Maybe it's all interconnected with what Boards of
Canada refer to as "Off-center Wobble".
And as far as BOC are concerned, maybe the commune
they are living in really is cult headquarters, the
Blue Oyster Cult. :p
(oYo)
ofis really
--- Martin Glaubitz <Martin.Glaubitz@transcore.com>
wrote:
quoted 42 lines So I think I've heard from this list that the
> So I think I've heard from this list that the
> fractured-patterned line
> graphics on the Autechre covers don't correspond
> with the music itself. With
> that in mind......
>
> Brian Eno's Music for Airports has a pictogram-ish
> graphic identified on the
> liner art for each of the 4 tracks. It seems like
> there's a bit of
> resemblence between the tracks and the graphics. The
> first track has a
> graphic of a single phrase repeated numerous times,
> with different
> components highlighted each time, which matches the
> audio track. The 2nd
> track, which is seemingly sonically unsyncopated,
> has an appropriate graphic
> where individual sections repeat, but with different
> offsets, so they don't
> mesh rhythmically. Also, the 2nd track uses only
> voices, so the pictogram
> features only shaded boxes for that track, whereas
> the other tracks have
> multiple symbols to correspond with their richer
> palette of sounds.
>
> It looks like they're supposed to be some sort of
> universal symbolic
> transcription or score of each song, like something
> NASA would shoot up in
> the deep space probe for extraterrestrial life or
> something. Or maybe a
> computer printout of the pattern entered into a
> sequencer for each song. But
> this was 1978; had a computer sequencer been created
> yet at that time?
>
>
>
>
>
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