A friend of mine (a rocket scientist) relates to Autechre on a mathematical
level, Autechre does sound like really fucking complex maths after all...
He'd never heard Autechre live before (we were at John Peels Meltdown at
the South Bank a couple of years ago), it blew his mind like complex
calculations going on in his head... that's braindance for you...
At 02:57 07/02/00 -0500, you wrote:
quoted 52 lines i was going to actually mention the exact same track.there are actually three
>i was going to actually mention the exact same track.there are actually three
>rhythmic layers happening at once at one point.
>Ae also do a similar technique on the first track of chiastic slide.
>i think its a very cool way to shift tempos without doing the obvious double
>time/half time thing.
>i actually brought in that gescom remix of PBO into a graduate composition
>class that im in and my teacher (and the students) really dug the track.
>we actually notated some of the rhythms on the board at the points where the
>tempos shift thru the common rhythm of the triplets.
>it was funny, we were studying autechre/gescom in a graduate comp. seminar.
>pretty cool. i turned on this one very straght classical composer to ep7 and
>big loada.
>he bought them and the next day he came up to me and was asking if i could
>suggest anything else for him to buy.
>just thought id share that story.
>
>idm reaches academia. now thats real idm for you. :)
>
>later,
>greg davis
>autumn records
>http://autumnrecords.cjb.net
>
>np: toru takemitsu-works for guitar
>
>
>> My favorite example of this is the Gescom remix of PBO, especially where it
>> shifts midway from 168BPM to 126BPM, first by emphasizing quarter note
>> tripets, then by shifting the feel of the triplets into fours, then finally
>> by adding accents on the 4-downbeats. Those of you who remember the Hekla
>> mix CD know this is the track he used to shift from tempo A (jungle/hip
>> hop) to tempo b (techno). Tricky shit, no doubt... -Våt
>>
>> NP - Cex "Am I Soundboy" (brilliant, brilliant stuff...)
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