LOL. By all accounts they put on a good live show...
On Oct 1, 2015 19:09, "Chang Terhune" <crt@crtdot.com> wrote:
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> So you're a One Direction fan now?
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> On Oct 1, 2015, at 2:21 PM, Mark DelLima wrote:
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> 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.
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> On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 11:01 AM, kent williams <chaircrusher@gmail.com>
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>> 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:
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>> "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."
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>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 10:35 PM Rjyan Kidwell <cexwell@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> did you smoke weed before they played
>>> On Sep 30, 2015 11:11 PM, "Alex Kolesnichenko" <support@bytegems.com>
>>> wrote:
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> 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. :)
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>>>> Thanks.
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>>>> *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
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> In addition to Cygnus and Rob Hall, we had Laurel Halo play before Ae
>>>> came on. That was awesome.
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>>>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Eric Sorenson <eric@explosive.net>
>>>> wrote:
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>>>> On Wed, 30 Sep 2015, Chris Taylor wrote:
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>>>> Has anyone caught Autechre on their current US tour? Any reports?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, saw 'em here in Portland last week.
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>>>> 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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