Re: What makes Boards of Canada tick?

The same thing that makes an analog grainy, hue inbalanced, unstaged photograph more engaging than a sharp digital photo

I agree!

I'd say they are both engaging, but for different reasons. A super sharp photo with accurate color is more transparent in some sense. You are seeing "through" to the objects in the photo as clearly as possible. It's less about the medium of photography than it is about showing you the thing in question with the maximum possible information density, accuracy, and clarity. The medium gets out of the way, so to speak. But with something grainier, with less accurate color, with light bleed, and so on, it is more about the medium, the interpretation, and the mood. It is partly about the gauzy veil that is in the way, which makes it feel like a distant memory or a dream. It is more colored.

sure...this is similar to the impressionist methods in modern art...a contrast to the late renaissance attempts at achieving photorealism...the idea is to make the brain fill in what's missing which creates a 3d ness to a 2d piece and gives the sense of movement temporally...I'm wondering if this is part of the obsession with distortion in audio...It always struck me how counter intuitive and irrational it is when compared to the visual...when it comes to visual there is this constant desire for more resolution and accuracy...it was SD to HD, then 420 to 720 to 1080 to 4k and now people are lusting for 8k...but in the same time period people want less resolution for audio?...everyone is lusting after 8 bit and tube and tape and "lofi"

I love synths and effects and all this technology and possibilities they offer, but I don't love a lot of the electronic music out there.... I wish there was more music like this, not the same style exactly, but more moody, dreamy, psychedelic, and so on, and less about dancing, and not so focused on the kick drum. I like rhythms too, but I like them more varied, interesting, and organic, and perhaps more subtle.

there is tons of music like this...its just not electronic...why are you looking to find this in edm then?...curious

Statistics: Posted by bermudagold — Thu Jan 23, 2025 8:07 am

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