Yes, this is the concert and I hope to buy a pristine souvenir someday !
Thanks for the link, which gives an idea of the power of the Trianon
soundsystem, as those controlled and measured drums sounded like
the Transformers fighting to the death just in front of you, it was
really huge.
I was worried that my wife would be bored by some GRM-like brain fiddlings
but, as you point out, thanks to this permanent "boom bap" thing, in the
middle of a rhythmic massacre, she told me "this is actually pop !" - to
which I replied "yes, that's what they say themselves" (I read that from
them in an interview a long time ago).
Your description sounds as if you were there too !
On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 3:53 AM kent williams <chaircrusher@gmail.com>
wrote:
quoted 59 lines That sounds really cool. I hope they release some of the live sets
> That sounds really cool. I hope they release some of the live sets
>
> Is this the concert you saw?
>
> https://youtu.be/DJnCO04GXoQ?si=wIWFZSfOkKeCWZZv
>
> They do a thing live where the skeleton of the beat is a primitive
> boom bap beat, but even the simple beat gets continuously mutated with
> delay and stutter effects.
>
> Some of the things that are going on in their sets aren't hard to
> replicate with modular synth hardware or software. But Sean and Rob
> have made it their full time job to program and re-program and
> re-re-program perhaps the most complex Max/MSP patches ever made.
>
> It's their full time job to hack on Max/MSP to try and come up with
> structures that reflect the music they want to hear. People regard it
> as complex and abstract, but they approach their music with a
> simplicity that's hiding in plain sight. In their live sets there's
> maybe 3 or 4 parts going: Drums, background weirdness, and drones. It
> sounds highly detailed because there's layers of random changes that
> are imposed either manually or free-running. But the way they mix and
> have different sounds interact, there's a unity. It's like Bach suites
> for solo instrument. There's really a single through line, albeit
> fractally distorted and warped,by hands on manipulation and programmed
> chaos.
>
> A briefer version: They're using the trackpad on their MacBooks for
> all the live input from Rob & Sean. That means no matter how busy and
> apparently complex the sound is, it's mostly the product of two
> fingers controlling one thing at a time.
>
> On Sun, Apr 7, 2024 at 5:41 AM Laurent Knauth <laurent.knauth@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Although I must be the same age as them, I'd never been to an Autechre
> concert and didn't know what to expect.
> >
> > Despite the lack of show - all the lights were off - I have been
> overwhelmed by the sheer power of this concert.
> >
> > The concert hall was probably equipped for World War III, but everyone
> here knows that Autechre is no avalanches of noise or tunnels of sub-bass.
> >
> > On the contrary, every transient is generously delivered, especially
> when you least expect it, as you're often caught off guard. The "snare
> drums" were in the spotlight, and despite many a techno night, I'd never
> felt such intensity : my muscles were tense and fluid at the same time, and
> sometimes I got liberated giggles. 1h30 of a rhythmic rollercoaster that
> James Brown would not have disowned.
> >
> > I came away with the feeling of having witnessed a masterpiece skilfully
> laid out from start to finish.
> > I'd been following them from a distance since "Confield", which I hadn't
> really appreciated, nor the following albums, but I'm going to dive back
> in. They are their own best evangelists !
> >
> > It was a splendid, ech-straordinary evening.
>