Seeing them in Boston Sunday. Will report back with strong opinions
post-show.
(Autechre, not One Direction)
Also seeing Kraftwerk at the wang Saturday. That'll be...interesting.
There's not nearly enough bodyslamming at live sets.
On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 9:53 AM Chang Terhune <crt@crtdot.com> wrote:
quoted 163 lines My wife and daughter were watching the SHowtime special when I came in for
> My wife and daughter were watching the SHowtime special when I came in for
> dinner last night. I hid in the bathroom until it was all over.
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> - Chang Terhune
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> "I don't think a great book has yet been written on computer." - JG Ballard
>
> Writer, Yogi, Musician.
> Not necessarily in that order
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> http://twitter.com/bigbadchang
> crt@crtdot.com
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> On Oct 2, 2015, at 6:24 AM, Mark DelLima wrote:
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> LOL. By all accounts they put on a good live show...
> On Oct 1, 2015 19:09, "Chang Terhune" <crt@crtdot.com> wrote:
>
>> So you're a One Direction fan now?
>>
>> - Chang Terhune
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> "I don't think a great book has yet been written on computer." - JG
>> Ballard
>>
>> Writer, Yogi, Musician.
>> Not necessarily in that order
>> http://www.changterhune.com
>> http://twitter.com/bigbadchang
>> crt@crtdot.com
>>
>>
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>>
>> On Oct 1, 2015, at 2:21 PM, Mark DelLima wrote:
>>
>> 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:
>>
>>> 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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