An idea- A fan-made, discovery event "counter-album&quo

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An idea- A fan-made, discovery event "counter-album&quo

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Hi all,

It's late at night (at least in my timezone) when i am writing this, without glasses, on my mobile and after sleeping a few hours... But i think i had to upload my thoughts to the community as soon as i had a chance. Please bear with me for typos and strange logic/grammar constructs.

In the past days i was lucky enough to be part of the new BoC album "treasure hunt" and together with all the brilliant people tried hard to discover the secrets that ultimately led to what we all know (and should have preordered!) by now.

For the records i was more active on the Freenode IRC channel, as that is a format that is more convenient for me for a number of different reasons, but i am aware that a lot of work has been done here in the forum too, so this is why i decided to come out of the lurker's world and register.

Anyway, back to the topic.

In these days, as the solution to the enigma was approaching more and more, i began to think that this moment, this event, should not be lost in time (or the huge labyrinth that the Internet can be).

I think that it actually has to be celebrated in some ways, so that all the fans could have a bigger memory of it...

As an artistic person myself and as a "consumer" of art in all its form, the idea of making something out of this in any form (whether music, text, photos, videos) could be really interesting, hence the thought of a "counter-album".

By talking to some people on the IRC channel, it seems that the interest is shared and already a number of people would be willing to participate.

In simple terms: everyone who wants to participate should create something personal (as i said, all media are welcome) that shall be the personal vision on this quest and be available for everyone to enjoy and peruse in the form of a freely available download.
Whether the creation evoques BoC styles is not that important, as long as it has a connection to the "hunt" itself.
I am as well in the privileged position of investing some money into that, i really would love to have something physical to remark the moment too, like a cd or dvd with the content we would create with a proper booklet and in a special packaging.
I would be ready as well to approach Warp and the brothers to see if they would have as well any interest, at least to have some sort of approval to use the quest material (video and sound clips, etc).

Before you start to think "who's this just registered moron that posts silly ideas on twoism late at night", i'd like to say that if i didn't feel it important i wouldn't have wrote all this text already, especially without glasses :p
i can understand that this could be something not that much interesteing, but i would really like to have some feedback....

Thanks for giving me the chance to express my thoughts :)

Alex
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Post by Metropolis »

I see where you are coming from. Yes it would be nice to have a little token of this whole experience, but then again anyone can create it on their own. And for really cheap, considering everything is freely online.

Now if it were something to where BoC created something like a scrapbook, maybe interactive where when you turned the page in the book that explained how each clue was found and it had the audio to play, how they decided to do this big scavenger hunt and the book was signed then hey take my money NOW. Mostly because of the signature.
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Howdie there :)

Yea this past week has been a great giggle and brought up some interesting stuff.
I'd be interested in contributing something to it providing time allows :) Would be a great way for all to keep in contact and the possibility of a physical release would be great.

This ain't going to be a big post as I am a man of few words lol.....

Catch ya on irc.
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Post by StarblazerUK »

Metropolis wrote:I see where you are coming from. Yes it would be nice to have a little token of this whole experience, but then again anyone can create it on their own. And for really cheap, considering everything is freely online.

Now if it were something to where BoC created something like a scrapbook, maybe interactive where when you turned the page in the book that explained how each clue was found and it had the audio to play, how they decided to do this big scavenger hunt and the book was signed then hey take my money NOW. Mostly because of the signature.
I think what was being suggested was that those involved could contribute some original music/art/poetry or whatever to be included if they were interested. So not a rerelease of the clips n such that are available already.
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Post by alexdsteak »

Exactly, the idea is to have original material contributed by those who feel connected to the event, definitely not just releasing the clips that have contributed to reveal the new album.
And i would like to emphasize the interest on all media, not just music...
Also the thoughts that everyone had would be an important part of this.
I am not of course pushing anyone to do anything if they don't feel up for it, but i think it would be a nice thing to do.

Alex
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