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Re: [idm] music for airports (and BOC)

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2001-01-22 19:04Stan Parkes Re: [idm] music for airports (and BOC)
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2001-01-22 19:04Stan ParkesMaybe it's all interconnected with what Boards of Canada refer to as "Off-center Wobble".
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Re: [idm] music for airports (and BOC)
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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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