For follow musicians/drummers/beat makers who are wondering : BPM : 100 A cycle is 5 bars long A bar is 7 beats long ( 7/4 ) You can hear 2 cycles in the intro, the 2nd starts at 0:21. There are 9 cycles in all the track. You can hear the last cycle at 2:48. And the key is a fucking ridiculously simple A minor. Melody : E1, E2, A0, C2, G1, E2, D1, A1, F2, F1, E2, E1, D2, B1, E2, D1, F1, E2, A1 then D2. I hope this will be useful for someone.
This makes my whole body tingle and get goosebumps, feels like listening to the inner workings of the universe, like a battle between order and the chaotic entropy of reality.
I cannot describe this. It feels like a punch to the face by everything that exists but telling me it is gonna be okay. You will understand when the times right
This is the first song i heard from these guys and it still blows me away. I guess its because less is more in the music industry. Im done with lyrics. I believe that so much can be conveyed with the absence of words. Like one of my favorite writers once said, 'words, they only complicate the task'
The people in this comment section are so snobbish it's ridiculous. Just because one guy doesn't like the song doesn't make them dumb, stupid, or suggests they "don't get it." Good song btw ; )
@@aubolessi jonas neubauer, a beloved tetris player that just passed away. the only connection to this video is that he had it in a short playlist of songs on his yt profile.
I think you'll be surprised just how many artists have actually been influenced by Autechre. It's like how John Cage was doing unusual things in his time, and he didn't really care what others thought. Yet thanks to his little sound sketches he opened new areas in music and other musicians took influence from that. And that's how I feel about Autechre. Alot of their songs I feel are more like 'sketches' of great ideas. Obviously everyone interprets things different but that's how I view it.
My very capability to describe this with language falls short. The words cacophony, ensemble or anything I think of can not touch this music. Beyond masterful and extremely touching. Watching this video and discovering this makes me feel more human.
This is a perfect video for this track, I have watched it hundreds of times over the years. Brilliant stuff. Every time I watch it, there is a certain moment where the shapes form my sisters face! 😀
I see where Thom Yorke took many sounds and ideas, cause he confesses that Autechre is one of their influences. // Ya veo de donde sacó muchos sonidos e ideas Thom Yorke. Él se confiesa que Autechre es una de sus influencias.
As I was listening to this two years ago, aproximately, I remember going "What the shit? What just happened?". Now I'm nodding my head to this, just chilling out. It's weird how you develop musically (both as a listener and an artist) in such a short matter of time. Great stuff this. I also like the fact that this has over a million views.
Dropp reminds me of standing in the parking lot of the horrible job I worked at when I first heard this EP, taking a break to watch the full moon. Like that moon then, it reminds me that this too shall pass.
This track is so abstract. Its that feeling when uts late at night. Ur body is tired and ur om the verge of falling asleep but u cant. All u can do is toss and turn and ur just getting tired of being tired. But ur too comfortable in bed.
I got addicted to listening music like Autechre almost 13 years ago now... Helped me through alot of harsh times always makes me feel very chill in a special way like if my body and brain sighs... Please respect Autechre for they are one of the best !!!
I've watched this video a number of times over the past year or so and am continually mesmerized by it. The visual elements are a great representation of what the song sounds like and how it plays out.
Really? Everything I've heard by VS has reminded me of Aphex Twin far more than ae. I'm pretty sure Vs has counted Afx on his influences numerous times. I'm guessing Chrome Box is very different from the rest of his output then?
If you want to hear the closest thing to sounding like them both then listen to the track 'elephant gear', both ae and VS shared files for that track. From what I remember Autechre provided the sounds and VS sequenced it. So even though that track is using mostly Autechre sound sources it still sounds nothing like ae, it sounds like a VS track to me and his signature is still all over it. They're just too different to one another imo, and the more you listen to their discographies the more obvious it becomes. Honestly I would say Autechre are closer to BoC than they are to VS. Obviously that's a big stretch to compare them to BoC, but that's the point, but I would still say they're closer to them than they are to VS..(i.e. comparing BoC back in the Skam days with Autechre's old output and some of their Gescom material etc. Both are very ambient orientated and heavily hip-hop influenced..similar melancholy vibes in tracks, similar gritty sampler signatures, similar gear tones back then with roland analog synths, samplers etc). In the end it's all subjective though so whatever lol. :-)
drukQs yeah, Huge Chrome is an extremely significant venetian snares album. probably his most elaborate and enigmatic. Sounds absolutely nothing like any other album he has put out.
major props for this. this is up there with the gantz graf video in terms of expressing what an autechre song is "saying" where words completely fail. bravo.
Add "&fmt=18" (without the quotes) to the end of this video and it increases both the audio and video quality. This video is a fusion of science and art - simply brilliant.
Pushing the boundaries of what you do as a musician is probably the most satisfying thing possible. And that in itself demands respect. I can understand why people won't / don't like Autechre, but for me personally they're sort of have this mentality similar to my own. An appreciation of electronic gear and pushing it further, that is actually very addictive. Anyways you're always going to need artists like this, where other musicians can draw influence from.
a few years ago, i listened to this wanting to like it, but not knowing how to approach it. ive left my days of listening to electronic music and gone back to indie, post rock, post hardcore, emo, and the likes. although, i held onto a few treasures from the electronic music world. a few autechre song titles popped in my head and i came back here. now i see it. this is truly compositionaly fantastic. only negativity i can give is that the compression doesnt seem tight enough on the percussion.
That's exactly what this music is. It's abstract. This was released in 1999 aswell so putting that into perspective this is an impressive song. This EP sits perfectly in Autechre's lifecycle too, as their earlier albums were more ambient techno and each album got more progressively experimental. There comes a point when making music that you end up getting 'bored' so progression is the next logical step, and these boys actually weren't afraid to do it.
i would say sit back and listen to tri-repetae and untilted all the way through. autechre takes a good amount of patience to listen to, but it's almost always worth it. very worth it:)
I agree. There are patterns out there that can defy observation. In my opinion, those can make some of the most unique and complex melodies known. And you are certainly right about art: it is in the eye of the beholder :)
You have to approach this recording in a different way from the recordings of today. Firstly, this was recorded in 1999 or maybe much earlier. This was way before the prevalence of Digital plugins and even Digital Audio Workstations. We can assume that this was recorded in a 'mostly' hardware focused environment. There is a chance that certain effects due to cost and limitations, if any at all, were only applied to a handful of channels. That may be the reason why certain elements lack clarity
@@KashmirPL i can imagine the solo instrument here being like an abstract painting session, other than colours or sensations you cant'really recognise or formalize the voice of what you are listening
@ballersack well rdj said he developed and wrote his own software in an interview. i assumed AE do something simelar. also Max/Msp, machine drums ect is will only be selection of equipment that they use. in any case, i dont think that anybody who isnt really involved can do anything other than speculate anyway so i dont really know.
but one big point was to give people the chance to step beond their automatic interpretational system to let them see shape, form, rythm and pure colour "as it is" that done, now being able to "compose" with form rythm texture and colour is a great emancipation and explosion of possibilities from the boundaries of object related paintings and as with musicians that play "abstract" notes (and dont copy e.g. the sound of a bird) i can for myself decide if i like the feel of such painting or not
People must understand that not everyone can comprehend this stuff. If it was mainstream there would be absolutely no fun to looking around for tracks and knowing truly complex music
To counterpoint 'sweepstakes' first comment. The primary use of black and white give a more pronounced identy to the colors and more attention can be paid to what being done with those few colors. That context mirrors the feel that parallels Autechres usual forte in sound. The offset of with the singular 'odd' color I think represents the humanistic aspect of the forms. I would call it hyper minimalism. Cold and with no regrets but not totally unlike humans. I like it.
@chaayse I would disagree. Is a pencil art? Or a lump of clay a sculpture? Music is art, and sound is the medium with which it is created. Audible noise is just noise if it does not have form or context. You don't have to like music, or the noises which make it up: that's your opinion. Just because I don't like certain types of music doesn't mean I deny it its right to be called music.
@r0tt1ng 1080p/720p/360p/etc descibes the picture quality and no the audio. You can have a video at 240p and still have great audio quality, while it is also possible to have a 1080p video with terrible audio.
You're wrong, the beginning of a cycle is not marked by the more pronounced kick drum, but with the fisrt note of the synth. I counted with the melody, and only with it, before I realized that "drums" (others sounds than the synth in the intro) began with the first time of a cycle. I don't claim your analysis is wrong because I didn't care about the drums part, it may be shifted with the synth part and not follow 7/4. But listen to the synth, not the drums, you'll see that my count is not false
i've done very basic animations like this using photoshop and a lot of 3dsmax scripting. mine are nowhere near as good, but i can understand how the effects are generated. is this a cunningham clip?
@r0tt1ng Add &fmt=18 to the end of the address bar. This sets any youtube video to play the original audio upload, rather than the downsampled version for better streaming at 360p.
