artists mentioned by Boards of Canada in their interviews
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− | + | '''Magic Window''' is is track number 23 on the [[Geogaddi]] album. The song is one minute and forty-six seconds of pure silence. | |
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* Yes, despite persistent rumours to the contrary, it really is absolutely empty. It's easy enough for anyone who disagrees to check by ripping to WAV. And the vinyl version of the track ought to be a giveaway .... The 3xLP vinyl version of [[Geogaddi]] devotes the final side of vinyl to this track. There is no groove on that side, just a basic outline picture of a family: parents and two children. It's a bit similar to the plaque on the Pioneer space probe, an image that appeared briefly on an older version of the [[Boards of Canada|BoC]] website. Where the speed (33rpm or 45rmp) would usually appear, instead we have the cryptic "162.225 MHz". This is a frequency used by the military or coastguard [Robert Frost]. [Ken Stewart] also pointed out that it is a frequency used in the UK for (licensed) private mobile radion services, as listed [http://www.mark.brett.com/specbw.phpl here]. | * Yes, despite persistent rumours to the contrary, it really is absolutely empty. It's easy enough for anyone who disagrees to check by ripping to WAV. And the vinyl version of the track ought to be a giveaway .... The 3xLP vinyl version of [[Geogaddi]] devotes the final side of vinyl to this track. There is no groove on that side, just a basic outline picture of a family: parents and two children. It's a bit similar to the plaque on the Pioneer space probe, an image that appeared briefly on an older version of the [[Boards of Canada|BoC]] website. Where the speed (33rpm or 45rmp) would usually appear, instead we have the cryptic "162.225 MHz". This is a frequency used by the military or coastguard [Robert Frost]. [Ken Stewart] also pointed out that it is a frequency used in the UK for (licensed) private mobile radion services, as listed [http://www.mark.brett.com/specbw.phpl here]. | ||
+ | ** John Cage's 4"33'. | ||
* While "Magic Window" is a completely empty track, that is not to say that the title does not have some hidden significance. You might like to take a look at the entry for the topic "magic window" in this [http://www.lunarsight.com/glossary.php glossary], or search for some combination of "magic window" and the name (Thomas E.) "Bearden". It also brings the play time of the album up to 66'06" (maybe - see next). | * While "Magic Window" is a completely empty track, that is not to say that the title does not have some hidden significance. You might like to take a look at the entry for the topic "magic window" in this [http://www.lunarsight.com/glossary.php glossary], or search for some combination of "magic window" and the name (Thomas E.) "Bearden". It also brings the play time of the album up to 66'06" (maybe - see next). | ||
* As for that question of the total play-length of the album. Since it's been contested, [DC] decided to settle the question once and for all, in detail. Some players show 66'04", some (like mine) show 66'06". Rip all the tracks to WAV. Each track on a CD has a play time equal to a multiple of 1/75th of a second, call this a frame; each track is made of a whole number of frames. | * As for that question of the total play-length of the album. Since it's been contested, [DC] decided to settle the question once and for all, in detail. Some players show 66'04", some (like mine) show 66'06". Rip all the tracks to WAV. Each track on a CD has a play time equal to a multiple of 1/75th of a second, call this a frame; each track is made of a whole number of frames. | ||
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* It is of interest that the [[Music70|music70 website]] lists the track as "magic window fnord". Those familiar with "The Illuminatus! Trilogy" will recognize the reference. [Nick Potter] submitted the following observation: in the novel, "fnord" is a word that people in general have been trained not to see - instead, it merely induces a vague feeling of anxiety in the reader. The [[Music70|music70]] listing may therefore have a slightly deeper meaning than being a simple reference to the novel; it may be a jokey suggestion that the track is indeed present, but that we have simply been programmed not to hear it. | * It is of interest that the [[Music70|music70 website]] lists the track as "magic window fnord". Those familiar with "The Illuminatus! Trilogy" will recognize the reference. [Nick Potter] submitted the following observation: in the novel, "fnord" is a word that people in general have been trained not to see - instead, it merely induces a vague feeling of anxiety in the reader. The [[Music70|music70]] listing may therefore have a slightly deeper meaning than being a simple reference to the novel; it may be a jokey suggestion that the track is indeed present, but that we have simply been programmed not to hear it. | ||
*It is also interesting to note the implications of people searching for signal in an empty track, that there can not, must not be a track without purpose- compare to House of Leaves, pp107-152. | *It is also interesting to note the implications of people searching for signal in an empty track, that there can not, must not be a track without purpose- compare to House of Leaves, pp107-152. | ||
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