Prince | Andrea Mai

REFLECTION ON SIX YEAR ANNIVERSARY, PRINCE CELEBRATION 2022

Ever since 2016, after Prince’s passing, I’ve noticed snow in April. This year was no exception. It snowed here on Easier Monday. I heard that this year was supposed to be an early spring according to the groundhog, but it doesn’t feel like it to me…

I’ve continued to record EVP, though I’ve been busy with my work. I get the sense that he is content, where he is. I think that people’s feelings on the other side is very transparent. And sometimes I hear them say things like “You are happy”, or “Prince happy”. Where he is at, it is a joyful existence, filled with friends, foodie treats, and lots of fun.

I’ve been avoiding Facebook in the past year, it has been where the place where I get most Prince related news. So I don’t always know what is going on, as I just don’t pay attention to FB anymore, But recently, I could remember one time thinking to myself, wishing that there was some kind of video recording of Prince when he was a kid. I wondered if there was any chance that such a thing existed. I wanted to hear his kid voice. And then one day, I went onto my FB feed and scrolled. A news article about a news station finding a recording of P from when he was about eleven years old. I felt like my wish had come true. But when I looked at the date of the news release, it made me realize that perhaps when I was having those wishful thoughts, it was actually him telling me about this thing, and I just misunderstood thinking it was my thoughts. Telepathy is funny like that. A similar thing happened when the Prince Estate released a collection of face masks for covid. I literally saw the designs in my head, and they were released in an announcement shortly after, exactly what I saw! What a trippy feeling!

I can’t wait until it is finally warm enough to start working in the garden again. I’ve been planning out the garden in my mind and looking for seeds. I’m thinking about a bed of sweet violets, how the smell would be glorious in bloom.

Now that’s it’s been six years since his passing. It feels like a long time ago, because the world is such a different place now. What I wouldn’t give to be in a more innocent world… There are going to be more difficult times ahead for many people. My hope is that people make things right in their lives before it’s too late.

Prince lived his life fully. He accomplished many things with the time that he had. And I know, he left this world knowing that there was more he would have liked to do. But for the most part, he had pursued all his interests to a level of personal satisfaction. Not many people can say that. His dear friend, Lenny Kravitz said that about himself in an interview mentioning Prince. For myself, I am doing that. I am revisiting interests, making right of things that I did wrong, salvaging projects that I didn’t finish, pursuing interests with a renewed perspective and confidence. Accomplishing and doing things that my younger self would not have dared to try. I am happy doing these things, and I know I will one day leave this world feeling fulfilled and grateful for all I had gotten to experience.

I hope you are all doing well, staying sae out there in this world.

MAKING A SLIME VIDEO + 432 HZ MUSIC

I recently came across this kids trend, where slime has been reinvented. When I was a kid, I remember they would sell slime in a vending machine at the super market. The new slimes comes with fragrances and glitter, and comes in a variety of textures. And when I found out how easy it is the make, I couldn’t help but give it a try.

I made mine with a typical white glue and borax solution. The first one I tried out was :over-activated” and came out too hard, it was more like a putty. But it was still fun, it’s like squeezing a stress ball, except it doesn’t bounce back into its shape.

I made a second batch, this time being more patient to stir in the activator a little at a time. It became a gooey, milky looking slime. I added magenta coloured mica and it gave this rose quartz look to it, a subtle shimmer. I also added gold leaf and kneaded it in, the leaf sheet would break into dust the more I worked it in. It was beautiful. I was going to just make a quick video to document its gorgeousness, just for myself. But I ended up editing the video and it grew. Do you know that feeling? When you start something, not really intending much, but you’re struck with creativity and you have to see it through. I had some 432 hz music that I had recorded a while back, just sitting in archives. I paired it with the video.

And as I was editing and playing around, I discovered this little Easter egg of a trivial fact. The little radio sample at the beginning of my video, Prince used the exact same sample at the beginning of his Art Official Age track, Clouds. I had always wondered about that track, if that sample was a basic stock sample, or something he created from scratch. I had felt inspired by that track and thought of it on many occasions. I had a feeling that it sounded very familiar to me, having spent many hours playing around on Mac iMovies. The sample clip is a sound effect sample that comes with iMovies. I only realized this after I made my video and posted it. I went to check out his track to verify and discovered it was the same one. Here we are, twinning again. Here’s my slime video set to original stock music that I composed.

LISTENING TO VINYL WITH P – EVP October 4, 2021

Last year I got a couple of vintage 7-inch Prince vinyl. One day, when I was home alone, I decided to play them and record with my EVP recorder.

Playing vinyl is like opening a gateway to memories of simpler times; when society didn’t feel so complicated, and the future felt more optimistic. I enjoy collecting and turning them into framed displays.

When I reviewed the EVP, I could hear them talking to each other.

I put on Baby I’m A Star, and caught someone saying, “Happy”. I guess someone was excited!

The phone rang, and P said, “It’s the phone” and other voices were saying “Phone”. P’s voice is a bit drowned out, it’s better heard with headphones.

Right after the line, take me with you, someone said, “Someday”.

During Take Me With U, I found this deep voice saying “Pick up”. But this was already after I had gotten the phone call, so I don’t really know what this was about. Maybe a call over there?

In this clip, someone is saying, “How are you”.

Someone commented, “Pretty”.

Someone came looking for P, and said, “Prince”.

I’ve noticed from what I can capture on EVP, conversations between spirits seem to be very brief, said in a few words, and I think there is likely much more going on than what we can observe. They may be conveying their communication in other forms through telepathy; thoughts, feelings, images, memories, can be shared easily.

These recordings were recorded using my EVP Wrist Recorder 3 on October 4, 2021.

“Books and Records” by Andrea Mai.

FRIENDS IN SPIRIT, JUST HANGING OUT – EVP November 27, 2021

Do spirits get lonely? My answer is, they don’t seem to be, in my observation. If they are, it is by choice, because they don’t have to be, there is just so many of them over there. However depending on the attitude of the spirit, they might create a situation of isolation. I once captured an EVP where the voice of a young boy moaned, “Why is no one here?”. Others were able to hear him and they advised him on how to break out of his isolation.

To my knowledge, P is doing very well, and he is happy. He is surrounded by so many friends by his side. I often hear him having conversations with others. They seem really joyous, reminiscent of the joy of friends hanging out as children.

Here are 2 clips from my most recent EVP recording session with the EVPmaker. It sounded to me like P had visitors with him.

Someone asked him about his dog. He replied, “That’s Mia”. You can hear him in the background between the gibberish. Then at the end of the clip, Mia barked, as if to respond! She is so cute.

I had my collection of silk scarves hanging on the rack in the room. P told the guests, “Andrea make them scarves, silk scarves”. I’ve often noticed P showing my work to his guests. I’m really touched that they take an interest.

These recordings were recorded using my EVP Wrist Recorder 3 on November 27, 2021.

MORE EVP TESTS WITH PRINCE ROGERS NELSON

Now that the weather’s cooled down and there is less to do in the garden, I’ve brought my focus back to doing EVP using the EVPMaker software. From my experience, EVP as a phenomenon is occurring all the time, but it often only captured by chance. To do it intentionally, with good audio clarity is a different story, It’s not really anything I can control, because it is them on the other side causing it. The best that I can contribute is to continue to do the recordings so that they can test and practice the methodology (of whatever it is they are doing). In a way, it’s kind of like when you are riffing away on the piano or guitar, and you suddenly get something you like, but because you were less intentional, playing around, experimenting, you don’t necessarily know what exactly it is that you did. So you have to go back and re-engineer the result, and then practice it til you’ve figured out how to play it. That is what we are trying to do right now. Figure out how P can speak on EVP intentionally with clarity and volume. Through out the recordings, I can hear them talking to each other in whisper volume. I think they’re working out technical issues.

We did some test recording sessions, and here’s what we got. Sometimes when we’re testing, I’ll ask him to say his full name, or my name.

“I’m here”.

” I am Prince Rogers Nelson”. I find this clip rather funny, because there is nothing in the sound source that is this low pitched. The sound source contains only samples of his own voice. So I wonder if he was manipulating it to sound lower like this. You can also hear his higher pitched voice speaking simultaneously.

“Prince Rogers Nelson”.

“Doing EVP”.

“Andrea”.

“Prince Nelson”.

These recordings were recorded using my EVP Wrist Recorder 3 in September 2021.

Image above: “Prince” by Prince in spirit.

PRINCE’S HOBBY ON THE OTHER SIDE – EVP September 26, 2021

I have some exciting new EVP recordings. I’ve been trying out more of the EVP Maker software. The software allows yo to import a wave file containing voice samples, so that it can produce a randomized sound stream. This way, if there is any EVP, it will sound like the person’s voice from when they were living. I’m finding its results to be very hit or miss. But when it’s a hit, it’s really incredible stuff. So it’s worth trying, even if those sessions that don’t work out, maybe the next one will. I think they are learning to maneuver the process. It’s a learning curve for all of us.

Prince with his camera, source not known.

I know P loved doing photography as a hobby, and he still loves it. I hope one day his personal photography from his life will be published. I was hoping to see more of it in his memoir, but that didn’t happen. As you know, we both love photography, and we both have the camera lenses to prove it!

In a recording session, I caught him talking to someone about his new camera, and then taking the guy’s photo, and then even printing it out! I am really stunned. I even heard what sounds like a camera shutter going off in the background as he was taking photos. I have a hard time imagining what it looks like over there, but hearing the sounds from over there is fascinating. I imagine that one day when we meet, he is going to show me his many volumes of photo albums.

P said, “I got a new camera”.

“Goes on the tripod. This one got at Henry’s”. Henry’s is a chain of camera stores in Canada. Did he go shopping there without me, I wonder? Or did he get it when I was there to buy a new printer last year?

“Let me take your portrait”.

“Let’s print that one”.

“Let me test print”.

“The main drums, it makes a great image”. I really wonder what he meant by this. Maybe he took a photo with his drums?

I’m really glad to know that he gets to do the things he enjoys over there. I’m just in awe that I get to hear about it.

Self-portrait, 2018.

Here are a compilation of random clips I caught.

“Andrea”.

“Sleeping, wake up”.

“I am Prince”.

“Warning, vaccine”.

“All these complications”.

“Good bye”.

I will definitely keep trying more recording sessions with the EVP Maker. I wonder why some sessions are better than others.

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These recordings were recorded using my EVP Wrist Recorder 3 along with EVP Maker 2.5, on September 26, 2021.

Image above: “Prince Sun” by Andrea Mai. Available here.

PRINCE AND I TRY EVP MAKER 2.5 – May 21, 2021

I recently started using a program called EVP Maker to record EVP. The software allows you to import speech samples and then generate a random gibberish from the sample. I have found that spirits don’t really sound the way they did in life, as they no longer have vocal cords. My theory is that they use thoughts to speak, and somehow these thoughts generate a frequency that can affect the sounds in our environment. So creating a gibberish from the person’s voice can help them speak in the voice we knew them for. It’s not a perfect technology, it doesn’t work all the time, and they can sound robotic. But it can give very tangible results that are audible to most ears. I’ve found that EVPs recorded in silence are near impossible to hear. I do have the ability to hear them, but I can rarely make out what is being said from their chatter.

Contrary to what people might assume, it is not assembling the chopped up syllables together in any way. The way it works with customized gibberish, is that the sound of the gibberish allows them to speak over it and it results in blending their voice into it, so that it sounds like them. Sometimes I hear it being described as “changing the sound”, but I don’t feel that it is accurate to say that, as it would assume that they are doing it intentionally. I think this occurs naturally, like a scientific law; when these circumstances are present, this is what occurs. Like when you put a mic close to a speaker, feedback will occur. The reason you want a randomly generated gibberish is so that there are no words in the sound sample that could be mistaken for an EVP utterance.

The process is a little annoying for me, as the program can only be run on Windows. I have to use my old computer, which is very slow to work with. At first I didn’t hear much, but as I went through the recordings slowly, I found more clips that I didn’t notice earlier. Here are some clips from my recording sessions. Please note, they don’t speak like us any more, so you cannot expect perfectly sounding speech on EVP. In some clips, the syllables are spaced out, it varies.

This was from the very first recording, he says, “That’s the first time. Speak to me”.

“Hold on… Let’s see if work… That’s better”.

He said, “Always loved you. Ha. I sound funny”.

Then I heard, a basketball bounce, “Duane here”. Usually a basketball bounce means his half-brother is around. P said, “Basketball game here (bounce), I’m gonna watch”. P loves basketball, and his brother was a professional player. Later, he worked as a bodyguard for P.

I came back later and tried another recording. I asked him to try to say his name, “Prince Rogers Nelson”. The Prince part didn’t come out with the gibberish, but you can hear “Prince” spoken, and then “Rogers Nelson” very clearly immediately after in the gibberish.

He said, “I’m happy with Andrea”.

I wanted to make a recording of the gibberish itself, but I couldn’t figure out how to record what was coming from the computer and not from the mic. I caught P in conversation with others. He said, “I’m reading to them, passport, my book”. I thought this was a bit strange, Passport? Then I realized, there’s a pic of P’s passport in his book. I guess he was showing some people his memoir.

“That’s my passport”. I have to say, that it is one good looking passport photo, Must be the best I’ve ever seen. (Refer to above photo)

This is quite an exciting discovery. I wish it could run on Mac, or if someone could make an app version for mobile devices. I will definitely try it out again in the future.

Image above: “P Passport” by Andrea Mai.