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Jovian EchoesThe most lauded synchronicity outside "Dark Side of the Rainbow" is one I call "Jovian Echoes," also variously called "2001-Echoes," "JaBtI-Echoes," "Echoes Beyond the Infinite," or just "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite." This synchronicity is created by playing the last section of director Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey, separately titled "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite" -- or JaBtI for short -- with Pink Floyd's psychedelic powerhouse "Echoes" from their 1971 album Meddle (Floyd’s studio album before Dark Side of the Moon). The set up is very simple: pause 2001 just before the title frame for "Jupiter & Beyond the Infinite," pause Meddle at the beginning of "Echoes," and unpause both audio and video at the same time. The beginning of the title frame should corresponds exactly with the first "ping" of "Echoes." Some verteran synchers also believe that placing this initial ping a second or two before the appearance of the JaBtI title brings slightly better results. In either case, "Echoes" and the 2001 movie as a whole should essentially end at exactly the same time. As far as I know, unlike the components of "Dark Side of the Rainbow," there are no variant versions of 2001 or "Echoes" to complicate matters here. To find out more about this synchronicity, visit the "Jupiter & Beyond the Infinite" page from Mike Johnston’s "Synchronicity Arkive."
This synchronicity is Mike's favorite, by the way.
Contact Echoes
Another very interesting synchronicity, and one that mysteriously appears to be almost a bookend complement to "Jovian Echoes," is a more unknown one called "Contact Echoes." It was discovered by Shawn Hare, who, as mentioned before, runs one of the premier "Dark Side of the Rainbow" sites. "Contact Echoes" synchronizes the "second machine" section near the end of popular 1997 science fiction movie Contact with Floyd’s "Echoes." In this part of the movie, lead character Ellie Arroway, played by Jodie Foster, appears to make contact with aliens from the Vega star system. Again the set up is simple. Unpause "Echoes" just before Ellie is reunited with her boyfriend Palmer Joss in Japan, right when the door first opens to her quarters after the scene change. The previous scene is where she is given the suicide pill by site scientists. You can get some more information about this synchronicity, including a brief analysis, from Shawn’s The Definitive List.
In my own opinion, a correct understanding of "Contact Echoes" could help elevate the study of video/audio synchronicities to newer heights. For one thing -- and this is an aspect Shawn really likes -- it is one of the first really profound synchronicities discovered that had no possible chance of being created on purpose by Pink Floyd (Contact being a quite recent movie, unlike The Wizard of Oz or 2001). But it is the comparison with "2001-Echoes" that really interests me; together, their involved components seem to form an almost perfect triangle of relationships.
Click here to read more about "Contact Echoes" in comparison with The Wizard of Oz, 2001, and one visionary's real life "extraterrestrial journey."
Dark Side of the Yellow Submarine
One other synchronicity I want to discuss here is what I call "Dark Side of the Yellow Submarine," a personal find which synchronizes Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon with the acclaimed 1969 Beatles animated film Yellow Submarine. While admittedly not as strong overall as "Dark Side of the Rainbow," which uses the same sound source, it still contains some quite remarkable stretches. And "Dark Side of the Yellow Submarine" is one of the few synchronicities in my experience that actually works better using the repeat mode on a CD player, at least for the first 10 minutes or so. The set up, however, is just a touch tricky. Pause Dark Side of the Moon at track 1, as you would with "Dark Side of the Rainbow." Begin the Yellow Submarine movie. At the first frame of the actual movie (when "Once Upon A Time..." appears), reset the timer to 0:00 and run the tape ahead to about 3:00. This should take you to the place where the Blue Meanies first begin zapping Pepperlanders and turning them to stone. When the first Pepperlander is zapped, turning the mustashed figure gray, wait until the scene changes again just a second later -- to a giant Sgt. Pepper head which also subsequently gets zapped and sinks into the ground -- and immediately reset the timer to 0:00. Now run Yellow Submarine back about 10 seconds or so, punch play, and unpause Dark Side of the Moon when the VCR timer reaches 0:00 again.
A good test to see if your set up is correct is if the sculpted word "KNOW" changes to "NOW" at the transition between the songs "Speak to Me" and "Breathe." Another test further along is when the Liverpool smokestacks should "erupt" with the previously discussed bells in "Time." Again, as with the very similar Gulch-bells synchronicity in "Dark Side of the Rainbow," this matching should be precise(!) If you want to simply watch the second run through of "Dark Side of the Yellow Submarine," unpause Dark Side of the Moon again at beginning of track 1, this time when Ringo clasps the Nowhere Man’s hand (to take him somewhere) at the end of the Nowhereland scenes. Stop the synchronicity when reaching Pepperland or shortly thereafter.
"Dark Side of the Yellow Submarine" offers a great alternative to "Dark Side of the Rainbow," and is, in my opinion, much more entertaining than simply watching the second and third run throughs of the latter. Be patient through the couple of dead parts, for the live ones are well worth it!
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!!!
Yellow Submarine, one of my all time favorite movies, was re-released in the Fall of 1999, complete with a new soundtrack and additional scenes. The synchronicity "Dark Side of the Yellow Submarine" still works as described above with this new version.
Check out more Yellow Submarine info at http://www.21stcenturyradio.com/yellowsubmarine.html
(at the Hieronimus & Co., Inc. site) and
at http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~ms538596/feature.html
My question: how do we all fit in there?
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