‘Your foes look for you’: revealing a secret message in a piece of music

[tintinnabula]

http://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2018/02/conceal-yourself-your-foes-look-for-you-revealing-a-secret-message-in-a-piece-of-music.html

[dag11]

Reminds me of this amazing story and song!

https://www.theverge.com/2015/1/7/7483235/the-code-colombian...

[jacquesm → dag11]

That's a very nice story.

[squarefoot → jacquesm]

Agreed, this story totally deserves a HN post.

[yesenadam]

The ancestor of Mad magazine fold-ins?

I was expecting some dubious Bible code or play-it-backwards -type thing, but this is a cool idea. However the message is just in the sheet music, not in a piece of music at all.

[smudgymcscmudge → yesenadam]

“Your foes look for you”

“What, me worry?”

[mgeorgoulo]

Reminds me of Bertrand Russell who used to write English in Greek characters to keep his diary private as a child :)

(Anecdote from "Logicomix" graphic novel)

[krapp → mgeorgoulo]

Also, Japanese poet Takuboku Ishikawa wrote parts of his diary in Romaji so that his wife couldn't read them.

[sizzzzlerz]

The Beatles did this centuries later, announcing the demise of mate Paul McCartney when they recorded "I buried Paul" backwards on the song Strawberry Fields Forever.

[basementcat → sizzzzlerz]

Not unlike Nostradamus, they managed to announce the event several decades before it actually happened.