[Dogboy73]

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.c...m.cfm?id=281584
http://static.boomkat.com/images/312718/112.jpg

This post has been edited by Dogboy73: 05 March 2010 - 12:20 PM

[Dogboy73]

The Owl's Map - BELBURY POLY
http://www.boomkat.c...m.cfm?id=281601
http://static.boomkat.com/images/312743/112.jpg

From An Ancient Star - BELBURY POLY
http://www.boomkat.c...m.cfm?id=281599
http://static.boomkat.com/images/312734/112.jpg

We Are All Pan's People - THE FOCUS GROUP
http://www.boomkat.c...m.cfm?id=281583
http://static.boomkat.com/images/312714/112.jpg

[hexson]

This post has been edited by hexagon son: 05 March 2010 - 12:26 PM

[kaini]

we have a perfectly good ghostbox thread.
ghostbox is great music, but this is the boc subforum.
now stop trolling you twat.

[Rhombix]

kaini, on 05 March 2010 - 03:06 PM, said:

now stop trolling you twat.

[Dogboy73]

kaini, on 05 March 2010 - 03:06 PM, said:

we have a perfectly good ghostbox thread.
ghostbox is great music, but this is the boc subforum.
now stop trolling you twat.

:shrug:

[Spittal]

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.

[Dogboy73]

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!! :boc:

[asymmetrical head]

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

[all_purpose_sandpaper]

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/upl...k?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.

[kaini]

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.

[all_purpose_sandpaper]

kaini, on 06 March 2010 - 03:41 PM, 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.

[kaini]

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

[Dogboy73]

asymmetrical head, on 06 March 2010 - 01:03 PM, 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!!

[Murveman]

all_purpose_sandpaper, on 06 March 2010 - 01:30 PM, 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.