On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Sim David <pmxds@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
quoted 12 lines Autechre have a great following, they're the one who should be pushing> > Autechre have a great following, they're the one who should be pushing
> the envelope. I'd sure be ready to pay more
> > than 18 bucks a ticket if they had a better show.
> >
> > If they continue like that, nobody will go see their next shows cause
> we've all seen it 5 years ago...
>
> Surely the point is that if the music's good enough you don't need visuals
> to keep it exciting. Noone goes to see the Berlin Phil play some Mahler and
> then complains that they should get past their 'sitting on stage playing
> their instruments' live show because it's exactly the same as it was when
> they played Beethoven last year.
you get to watch the musicians play their instrument. i'd like to see
autechre do something similar; instead they play in the dark.
their music is good. their live performance is not something i enjoy.
cheap visuals...hell, even decent visuals are a dime a dozen and they're
mostly played out. one of the finest live shows i've ever seen
was kid606 at the drunken unicorn years ago with 2 laptops & a mixer. he
was right on the front of the stage, just him, and fucking going at it.
the visceral experience added to the music. there were no visuals, just
performer, instrument, and audience.
i appreciate what autechre's doing, their music is what speaks, not them.
however, it's not an experience i like to enjoy live with 600 others quietly
musing.
quoted 22 lines The deal with Autechre is that you go to the shows to listen and maybe> The deal with Autechre is that you go to the shows to listen and maybe
> dance, not to watch. If the music isn't interesting you then it might not be
> the show for you.
>
> Lots of good dubstep nights are done in near complete darkness, too, fwiw.
> I read a great quote from one of Digital Mystikz to the effect that they'd
> been to too many clubs where they'd spent loads of money on decoration and
> visuals and then put in a limp soundsystem almost as an afterthought, which
> seemed to be precisely the wrong way round to do it. So they just wanted a
> plain, dark room with a monster system in it. Works for me.
>
> d.
>
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