11 is 42 minutes of analysis

1 1 is is the first thing I play on the hifi whenever I pull out the Exai CDs. So it's probably one of my most listened and fave Autechre tracks over the past few years.

@djimbe It's one of those gut-wrenchingly sad and beautiful ae tracks.  Definitely way up there in my personal ae favs as well. The progression never fails to amaze me. Sound design is unique and incredible. Masterful track.

I never quite get a lot of these 'composer reacts' videos when they go into electronic music. 

Occasionally there's something interesting in there, like this video of someone listening to Drukqs in front of a piano, and then transcribing some of the melodies and working out they're in Phrygian or whatever.

If the guy above took this approach to Cfern I'd be a bit more interested (not sure what he could do with 11 is to be honest).  As it is there's not a lot he's adding here as he's got no experience listening to this sort of stuff and he doesn't really apply the specialist knowledge he does have. 

Maybe if he listened to the alarm will sound version he could talk a bit more about what the rhythms and melodies are doing.  Instead it's some fairly obvious stuff - no shit the beat skips about and it's a little hard to connect to on first listen. 

Heh he beat me to it, fair play:

  On 8/31/2023 at 2:27 PM, danshoebridge said:

I never quite get these 'reacts' videos.

this guy grabbed many elements, but didnt really get it, especially in the original version, where the melodies are less exposed, even if present exactly as in the AWS version. He has to be careful: if he gives himself a couple more listens, he risks catching it: at that point he wouldn't talk about the fucking "academic approach" anymore, and he would find himself in the rabbit hole, trapped forever, as happened to us  

  On 8/31/2023 at 1:56 PM, BlockUser said:

@djimbe It's one of those gut-wrenchingly sad and beautiful ae tracks.  Definitely way up there in my personal ae favs as well. The progression never fails to amaze me. Sound design is unique and incredible. Masterful track.

I don't find it sad at all. To me, it's a bit stoic, maybe, but very focused and quite badass. If it's from the point of view of a protagonist, it feels like something difficult is getting figured out.

That's quite interesting. It does sound like reaching some incredible breakthrough with all things falling into place, totally agree with that (if that's what you meant). This might have to do a lot with personality / personal experience. I often reach total clarity after a longer crisis or a short meltdown, and suddenly get to work and fix things immediately. But 11 is is definitely a tearjerker for me.

I just wrote teatjerker instead of tearjerker

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