01. Gemini (2:56)

rainier · Post by **rainier** » Sat Jul 27, 2013 4:18 pm

Yeah I can hear what sounds like a staticy radio voice but I can't even tell if it's reversed or not. So many sounds in this song. What a beautiful nightmare this song is. I wish I could hear it on really really good studio headphones.

adecentman · Post by **adecentman** » Sun Aug 25, 2013 2:55 pm

Not sure if it's been mentioned already, but I think this might be the first Boards of Canada song to utilize the Locrian mode. It occurs in the section when the first bass note kicks in with that melody atop it playing the diminished fifth, minor second, minor sixth and finally the root which outlines Locrian. Props BoC!

miklatov · Post by **miklatov** » Mon Aug 26, 2013 12:20 am

adecentman wrote:Not sure if it's been mentioned already, but I think this might be the first Boards of Canada song to utilize the Locrian mode. It occurs in the section when the first bass note kicks in with that melody atop it playing the diminished fifth, minor second, minor sixth and finally the root which outlines Locrian. Props BoC!

Locrian mode... I had to google this and I just want to say "Thank you!" for highlighting this to a musical numpty! It makes a lot of sense when it's laid in front of you

egbdf · Post by **egbdf** » Mon Aug 26, 2013 5:46 am

adecentman wrote:Not sure if it's been mentioned already, but I think this might be the first Boards of Canada song to utilize the Locrian mode. It occurs in the section when the first bass note kicks in with that melody atop it playing the diminished fifth, minor second, minor sixth and finally the root which outlines Locrian. Props BoC!

Yes, I also noticed this being one of the most harmonically out-there things they've done.

Though, while it does fit in Locrian like you said, that's not how I was looking at it. I was seeing it more as just "chromatic" and dissonant. Four notes doesn't quite define a mode. Yes, there is no other mode of the major scale that would have those notes, but we don't know whether the third "would have" been minor or major, for example. It's still possible they were thinking Locrian but I'd be inclined to guess that's not how they came about it.

Either way, it's so incredibly dark. I like it a lot and was honestly disappointed not to hear anything else like it in the album. I feel like that could be a really cool new sound for them to explore. Familiar synth territory but with bizarre, cold and dissonant harmony.

arvy · Post by **arvy** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 10:27 am

this track is just huge, absolutely love it and the trio of Gemini - RFTD - White Cyclosa

green calx · Post by **green calx** » Mon Jan 20, 2014 8:32 am

don't know if someone haven't said that
but if you listen carefully in the middle of song you can hear a children's scream coming out from the left channel.

Torn n Frayed · Post by **Torn n Frayed** » Mon Jan 20, 2014 2:29 pm

green calx wrote:don't know if someone haven't said that
but if you listen carefully in the middle of song you can hear a children's scream coming out from the left channel.

Starting at..?

green calx · Post by **green calx** » Mon Jan 20, 2014 8:48 pm

figure it out at your own.

start listening at 1:40. listen carefully till end. you will find it.

it comes after the last one of the radio noises you can hear.

Fireal420 · Post by **Fireal420** » Tue Jan 21, 2014 3:12 am

maybe at about 2:31, you can hear what sound like it could be a child screaming, but i think its more or less the other noise drifting off. most of those noises in the left channel toward the end sound like a drill spinning fast and tightening something into place.

green calx · Post by **green calx** » Tue Jan 21, 2014 3:31 pm

2:29 - 2:30
listen carefully to the radio noise coming out from left channel. don't listen to it at full volume, because the voice will propably melt with song. hope you will find it, cause I'm starting to feel like a weirdo. (hearing voices and stuff, lol). Ah, and if you focus on radio noises for all the song long there's something like "Twenty" (female voice, much more before the scream). smoke may be helpful.

ah, and don't even try if you have no CD and good earphones/headphones. good luck guys

Torn n Frayed · Post by **Torn n Frayed** » Tue Jan 21, 2014 4:45 pm

Hmm really hard to hear! For me the song is like the opening to a musical war between the left and right channels, with each firing off salvos of sound back and forth between each other. I think the same idea is used in Telepath.

green calx · Post by **green calx** » Tue Jan 21, 2014 7:27 pm

for me it's nuclear drop.

did you hear that scream finally?

green calx · Post by **green calx** » Sun Jan 26, 2014 6:22 pm

there's also a female voice hidden in radio noise. dunno what she says. it occurs before the 'big bang', like in two first minutes. hope you can find it and enjoy digging into those tracks as much as I do.

THE BOB · Post by **THE BOB** » Sun Jan 26, 2014 8:06 pm

there is a lot going on in the left channel in the last few seconds. if you get away from the rumble in the right, you can more easily hear a few things. the radio squeals return before a bit of synth like that on oirectine appears around 2:54 followed by a very garbled voice in the last two seconds. it's about as distorted as the one in pete standing alone.

green calx · Post by **green calx** » Sun Jan 26, 2014 9:52 pm

yep, it's very easy to hear that, but on the other hand - completely impossible to understand.

that's their freaky magic ...

randomgon · Post by **randomgon** » Sat Feb 08, 2014 9:14 pm

I took the last 3 seconds or so, eliminated the right channel and centered the left, normalized the signal to bring it up in level, and then eqed out the low end.

without eq:

I still hear (kinda whispered)"We can make it" (com)"Ok" "Roger" "Roger that"
"Ok" might be "Take it"

Mexicola · Post by **Mexicola** » Sat Feb 08, 2014 9:20 pm

randomgon wrote:I took the last 3 seconds or so, eliminated the right channel and center the left, normalized the signal to bring it up in level, and then eqed out the low end.

I still hear "We can make it" (kinda whispered) "Ok" "Roger"

Not a bad call actually, nice work.

The Spaniard · Post by **The Spaniard** » Sun Feb 09, 2014 5:41 am

green calx wrote:2:29 - 2:30
listen carefully to the radio noise coming out from left channel. don't listen to it at full volume, because the voice will propably melt with song. hope you will find it, cause I'm starting to feel like a weirdo. (hearing voices and stuff, lol). Ah, and if you focus on radio noises for all the song long there's something like "Twenty" (female voice, much more before the scream). smoke may be helpful.

ah, and don't even try if you have no CD and good earphones/headphones. good luck guys

Also, the same sound appears at 02:09 - 02:10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp8ZBT-VHrA

Just focus on left channel.

Macfuk · Post by **Macfuk** » Sun Feb 09, 2014 2:46 pm

I watch Baby Einstein videos with my daughter all the time. How much do I love the opening chords of this one!

Torn n Frayed · Post by **Torn n Frayed** » Sun Feb 09, 2014 3:44 pm

Macfuk wrote:I watch Baby Einstein videos with my daughter all the time. How much do I love the opening chords of this one!

Sweet! Thanks for the lol!!

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01. Gemini (2:56)

The opening of Gemini

Re: The opening of Gemini