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

Reminds me of this amazing story and song!

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

That's a very nice story.

Agreed, this story totally deserves a HN post.

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.

“Your foes look for you”

“What, me worry?”

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)

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

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.

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