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BELT

⊕BELT is series that was uploaded to Stabilitory newing. ⊕BELT 0 was posted on May 17, 2017 (the same day as ♐RATE was posted). The series ended with ⊕BELT 24, posted on June 1, 2017. ♐BRING was posted on the main channel the next day.

Unlike ⊕BROTHER, there does not yet seem to be a “counterpart” for this series — although the main channel’s ♐BROTHER didn’t start until nearly three weeks after Stabilitory newing’s series began.

Description of videos

⊕BELT videos are 6:10 (370 seconds) in length with a with a shifting “histogram” effect, similar to other stabilitory newing videos.

Audio analysis

The audio for ⊕BELT videos is in a stereo track, with “chirping robot” type sounds similar to other stabilitory newing videos. In most cases, the left channel has a louder signal, with a quieter/degraded/modified version in the right channel. Sometimes the sounds are more musical (similar to a glitchy chiptunes effect), and sometimes more like a data transmission.
Many of the audio tracks include extensive use of some sort of half wave rectification effect on the audio, removing most of the negative samples.
The audio is often similar overall, and many videos re-use the exact same audio track from a previous one, including:
- ⊕BELT 0, 7, 11, 17, 21
- ⊕BELT 1, 3, 13
- ⊕BELT 2, 8, 12
- ⊕BELT 4, 20, 23, 24
- ⊕BELT 5, 10
- ⊕BELT 6, 18 (special case; see below)
- ⊕BELT 9, 22

(Therefore from BELT 0 to 24 inclusive only 14, 15, 16 and 19 have unique audio)

⊕BELT 6 & 18 are a special case: they have what appears to be identical audio, but shifted from each other by a few samples in some parts. Therefore they do not invert or cancel cleanly.

Sampling

Ben’s Fractals: I think that the audio in the BROTHER series may have been slowed by 20x since the frequency cutoff of the tracks is a dead-on 2.4kHz (0.05x of 48kHz) and the 48kHz sample rate is a standard for audio processing.

I do think the BELT series samples some audio from the BROTHER series too.

The top is BELT 2 like usual and the bottom is a copy of the track slowed by 14 semitones, matching it perfectly.

Because this isn’t in percentage values and instead in perfect semitone offsets this suggest that this sample or whatever is being played like a soundfont.

Same is applying to the really high frequency things, instead matching at -37 semitones. May be there could be a hidden message in the semitone values for these things?

Significance of name & possible relationship to other UFSC videos

“belt” has some astronomical connotations (asteroid belts, the Kuiper Belt, Orion’s Belt, etc.)
Belt problems are a specific type of math problem dealing with belts and pulleys - in antiquity, belts were used in cryptography along with scytales to create a code similar to a Caesar cipher.

Composites

N25_CT13: belt, 365x365, third column

SN.belt.webp