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"[[A Música de Dança é Preguiçosa]]" is an interview (in Portuguese) by Nuno Corvacho originally published Sept. 4th, 1998 in the Público Sons magazine, a supplement of the Portuguese daily national newspaper Público,  Number 64, p.04.
 
"[[A Música de Dança é Preguiçosa]]" is an interview (in Portuguese) by Nuno Corvacho originally published Sept. 4th, 1998 in the Público Sons magazine, a supplement of the Portuguese daily national newspaper Público,  Number 64, p.04.
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=== A Música de Dança é Preguiçosa ===
  
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Entrevista com os Boards of Canada
 
Entrevista com os Boards of Canada
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'''Dance Music is Lazy'''
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Interview with Boards of Canada
 
  
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Nuno Corvacho
 
 
 
“Music Has The Right To Children”, the debut album of Scottish duo Boards of Canada, is a delicious mix of electronic fantasy. In this interview, done by fax, the duo give advice to children, discuss the virtues of the analogue age and take a jab on dance culture.
 
Hailing from Edinburgh, Boards of Canada are composed by Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin. They have spent their childhood surrounded by household appliances and records by conventional bands. But early on, they discovered the potential that electronic music provides, formed some bands, and broke up many others, in a series of projects that renewed themselves like seawaves. They have just released their first LP, “Music Has The Right To Children”, a record full of ambiguous, sensual ambient sounds. Sheltered in an almost childlike sensibility, the duo doesn’t take particular interest in the night culture. For them, a good night is spent far away from the nightclubs, somewhere along the peak of a hill around an enormous campfire.
 
 
 
{{question|'''PÚBLICO''' - What is the origin of the strange band name?}}
 
 
{{boc|'''BOC''' - It has its origins from the National Film Board of Canada. When we were very little, we used to watch many films and experimental documentaries made by them, they were a big influence for us. The music in these films were great, for being strange but decent.}}
 
 
 
{{question|'''P.''' - What was your first contact with musical instruments?}}
 
 
{{boc|'''MICHAEL SANDISON''' - When i was around ten years old, i got an old mono cassette recorder and started recording piano pieces with it. I started borrowing instruments from my friends afterwards, things like electric organs. The first time that I played a synthesizer was around 1983, when my music teacher bought a Juno 60. I got addicted to that thing. When he heard some of my home recordings he arranged a way for me to play for a studio. I created a few tracks, this is in 1983, when I was 12 years old, and from there I started forming many bands, all of them different from each other, but always with some electronic instruments.}}
 
 
 
{{question|'''P.''' - What influences do you recognize in your work?}}
 
 
{{boc|'''BOC''' - There are very different influences in our work. The biggest influence has to be in television, the soundtrack from movies and classical music, more so than rock bands. Although some bands have been a big influence on us through the years, like Devo, The Incredible String Band, Julian Cope and My Bloody Valentine.}}
 
 
 
{{question|'''P.''' - Your approach to electronic music shows a childlike sensibility in the way you use smooth sounds and melodies. Do you agree?}}
 
 
{{boc|'''BOC''' - We love melodies, but we have gotten tired of predictable ones. Because of that, the type of noisy music we make sounds childlike or simplistic. We make our music sound old, worn, second-hand. It sounds like the music from unclear memories in the past, all the more so considering that most modern music has good production. We are trying to transmit to others the same feelings that we have for old melodies, that we remember from our past.}}
 
 
 
{{question|'''P.'''- How much does the universe of childhood play in your sound? The voices of children heard in many of your tracks are a way of expressing nostalgia or just a way to amend a lack of vocals?}}
 
 
{{boc|'''BOC''' - It’s not to compensate for a lack of vocals, since we already had many vocalists in the band, but decided to be above all instrumental, which leaves our music much more flexible. The voices of children are there to contrast with the more somber and electronic melodies. It’s sort of a bitter-sweet thing.}}
 
 
 
{{question|'''P.''' - What differences do you notice between a child and an adult, in the way they perceive music?}}
 
 
{{boc|'''BOC''' - Young children are more receptive to smooth, enchanting melodies and heavy rhythms. But there is a phase in adolescents where they start differentiating their musical preferences, and that’s where many sounds and songs are retained in memory. Between adolescence and adulthood, one can listen to any type of music. But as an adult, your taste in music is governed by your childhood experience.}}
 
 
 
{{question|'''P.''' - Do you use lullabies, play things, and similar things?}}
 
 
{{boc|'''BOC''' - In our music? We have used all sorts of things. The children’s voices are usually from recordings we made with kids saying things that kids usually don’t say. We also made them sing and make simple phonetic recordings. If the question refers to musical toys, the answer is yes, we have also used them a lot, since these sounds are familiar to everyone.}}
 
 
 
{{question|'''P.''' - In what way do you use this array of sounds in your shows?}}
 
 
{{boc|'''BOC''' - We’d get old family films with children playing, cut them, play them backwards and so on. It’s a simple thing, but very effective for some tracks we play. In the live shows, we used to put small melodies, similar to music boxes or television jingles in between tracks. We think that keeps the audience preoccupied.}}
 
 
 
{{question|'''P.''' - Is electronic music a means of escape to you, the ideal way to sculpt sounds, or just a means of pleasure?}}
 
 
{{boc|'''BOC''' - What electronic music provides is a greater flexibility to the composers. Most electronic musicians are producing dance music. We see that as laziness, because dance music is really easy to produce. Electronic music doesn’t have to be clean, penetrating and repetitive, it can have an infinite amount of original instruments. We tend to use organic sounds, sounds that don’t seem electronic. This gives the impression of a complete band playing bizarre instruments.}}
 
 
 
{{question|'''P.''' - What do you think about the resurgence of analogue in electronic music?}}
 
 
{{boc|'''BOC''' - Do you mean the resurgence of analogue synthesizers? They have always been used by important musicians, since the digital synthesizers never reach the extremes that analogue synthesizes go to. I mean, digital technology was conceived to overcome certain principles, like potential damage in the frequency range, etc. But the analogue synthesizers can be forced to do things they were not meant to. True creativity exists when you make a piece of equipment do something unorthodox, and analogue equipment is great for breaking the rules. We always use analogue instruments, and by combining it with digital hardware, we ended up with an immense sonic potential.}}
 
 
 
{{question|'''P.''' - Do you work well under pressure, in the environment of dance music, or do you prefer calmer atmospheres?}}
 
 
{{boc|'''BOC''' - We’re not very into the nightclub culture. Sometimes we’re there to do a show, but we don’t choose to spend our free time there. We were raised in rural Scotland and our studio is cozy. We like to be outdoors with friends and create things calmly. Although electronic music sometimes demands that you work aggressively.}}
 
 
 
{{question|'''P.''' - What is your favourite children’s story?}}
 
 
{{boc|'''Michael Sandison''' - “The boy who cried wolf”. It’s important that kids listen to it.}}
 
 
{{boc|'''Marcus Eoin''' - “Hansel and Gretel”. Remember kids, don’t walk with strangers!}}
 
 
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* Mike reveals that the first synthesizer he used was his music teacher's Roland Juno 60 when he was 12 years old.
 
 
 
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