The dimmed screens are part of the reason why most music created in the
last 30 years will disappear to the ages. Technique is something "up the
sleeve", computer-aided, secretive, proprietary. I don't listen to Autechre
anymore because I don't have patience for long-form conceptual noise
anymore.
On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 11:01 AM, kent williams <chaircrusher@gmail.com>
wrote:
quoted 111 lines Caught the Chicago show at the Metro. Sound was great. The stage was dark
> Caught the Chicago show at the Metro. Sound was great. The stage was dark
> and they were hidden behind monitor speakers, so not like a Lady Gaga
> Spectacle. Not much in the way of quiet passages. Lots of savage beats
> that almost turn into grooves. Lots of impossibly complicated filtering on
> atonal lead synth sounds.
>
> I thought Cygnus was ... overly busy. Autechre have actually perfected
> live electronic music, in that they generally have at most 3 components to
> what they're doing, but one component might be kick hits, weird FM noises,
> and vowel filtered sustained tones; they build up rhythm patterns with
> radically different sounds so that each sound plays alone. At most they'll
> add a couple of other sounds -- time stretched screams, granular backwards
> guitar, whatever. But the arrangement is actually sparse; the sounds
> themselves bring the chaos.
>
> What I posted to Facebook during the set:
>
> "Either this is Autechre in Chicago or a black T Shirt convention at the
> Metro. Music is overwhelming. Like crashing a helicopter in a hurricane"
> "People dancing to Autechre do this thing that looks like Orthodox Jewish
> men davening in schul."
> "Autechre: Estonian Speak And Spells arguing with pissed-off Orcs."
> "Autechre: Robot opposums fighting over chicken bones in a dumpster at the
> bottom of a mineshaft."
>
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 10:35 PM Rjyan Kidwell <cexwell@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> did you smoke weed before they played
>> On Sep 30, 2015 11:11 PM, "Alex Kolesnichenko" <support@bytegems.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Laurel Halo was fucking amazing. First half of her show just blew my
>>> mind. Second half was more of a standard 4x4 fare – good, but not great as
>>> the first half.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> FWIW, I feel a bit of let down for the whole “show in the dark” thing
>>> that Ae did, but yeah, the music is what matters… I was with my eyes closed
>>> on pretty much any show I went during the fest, so not a big deal. :)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From:* Chris Bellevie [mailto:c.bellevie@gmail.com]
>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 30, 2015 4:21 PM
>>> *Cc:* idm list <idm@hyperreal.org>
>>> *Subject:* Re: autechre US tour
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This pretty much sums up their show at Decibel. Most I talked to after
>>> were put off by them playing in the dark, but I loved it, just the sound.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> In addition to Cygnus and Rob Hall, we had Laurel Halo play before Ae
>>> came on. That was awesome.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Eric Sorenson <eric@explosive.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, 30 Sep 2015, Chris Taylor wrote:
>>>
>>> Has anyone caught Autechre on their current US tour? Any reports?
>>>
>>>
>>> Yeah, saw 'em here in Portland last week.
>>>
>>> The opener (the impossible-to-google Cygnus) was awesome. Live hardware
>>> set that was electro-rooted with some great development and movement.
>>> http://cygnusat.bandcamp.com/
>>>
>>> Autechre played in the dark. Each with their laptop, screens dimmed down
>>> to almost nothing.
>>>
>>> Nothing I recognized, but I haven't really been able to ID individual
>>> tracks since Quaristice. The sound at Holocene was pretty good but many in
>>> the crowd would not shut up their dumb mouths long enough to hear the quiet
>>> passages. Things would go sort of noodly noisey space and then drop into
>>> incredibly fast and 'hard' beats, full spectrum clattering glitchy things
>>> at 190bpm. Midrange "melodies" like they figured out how to suck sound
>>> backwards through the speakers. Pause. Repeat with a variation on
>>> timbre/tonality or maybe a hint of an acid squiggle done so fast it was
>>> gone before you're sure that's what happened.
>>>
>>> 60 minutes of this and then they unplugged their laptops and slunk off.
>>> Rob Hall did some nice Warp-ish DJ stuff but it was a worknight and I had
>>> to go pretty quickly.
>>>
>>> Was it good? Yeah, it's a treat for the ears. Feels like there is a bit
>>> of disdain, or at least indifference, for the audience and what they're
>>> hoping to get out of a live show, which I don't think is new. I was hoping
>>> for some kind of the 4/4 stuff that surfaced a couple of years back, and I
>>> had to resist the urge to shout out "Basscadet!!" like an idm-dork "Free
>>> bird!!" .. but as always, we get the thing Autechre want to do, not what we
>>> want them to.
>>>
>>>
>>> - Eric Sorenson - N45.569, W122.763 - http://twitter.com/ahpook -
>>>
>>>
>>>
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