This old interview made my day.

Distant Nebulus · Post by **Distant Nebulus** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 5:16 pm

I was reading this Chris Clark interview last night and boc comes up briefly in it. I am as big of a Clark fan as I am for BOC and him mentioning them is pretty cool...
http://www.barcodezine.com/Chris%20Clar ... erview.htm

On your Body Riddle album you did live drumming then spliced it up. is this sort of self-sufficiency the direction you believe electronic artists should be heading? Yeah, that certainly still feels fresh to me that album, and what I was really pleased about was that I played the drums myself, then sampled them and produced them to a level that you’d sort of get off break records or whatever. I felt like I didn’t want to just use samples, I wanted to create it all myself, and I think what’s really ironic and weird at the moment is that the most innovative music is the stuff that sounds wrong and out of time. It’s weird that people are using computers and technology to sound not tight, but dysfunctional and a little bit fucked. Turning Dragon is more techno and is kind of on the grid, but with Body Riddle there was a looseness to it, and I think there’s a lot of work to be done with that, but I don’t think it’s strictly through the new technology that’s coming out.

I suppose Boards of Canada are probably recent protagonists of that dysfunctional sound you mentioned? Yeah, I really love their first album, that was sort of a lighthouse album for me.

isawdrones · Post by **isawdrones** » Thu Nov 24, 2011 6:13 am

haha yeah i always wondered what he meant by "lighthouse".

Distant Nebulus · Post by **Distant Nebulus** » Thu Nov 24, 2011 6:16 am

i guess ill take "Lighthouse" as meaning inspiring?? possibly??

isawdrones · Post by **isawdrones** » Thu Nov 24, 2011 6:33 am

maybe mhtrtc is evocative of lighthouses for clark

Twoism-ist · Post by **Twoism-ist** » Thu Nov 24, 2011 7:49 am

isawdrones wrote:maybe mhtrtc is evocative of lighthouses for clark

sample in an eagle in your mind mentions cliffs at sea, and cliffs at sea make me think of lighthouses, so he's not the only one!

mechanismj · Post by **mechanismj** » Thu Nov 24, 2011 9:28 am

I think he means it's a real "standout" or "favorite" of his.

Waterbagel · Post by **Waterbagel** » Fri Nov 25, 2011 2:17 am

maybe.. it just helped lead him into the style he wanted to create?
provided guidance?
an exemplary performance, the likes of which he'd love to recreate?

tontonz · Post by **tontonz** » Tue Nov 29, 2011 11:46 pm

the purpose of a lighthouse is to help lost ships find their way home. the allegory isn't that difficult to comprehend.

mechanismj · Post by **mechanismj** » Wed Nov 30, 2011 12:14 am

I think he meant he converted the album into electricity and powered the lamps in his home so he could read.

Cryabetes · Post by **Cryabetes** » Wed Nov 30, 2011 2:01 pm

No no i'm fairly certain he lived a solitary life inside MHTR2C, a craggy old sailor.