quoted 11 lines From: "Lee Billings" <bill0089@tc.umn.edu>
>From: "Lee Billings" <bill0089@tc.umn.edu>
>To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
>Subject: [idm] ae's confield
>Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 19:10:05 -0500
>
> I feel I may have missed the boat with the majority of the discussion
>over Booth and Brown's newest release, but due to the exceedingly harsh
>criticism Autechre has been receiving over their latest effort something
>must be said. I find it inconceivable that individuals who purport to
>enjoy so much of Autechre's backcatalog are failing to find something
>wondrous and touching within Confield.
Inconceivable?? really? it's not that hard to imagine. every musician lays a
stinker, some just more frequently than others. have you heard the lp yet?
quoted 5 lines Are they really listening? Do they even understand what they are listening
>Are they really listening? Do they even understand what they are listening
>to? Since LP5, Autechre's releases have had a tendency to initially "fall
>on deaf ears", so to speak, garnering negative comments and reviews in the
>first weeks/months after release, only to later be collectively embraced as
>groundbreaking music with much to share for those who listen.
well sure! listen to anything long enough and you'll start to make sense out
of it/ think you like it by recognizing where that one click comes in or
that squishy noise turns into that crunchy sound. people like what they're
familiar with. it's like my gearhead friend who can diagnose a car's
problems by that wheezing sound in the muffler. music to his ears i guess
you'd say.
quoted 7 lines The complexity of the music defies easy acquisition of a definite
> The complexity of the music defies easy acquisition of a definite
>initial impression. Even now after years of listening I can pop in almost
>any Autechre release and still occasionally find new sounds and
>relationships between layers that I have never noticed before. The
>subliminal subtleties contained in Autechre's music are where its true
>power lies, and are what most of the recent naysayers are totally
> >overlooking.
A piece of turd is extremely complex too, made from compressed
micro-compounds of waste and dregs expelled from the body's convolution of
intestines ...but at first glace it looks...shitty. you can find beauty in
anything if you look deep enough and have a willing mind. i'm of the belief
that music should return more (positive) energy than is put into the
listening part (if the musician is to be considered artistically competant).
there might be some subtlities i'm overlooking now, but where's the intial
draw?? give me SOMEthing to keep me coming back, and then i'll study it more
closely and hopefully be rewarded with new dimensions of fullfillment.
that's the trick! not some: "here ya go, i just mixed up a ton of clever
noises, see what you find in it and reflect your own thoughts of what it
means to you". i don't generally dig on annoying ink blot tunes, but i can't
say i don't enjoy my fair share of far-fetching ambiguous tunes every now
and again as a novelty.
quoted 9 lines If you don't like Confield after 2-4 initial listens, leave it alone for a
>If you don't like Confield after 2-4 initial listens, leave it alone for a
>while; a few weeks should easily suffice. When you come back to it, I
>guarantee you'll hear more than you did in your previous excursions. To
>immediately judge this album is akin to flipping through a 600 page book in
>5 minutes and afterwards attempting to give a detailed plot synopsis. It
>can't be reliably done. No one has fully absorbed Confield yet in the
>limited time it has been available to our ears. So, save yourself from
>ignorance and spare the list your criticism til you're sure you're hearing
>everything. :)
You're right on this part i think. I still haven't formed a solid opinion of
the work myself. but so far i'm only impressed by the nerve on the part of
the 2 gentlemen who put this together as a public release. that took some
BALLS! Then again, i know myself well enough that if i don't like a tune
after the 3rd-7th time around, generaly i never will. i've only heard it
twice and some a few more and still don't care for it over all, but i'm
taking my time with it and not going to force myself to like it just because
it's "AUTECHRE, MAN!" So, for now i'll give the record a 'bad acid trip
experience' tick. "make it stooooop". maybe in the next 100 years it'll be
praised to high heaven? we'll see!
ok i'm done now.
:O|
e.
ps- or just maybe this really is a contumacious act aimed on this list, as I
remember the boys getting really steamed when thier last record was slagged
on this list! LOL
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