From langham Sent Thu, Jul 30th 1998, 18:57
From langham Sent Thu, Jul 30th 1998, 18:57
Oh please. I don't know where to begin here. Most music, and particularly that of Autechre, it is supposed to be an experience--you listen, feel, sense--you're not supposed to sit and pick it apart and analyze, etc. Music like this isn't meant to be picked apart the way you would a work of literature--you're supposed to be absorbed in the experience of the sound, the "sound of the sound" as RDJ said. Come on dude, this is an album, not "The Brothers Karamazov." Now, perhaps to a humorous effect, are some out-of-context snippets.
>Booth/Brown are...an orbit of attraction and bifurcation.
>...aural chiasma...
>The Animal is born into the world...until senescence reclaims the animal into the noise of the abyss...
>...the beat system collapses under its own weight.
>The concept of extra lives in a video game suggests the supra-individual perspective of the Player...
>Broken machines living in an orbit of quiet desperation...
>A robot arm lying in a dark factory suddenly awakens...
>...edifices are feeding and sharing their own unique and curious form of nourishment.
>East information collides with West information...
>The conceptual evolution of Autechre from examining the artists' internal relationship to the minimally-expressed systems and machines around Booth/Brown and their affiliation with this framework...
This conclusion just baffles me. It's the kind of stuff my English teachers have always called "fluff"--but then again, having not been to college, I haven't yet learned how to write "intelligently."
Thank you for your time.
--Geoff