https://bocpages.org/w/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Chorus7&feedformat=atombocpages - the unofficial Boards of Canada fan wiki - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T13:16:52ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.28.0https://bocpages.org/w/index.php?title=White_Cyclosa&diff=15131White Cyclosa2019-03-25T23:56:40Z<p>Chorus7: /* Comments */</p>
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| runtime=3:13<br />
| appearson=[[Tomorrow's Harvest|Tomorrow's Harvest]]}} <br />
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== Comments ==<br />
* "[[White Cyclosa]]" is highly reminiscent of, and possibly a homage to, music from the film Day of the Dead (1985). Suggested comparison - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwHQltabnxU the opening sequence of "The Dead Suite" on the soundtrack album, credited to John Harrison.]<br />
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* There seems to be a direct connection with White Cyclosa and the ending of the 1982 animated film [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Plague_Dogs_(film) The Plague Dogs] - as if Boards of Canada wrote the track as an alternative score for this segment of the film. This is most apparent as the helicopter in pursuit of the two dogs flies directly overhead (synchronising flawlessly with the helicopter sample in the track's intro). The finding is illustrated below in a YouTube video uploaded by [https://www.youtube.com/user/KensDreaming KensDreaming].<br />
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*Stargate SG1 episode called Beneath the surface (September 2000) https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5vhp9e 11.46 mark the music is identical to White Cyclosa at the 00.38sec mark<br />
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== Samples / Lyrics ==<br />
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*The sound of a large helicopter's blades whirring plays throughout most of the track.<br />
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== Trivia ==<br />
*Cyclosa is a species of spider that spins its silk into life-size decoys of itself to aid in hunting prey.<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8135000/8135844.stm</ref><br />
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{{stub}}</div>Chorus7https://bocpages.org/w/index.php?title=Telephasic_Workshop_(song)&diff=6088Telephasic Workshop (song)2008-11-08T20:07:22Z<p>Chorus7: </p>
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| runtime=6:35<br />
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==Samples/Lyrics==<br />
* The voices that are all chopped up during the song are saying ''"now this is very irresponsible"'' there is also a Scottish accent saying ''"yer no gonnae"'' which translated means ''"you are not going to..."'' [Steven Harran]<br />
* A slightly slowed-down male voice saying "bordering Canada" (?) is heard at 4:39 and 5:17.<br />
* At 4:27, 4:37, 4:47, 5:01, and 5:11, a young man can be heard shouting "twenty cent" (?) in the left channel.<br />
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== Comments ==<br />
* Perhaps a reference to telophase, a part of cell division; the idea of a biological "workshop" [DC]. <br />
* Perhaps also a reference to the [http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/C/htmlC/childrenste/childrenste.htm Children's Television Workshop], who make [[Sesame Street]] (which [[Boards of Canada|BoC]] have sampled).<br />
* Telephasic: Tele: Of the mind, phasic: synchronized. This might be the meaning behind [[Telephasic Workshop]]; a meditative environment in which two or more individuals attempt to share a telepathic vision or idea. [Skytree]<br />
* [Ken Stewart] - a possible reference (which seems more plausible than either of the above) to the [[wikipedia:BBC_Radiophonic_Workshop|BBC's Radiophonic Workshop]], where interesting music and sound effects were produced for various TV programmes like Dr Who. It is located at Maida Vale where, incidentally, [[Boards of Canada|BoC]] recorded their [[Peel Session]]. <br />
** As Ken suggests, the "radio-" part of "radiophonic" becomes "tele-" (from "television", as opposed to radio; also sounds like "telly"); while "-phonic" becomes "-phasic". In greek, "tele" means "from afar", "at a distance", and "phonic" means "relating to, or having the nature of sound, especially speech sounds" (Greek "φωνη", meaning "sound", properly, "sound of the voice"), while "phasic" means "relating to the production of speech" (from Greek verb φημι, "to speak"). So "telephasic" is "speaking at a distance", but the word is also a kind of analogue, in its construction, to the word "radiophonic" (→"telly-phasic"). <br />
*This might also reference Blue Oyster Cults "Workshop of the Telescopes" ( also known as B.O.C )<br />
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