Re: Autechre · Paris

He doesn't mean 'a primitive boom bap beat' in a degratory way guys, rather
as a way of saying fundamental drum skeleton of the electronic music folk
story.

вт, 16 апр. 2024 г., 04:53 kent williams <[email protected]>:

> That sounds really cool.  I hope they release some of the live sets
>
> Is this the concert you saw?
>
> https://youtu.be/DJnCO04GXoQ?si=wIWFZSfOkKeCWZZv
>
> They do a thing live where the skeleton of the beat is a primitive
> boom bap beat, but even the simple beat gets continuously mutated with
> delay and stutter effects.
>
> Some of the things that are going on in their sets aren't hard to
> replicate with modular synth hardware or software.  But Sean and Rob
> have made it their full time job to program and re-program and
> re-re-program perhaps the most  complex Max/MSP patches ever made.
>
> It's their full time job to hack on Max/MSP to try and come up with
> structures that reflect the music they want to hear.  People regard it
> as complex and abstract, but they approach their music with a
> simplicity that's hiding in plain sight.  In their live sets there's
> maybe 3 or 4 parts going: Drums, background weirdness, and drones.  It
> sounds highly detailed because there's layers of random changes that
> are imposed either manually or free-running.  But the way they mix and
> have different sounds interact, there's a unity. It's like Bach suites
> for solo instrument.  There's really a single through line, albeit
> fractally distorted and warped,by hands on manipulation and programmed
> chaos.
>
> A briefer version: They're using the trackpad on their MacBooks for
> all the live input from Rob & Sean. That means no matter how busy and
> apparently complex the sound is, it's mostly the product of two
> fingers controlling one thing at a time.
>
> On Sun, Apr 7, 2024 at 5:41 AM Laurent Knauth <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Although I must be the same age as them, I'd never been to an Autechre
> concert and didn't know what to expect.
> >
> > Despite the lack of show - all the lights were off - I have been
> overwhelmed by the sheer power of this concert.
> >
> > The concert hall was probably equipped for World War III, but everyone
> here knows that Autechre is no avalanches of noise or tunnels of sub-bass.
> >
> > On the contrary, every transient is generously delivered, especially
> when you least expect it, as you're often caught off guard. The "snare
> drums" were in the spotlight, and despite many a techno night, I'd never
> felt such intensity : my muscles were tense and fluid at the same time, and
> sometimes I got liberated giggles. 1h30 of a rhythmic rollercoaster that
> James Brown would not have disowned.
> >
> > I came away with the feeling of having witnessed a masterpiece skilfully
> laid out from start to finish.
> > I'd been following them from a distance since "Confield", which I hadn't
> really appreciated, nor the following albums, but I'm going to dive back
> in. They are their own best evangelists !
> >
> > It was a splendid, ech-straordinary evening.
>