artists mentioned by Boards of Canada in their interviews
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− | * Telepathy is the supposed communication of thoughts or ideas by means other than the known senses. It was a major field of research for scientists during the early 20th century and into the Cold War. <ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telepathy</ref> Upton Sinclair also conducted telepathy experiments in the ' | + | * Telepathy is the supposed communication of thoughts or ideas by means other than the known senses. It was a major field of research for scientists during the early 20th century and into the Cold War. <ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telepathy</ref> Upton Sinclair also conducted telepathy experiments in the 30's.<ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=ZQEmLUlDXz0C</ref> |
* The audio distortions on the vocals of this track may have been modeled after the reported auditory distortions present in Microwave auditory effect <ref>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_auditory_effect</ref>, which was a facet of telepathy research during the Cold War. This auditory phenomenon was used to transmit sounds directly from a microwave emitter into the human brain. Researchers described that the auditory distortions inherent to this process caused "the sounds [to resemble] those emitted by persons with an artificial voice box." <ref> D.R. Justesen. "Microwaves and Behavior", Am Psychologist, 392(Mar): 391–401, 1975.</ref> | * The audio distortions on the vocals of this track may have been modeled after the reported auditory distortions present in Microwave auditory effect <ref>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_auditory_effect</ref>, which was a facet of telepathy research during the Cold War. This auditory phenomenon was used to transmit sounds directly from a microwave emitter into the human brain. Researchers described that the auditory distortions inherent to this process caused "the sounds [to resemble] those emitted by persons with an artificial voice box." <ref> D.R. Justesen. "Microwaves and Behavior", Am Psychologist, 392(Mar): 391–401, 1975.</ref> | ||
− | *When played | + | *When played backwards, the voice counting in the track can be heard to say "This is (is) the end of the Earth.. for now." |
− | * Narratively, in sticking with the theme of cycles on the album, this | + | * Narratively, in sticking with the theme of cycles on the album, this tracks follows the evolution or mutation of a new civilisation on Earth following the thawing of the planet from an artificial nuclear ice age ([[White Cyclosa]], who also fail (or [[Collapse]]) due to an ice-age, as presented in [[Cold Earth]], the next track on the album. This implies cycles operating at multiple scales, that of the death-rebirth cycle of civilisations, and perhaps that of individual humans as in some other religious or spiritual beliefs, of cyclical weather patterns, and of the civilisation itself, who were born out of, and died from an ice age. |
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