anonymous wrote:
There is nothing wrong with making music for yourself. That's missing the
point.
There is something wrong with charging me $15 + $7 in ticketbastard fees to
go watch two guys do a bunch of shit i sit here and do with my nord modular
anyway.
Let me elaborate on this.
This recent autechre tour has become the joke of the nord-modular list. For
those who don't know, the Nord Modular is one of many synthesizers available
on the market today. It also happens to be ae's primary synth, if not the
only thing they use on some of their tracks.
One of the many capabilities of the modular, depending on the user's
experience and skill, is that one can actually write chaotic evolving
patches. Most of us know how to do it by now, and we all know Autechre
does.
So this entire week the list has been filled with "autechre concert" patches
from people like me pissed that they paid money to go hear a demo of a
synthesizer...
...and some of them are *dead on*. perfect.
which basically shows that autechre is pulling a big "fuck you" to their
fans. any of us who know how to use the nord can do this crap. it takes a
bit of practice learning the ramp controls and logic functions, but once
you've got it down you can be Instant-Autechre.
This, to me, is not music. It's a patch on a synth. I can sit here at home
and listen to my own versions of it instead of paying $22 to stand in a
dark, hot crowded room and listen to Sean Booth act like he's actually doing
something innovative.
This is "wankery" to me. It's boring. Those of you listening to it
thinking "man, that's crazy...they're switching from 3/4 to 9/15 and
back"...well, no, they aren't. it's a bunch of algorithms on a synth doing
it, and it wouldn't matter if there was someone in front of the synth or
not.
So obviously, I wanted to know why Roxi liked it (do try to read all the
posts before replying next time ;), not "why she lacks the capability of
knowing any better" or however that was twisted. I think a lot of people
like this crap because it's Autechre, and Autechre is cool, so they're
supposed to like it. That's just lame. There are hundreds of bands out
there doing this kind of stuff, only better. Richie Devine writes his own
dsp code for his tracks, for chrissakes...Phoenecia melded miami booty bass
with idm...even some of Jake Mandell's stuff has a weird jazzy feel on top
of the clicks and pops...and, of course, even though RDJ made up all that
junk about making his own custom synths and software, he still did some
amazing stuff with supercollider and has always been a positive innovator in
the electronic music scene.
I just wonder if all the same people would be listening to a cd of this
music if it was some unknown band. I doubt it, but who knows. This isn't
an attack, so please don't read it that way.
"Anything that separates us is junk. Cause when it rains, both the pope and
the prostitute get wet"
-Carlos Santana on racism
:::...\|/unity in diversity\|/..:::
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