Skimming Stone wrote:Would be pretty great to find the "Noataaak" sample within the Ice Fishing clip. Would put to rest anyone speculating that the voice isn't actually saying that.
You know, I processed the hell out of the sample in that video and although the pronunciation is slightly off, the overall phonetic sound was similar enough that it could have resulted in that vocoded snippet. It could also be that it was re-recorded. It could also be that it's a different sample of the same word, now knowing that it isn't pronounced wildly differently.
All that said, I feel it's a little redundant. I have little doubt now knowing that this tape going all the way back to Old Tunes provided samples they'd use all the way to at least Geogaddi that the voice is saying "Noatak", though it could be something very similar as with the revelation that "for sand and stars" has been "we'll sail to the stars" and nobody seemed to know or hear it. The redundant bit is that
with this same thing in mind, paired with the fact that samples used for track names often appear in different tracks, confirming that sample in the ATP track still doesn't confirm it is the track of the same name. Makes it a little more likely, but that's about it. It still sounds like something I'd expect to hear on Hooper Bay with its minimal structure + dark ambient segment not too distant in tone from Circle, and while I'm still going to continue using that nickname for the track like others, it'll possibly be nothing but speculation forever.