Conet: Notes

Video: Azumanga Daioh
Audio: Conet Project audio clips
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In 2007, I noticed people discussing a multi-editor project that godix was running in the #amv IRC channel. It seemed they were using audio from The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations, recordings largely consisting of recited numbers, believed to be secret encoded messages. This seemed to be pretty out of the ordinary audio to use, and I wondered what they'd come up with.

One of the first things that came to mind when I thought of numbers was "math class", so I figured I could do something with Azumanga Daioh. I talked to godix to see if there was room for another video in the project. Without fear for my sanity, I listened to all the Conet recordings I could find, to find bits and pieces to use.

The recordings are not entirely made up of recited (English) numbers. There are also short songs to help distinguish one station or message from another, numbers in other languages, Morse code, and the NATO phonetic alphabet. I took snippets of all of these to create a video portraying a day at school.

A couple of the images used in the computer segment were found on the Internet, uncredited. The "One Time Pad" banner refers to the type of encryption used to encode messages.

The segment near the end with Kimura-sensei is a Gundam Wing-based yaoi joke, since the character names in that show are based on numbers.