It couldn't happen now - BoC retrospectives, headful of L

dc74 · Post by **dc74** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 1:53 am

luckily, i think enough people choose to ignore the internet as being "real". i won't go as far as to say it is evil, but it is, at least, silly. i would never form an opinion of something i saw or heard online. i am no luddite, however, every tool has it's limitations. luckily, plenty of bands, like boards of canada, will continue to make the music that they love to make and will ignore the new "mainstream" media, like the internet. however, you aren't going to hear that music on the internet, either.

__ = Zenfinity = __ · Post by **__ = Zenfinity = __** » Fri Nov 25, 2011 1:06 pm

d3v3l · Post by **d3v3l** » Mon Nov 28, 2011 9:35 pm

I was born in 81, I get some of the nostalgia from thier music - then again I have memories from when I was in diapers ripping out potted plants and smearing the soil around on the carpet. My parent's were half hippies half yuppies and there was plenty of stuff and tv shows I remember watching and being around that bring back certain feelings and memories evoked from BoC Music. It just depends on who you are.

Jonse · Post by **Jonse** » Tue Nov 29, 2011 12:54 am

isawdrones wrote:Yeah thats an interesting question really. What is the new technological medium doing to music? In terms of how we acquire, create, and subjectively enjoy it. Did artists like autechre, aphex twin, boc etcetera exist in this intermediary point between 20th century music and whatever technological paradigm we are facing now in the 21'st? Were they in the right place at the right time, ..situated in this little sweet spot that allowed the creation of new motifs and ideas etcetera? Electronic music seems increasingly disposable. Everybody's past time.

People have the technology on their macs or pcs to generate something like "Geogaddi" or "85-92" but it doesn't get it done. And its more complex than the old "Hardware vs. Software" debate. The consolidation into the computer format has done something to electronic music for sure. What exactly that is we are just now getting a hint of.

From what I gather, it's not a proponent really very much at all. Someone with actual ambition will create the exceptional albums, with limited technology or with sophisticated technology, and at the same time, the typical person will make an uninspired, uninteresting album with either setup.

Technology is important and it has greatly raised the bar in sound quality and diversity, but it won't power the music architecturally. You need musicians to do that.

metamorphosis · Post by **metamorphosis** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 12:37 am

isawdrones wrote:People have the technology on their macs or pcs to generate something like "Geogaddi" or "85-92" but it doesn't get it done. And its more complex than the old "Hardware vs. Software" debate. The consolidation into the computer format has done something to electronic music for sure. What exactly that is we are just now getting a hint of.

I believe it's more about the music-making -process- that differentiates hardwarevssoftware approaches nowadays, not the sound. This is something that comes up in BoC interviews a bit.
Things like being forced to commit to ideas rather than make endless revisions, not being able to go back & edit, having to do it right first time round - all things which influence the end result.

Having said that, it's not easy to emulate scratchy old tapes buried in a container in the ground for a week. Tricky stuff.