything, and sometimes I wonder, what if they were just waiting for someone to figure this bit out before they move onto the next thing