That other thread ....

I thought we were having a good old discussion in there but alas the thread has been locked!

Anyway, I conclude that MDG (or whatever the Hexagonsun he/she/it is called) should shut the f**k up & keep all their BoC talk to themselves. How about exercising a bit of that patience people are talking about & stop with the fanning the flames posts?! When it's here. That's how I see it & I certainly don't want a running diary as someone on the other thread suggested. I'm looking forward to more BoC material but it's not the be all & end all. Plenty of other fantastic stuff out there.

BTW, I posted a link to a couple of tracks on the other thread, which I cunningly claimed were new found leaks from my fake Heaxagonsun domain!! I fooled round about ........ zero people!! But those tracks were actually from a very interesting album of old TV music from the late 70's/early 80's that I would like to draw people's attention to. It's on a label could 'Ghost Box'. Thwy have released some really cool stuff that I think fans of BoC's music will really like;

Other Channels - THE ADVISORY CIRCLE

http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=281584

The Owl's Map - BELBURY POLY

http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=281601

From An Ancient Star - BELBURY POLY

http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=281599

We Are All Pan's People - THE FOCUS GROUP

http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=281583

we have a perfectly good ghostbox thread.

ghostbox is great music, but this is the boc subforum.

now stop trolling you twat.

  On 3/6/2010 at 12:06 AM, kaini said:

now stop trolling you twat.

  On 3/6/2010 at 12:06 AM, kaini said:

we have a perfectly good ghostbox thread.

ghostbox is great music, but this is the boc subforum.

now stop trolling you twat.

Good lord, we locked the thread for a reason.

Don't just start a new one so you can continue the discussion that was locked.

Didn't realise there was a Ghost Box thread .......... didn't look to be honest ............ didn't think people on hear listened to anything but BoC!!

i'm with dogboy on this... i won't trust anyone but warp... and lol alzado's contact... they've got the scoop!

I was nostalg-bombing youtube.com tonight and tripped over a Sesame Street

animated vignette we are familiar with here, where a lumpy man discovers an

orange on a pedestal, advances upon it, and (much to the exasperation of the

fruit) consumes its essence, and names it. I could not help watching it again.

Other youtube video suggestions included this animated vignette:

We see a well-dressed man (voiced by Jim Henson) answer a ringing telephone, and

in fact the call is for a large potted plant nearby (very silly) and the plant

takes the call, and chats away in a high pitched warble.

I recognized this warble as sped up human speech. The effect is used much in

cartoons and comedy programs usually for unseen parties on the other ends of

phones, or in this case, a plant on a phone. I thought, golly they could have

been saying anything in those instances, and at that speed, no one would know!

http://kiwi6.com/uploads/hotlink?id=i0o131e744

Please find my experiment above. First you hear the original sample, and then

the sample reduced 32 semitones. This alone wasn't enough, I discovered, for the

speech was also reversed. The example above was also reversed.

Alert Henrietta Pussycat, it's a clip from a documentary on telephone

technology, specific to speech synthesis and the computer. We hear the narrator

(did I hear him narrate NFBC's "Magic in the Sky"?) and he introduces the

subject, a speech synthesizer, and hear it process the human voice, specifically

a famous bit of Hamlet. Telephone indeed!

Funny thing is I've seen the sourced documentary but I can't remember much else

about it. I recall the specific scene, which must have stood out, but its foggy.

I was hoping to find the documentary on youtube to bring it all around in a

bundle but no soap.

A subliminal education? A crafty joke? Is it possible the same gremlins

responsible for "Geo-rebus" were dancing around CTW? Someone should dedicate an

archive to decrypted sped-up-telephone talk.

I don't get the Ghostbox connection if unless its that they are doing a amazing job with their tunes.

i can see a connection between the disjointed stuff the focus group does and stuff like gyroscope from geogaddi

i can also see a bit of a connection in the fascination with 1970s public information films, and major-key melodies that become sinister through subtle detuning (more BoC) or disjointedness and fracturedness (more ghost box). it all kinda vaguely falls under the umbrella of what people are calling hauntology (which has very little to do with derrida's philosophical term of the same name). see also: trunk records, broadcast (obv)., ariel pink, moon wiring club, seeland, plone, the white noise, silver apples, hp lovecraft, arthur machen... it's a very vague term really.

  On 3/7/2010 at 12:41 AM, kaini said:

i can see a connection between the disjointed stuff the focus group does and stuff like gyroscope from geogaddi

i can also see a bit of a connection in the fascination with 1970s public information films, and major-key melodies that become sinister through subtle detuning (more BoC) or disjointedness and fracturedness (more ghost box). it all kinda vaguely falls under the umbrella of what people are calling hauntology (which has very little to do with derrida's philosophical term of the same name). see also: trunk records, broadcast (obv)., ariel pink, moon wiring club, seeland, plone, the white noise, silver apples, hp lovecraft, arthur machen... it's a very vague term really.

Yes quite, in fact hauntology is a term I had not encountered until recently.. origins deserving a good look into on my part! No end to knowing.

a good starting point (which, full disclosure, i made): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Ghost_Box_Music

  On 3/6/2010 at 10:03 PM, asymmetrical head said:

i'm with dogboy on this... i won't trust anyone but warp.

Right. Until we see 'new BoC album coming soon' on the WARP website everything is is bollox! I don't care who said what or which domanin they sent an email from! Why should we except anything less than the truth apart from the fact that we all want it so badly?! Heaxagonsun must be laughing his arse off!!

  On 3/6/2010 at 10:30 PM, all_purpose_sandpaper said:

I recognized this warble as sped up human speech. The effect is used much in

cartoons and comedy programs usually for unseen parties on the other ends of

phones, or in this case, a plant on a phone.

I always assumed it was the same stock sound. Interesting if a lot of them are different though.

  On 3/8/2010 at 11:07 PM, Dogboy73 said:

  On 3/6/2010 at 10:03 PM, asymmetrical head said:

i'm with dogboy on this... i won't trust anyone but warp.

Right. Until we see 'new BoC album coming soon' on the WARP website everything is is bollox!

  On 3/9/2010 at 7:42 AM, Fredd-E said:

  On 3/8/2010 at 11:07 PM, Dogboy73 said:

  On 3/6/2010 at 10:03 PM, asymmetrical head said:

i'm with dogboy on this... i won't trust anyone but warp.

Right. Until we see 'new BoC album coming soon' on the WARP website everything is is bollox!

Precisely.

(picture depicts Jesus, mysteriously illustrated as a white dude, holding aloft his hand and pronouncing, 'behold brothers. The new BoC album is upon us'. Looking on in disbelief, ‘Your putting us on’, said one of the disciples. ‘April fools’, did Jesus decree, ‘but I do have a BoC related domain’.)

i think you're taking all this a bit too serioulsy.

  On 3/9/2010 at 8:44 AM, kaini said:

i think you're taking all this a bit too serioulsy.

You think!?!

  On 3/9/2010 at 8:44 AM, kaini said:

i think you're taking all this a bit too serioulsy.

i hope the art is better than tch. but i expect the music to be top notch. prolly less geetar this time. id like to see a return to the dark sinister stuff on geogaddi personally.

  On 3/9/2010 at 10:52 PM, jules said:

i hope the art is better than tch. but i expect the music to be top notch. prolly less geetar this time. id like to see a return to the dark sinister stuff on geogaddi personally.

This. Or something fresh.

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