Start the CD, and hit pause, so it's ready to go. Begin playing the film, with the volume up. Once the MGM lion finishes its third roar, unpause the CD. Now turn the movie's volume down, and listen carefully to the music. After 1:16, the first chord of "Breath" comes on. If you got the synch right, this should happens at the presice instant "Produced by Mervyn Leroyl" appears on the screen. If it worked, sit back, and enjoy..
What happens?
This particular synchronization is incredible mainly because of the coincidences between lyrics and events in the film. Listed below are the things to expect when you watch the film. You can look at these, but it's more fun to point them out to yourself.
> During the words, "when at last the work is done" the man on screen smacks his hand with a hammer and stops working.
> Dorothy is teetering on the fence to the pig pen when the band is singing "balanced on the biggest wave".
> Dorothy falls into the pig bin just as you hear "race towards an early grave" and the music changes.
> Auntie Em appears and starts talking at the same moment you hear the woman's voice in the background of "On The Run".
> One of the most astounding coincidences, Mrs. Gulch appears riding her bicycle at the same moment you hear the alarm clock bells going off.
> During the lyrics, "kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town," Toto hops out of Mrs. Gulch's basket and runs back to the farm.
> Professor Marvel appears at Dorothy's back on the lyrics, "racing around to come up behind you again".
> When Dorothy leaves the fortune teller to return to the farm, the lyrical content, "home, home again" is playing.
> When the twister is shown for the second time, a voice is heard in the background saying "i am not frightened of dying".
> "The Great Gig In The Sky" is in spectacular synchronization with the scene in which Dorothy's house is lifted up in the tornado and flown across the sky.
> The second Dorothy steps out into the colorful land of Oz, the first cash register sound is heard.
> Glinda the good witch appears during the lyrics, "don't give me that do goody good bullshit".
> The mayor of munchkin land speaks to Dorothy as the voices on the CD say "i don't know i was really drunk at the time, etc...".
> The lollipop guild bring out their lollipop on the word "me" and hand it to Dorothy on the word "You"
>The wicked witch of the west appears as the word "black" is said.
> The good witch and bad witch confront each other as the band sings "and who knows which is which?".
> When Glinda talks to Dorothy, voices that sound like they are giving advise are heard.
> About the same time the scarecrow starts singing, "Brain Damage" begins.
> The scarecrow and Dorothy walk off down the yello brick road as the band sings, "i'll see you on the dark side of the moon".
> Each time Dorothy knocks on the tinman, laughter is heard.
> The scarecrow squirts oil into the tinman's mouth as you hear, "all that you taste"
> The heartbeat is heard as Dorothy listens to the tinman's chest for a heartbeat.
It's okay if you don't get this one perfect. On the film, Dave has just powered down the HAL 9000 computer, when a pre-recorded video starts to play, informing Dave of the true nature of his mission: to rendezvous with an alien monolith in orbit around Jupiter. Have "Echoes" paused at the beginning and ready to play. The last line of the briefing is "...it's origin and purpose still a total mystery." Once this is finished, start the CD, and the first ping should correspond with the appearance of the title screen for "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite."
What happens?
The most amazing non-drug induced trip of your life. Take a psychedellic journey through space and time into a world beyond the reality in which "no one speaks and no one tries and no one flies around the sun..."
> Two verses have gone by when you reach the monolith in your pod. Just as you hear "no one flies around the sun" a hole seems to open up in space and star dust pours out.
> The next thing you know, you're flying faster than light through a sea of colors in various shapes and frequencies as the music goes through a long, intense instrumental.
> The intensity of the music gives way to a softer beat as the pod now floats through space over planets, through star clusters, and into vast nebulae.
> As the music dies down, the journey brings you over a variety of terrestrial landscapes with colours unlike any that anyone has ever seen before. Fly over these alien worlds as you hear screams and musical echoes ringing through your ears. Quite an amazing segment.
> The screams and echoes die down making way for some soft music as the pod is now in a hotel room, and Dave's journey is complete.
> The soft beat grows gradually louder and finally reaches its climax at 18:14 when the realization hits that Dave is aging right before his own eyes.
> As Dave lies in his death bed, and reaches up for the monolith, the lyrics return, saying prophesizing that we'll "...throw the windows wide, and call to you across the sky."
>Dave becomes the Star Child and is instantly transported back through space to earth's orbit where the music returns to the gentle pinging, and he wonders "what will he do next?" But as Arthur C. Clarke wrote, and as the music suggests, "he will think of something."
