Verbal Summator

"Verbal Summator" is a hidden track by British progressive metal band Haken, appearing the band's fifth album, Vector. The song is not shown on the album's tracklist.

The song plays after the end of "A Cell Divides" on the physical release of the album and afterr the end of "A Cell Divides - instrumental version" on the digital release.

Basis

NOTE: It's recommended that you know the basis of the album before you read this.

A verbal summator is a device for repeating arbitrary samples of speech obtained by permuting and combining certain elemental speech-sounds that acts as an auditory equivilent of a Rorschach test.

The samples used are basic vowels, Ē (as in Vector), Ā (ah), Ī (ih), Ä (ay), Ō (as in Roach), AND Ö (as in Doctor).

Production

Little is known about the production of "Verbal Summator"

Lyrics

"Verbal Summator" lyrics [Click here]
ī ā ö ä ā ö ō ä
ā ö ä ö ē ä ö ī
ö ā ī ō
ö ī ā ō ē
ö ö ō ē ō ö
ā ä ī ō
ā ö ō ā ä ā ā

Personnel

Haken
  • Ross Jennings - vocals
  • Richard Henshall - guitars
  • Charlie Griffiths - guitars
  • Diego Tejeida - keyboards, sound design
  • Conner Green - bass
  • Raymond Hearne - drums

Trivia

  • "Verbal Summator" is shown in the lyric book as a cassette tape with "Patient #21 - VERBAL SUMMATOR TEST" written on it.

Links
"Verbal Summator"
Hidden track by Haken
Album Vector
Genre Ambient, Spoken Word
Length 1:07
Live Plays N/A
Vector
"A Cell Divides" • "Verbal Summator"

"Alien imposter, pretender. I'll keep you safe now, close to my heart"

A Cell Divides, from Vector