Autechre Rant about Confield

  rocky path said:

was just listening to VI scose Poise with my little sister & she says to me

 

"its sounds like a fart"

 

"a really strained fart, like when you're constipated."

"VI Scose Poise" vs. a strained fart sound (courtesy of Free Sound):

Spectrograph for a ~0.3 second sample of "VI Scose Poise", toward the beginning, when it's just the rhythm:

Now for the ~0.3 second fart:

And, just to be thorough with this important psychoacoustic endeavor, FFT analyses:

Ae:

gas:

Now, it's up to all of you out there to decide...

that first picture is basically exactly what I see when listening to the first track off Confield. Amazing.

I was sick a few days back and I forgot to listen to Confield. Disappointed. Will listen to it later. Maybe I'll even do it on vinyl.

I guess you listen to Confield on a regular basis, Rook. Am I right? ;P

I had a friend over today, and put on Confield. He likes autechre, I've given him Chiastic Slide and Quaristice, but all he knew about Confield was from me, and what I told him was "It will make your brain melt." So with only that detail in mind, I put on the album, but didn't tell him what it was. On VI Scose Poise he said "what is this odd noise?" but not in a way like this sucks but like this is odd noise. Halfway through Cfern, he laughs and says "Oh, this is Confield."

Truely it makes your brain melt. Did a review of this album for music appreciation, it's such an amazingly visual album that the review basically wrote itself and I got a 50/50, yay Autechre. :alien:

Listened to this last night with a strong bout of nausea. To increase nausea, I turned on the laptop super hot and placed it on the bed for intensification. Turned my headphones up as loud as they went. Seriously amazing hallucinations during Cfern. Its still got it.

first time i heard confield i had to sit three hours in a car waiting on wells fargo to arrive at an atm machine i was working on... i was sick, heavily medicated on benadryl, and it was raining nonstop. i listened to that cd three times in a row... man, it's never just sounded the same after that (though i still heart it)

What I appreciate the most about autechre in general is they manage to evoke strong emotions, but still have truly original compositions.

Some others musicians abstract stuff sounds like noise without evoking anything, but they blend the musicality of it all so well with the originality and abstractions that most electronic music fans love.

Confield is really accessible once you know it.

:heart: confield :heart:

definately some of the cleverist rhythms on this album.

Pen expers is my fav

First three tracks are buildup. Sim Gishel is a nice break before the imminent madness of the next three tracks. Once you make it through that insanity, Uviol lulls you into a false sense of security, and then you get slapped in the face by Lentic Catachresis. All in all, a pretty fucking excellent album, no question.

Confield, I think, was a very advanced release for them. It was a turn to a far more abstract style, after Radiohead's release of the song Idioteque. The album is not my favorite, but it was important to the development of their music. I like how some of the songs feel when they're played on speakers. :on2long:

it is work of genius.

  Blyz Castl said:

Confield, I think, was a very advanced release for them. It was a turn to a far more abstract style, after Radiohead's release of the song Idioteque. The album is not my favorite, but it was important to the development of their music. I like how some of the songs feel when they're played on speakers. :on2long:

wow, that might well be the weirdest impression of confield i have ever read.

The first time I heard Confield, I was heavily into their early works and I just could not seperate all the noises in Confield. I eventually figured it all out and definitely appreciated the album but didn't really listen to it much. Then I gave it another listen about a week ago and now I finally understand why this album is so widely acclaimed as their finest. I love the melodies mixed with the abstract beats and I love the overall dark feel of the album. The Confield sound has actually become the latest inspiration for my own music production. Yo I will say though normal people think I'm retarded when I listen to it. They just don't get it.

  jaderpansen said:

  Blyz Castl said:

Confield, I think, was a very advanced release for them. It was a turn to a far more abstract style, after Radiohead's release of the song Idioteque. The album is not my favorite, but it was important to the development of their music. I like how some of the songs feel when they're played on speakers. :on2long:

 

wow, that might well be the weirdest impression of confield i have ever read.

Thank you

I like the feeling of beats rumbling your body when the speaker/bass is up real loud. If you do that with some music, and your positioned in the right way, you can get a slight sexual arousal from the music itself. It happened to me once with "Open Up" by Leftfield. :stuart:

What Autechre did was show that you can have melody, rhythm and timbre controlled all at the same time and still keep it interesting. On Confield is shows the most. That's why it's the pinnacle of modern music in this century.

  Polymershapes said:

Confield.

 

When you listen to music, is there a direction to it? Is it left to right? I don't know about most music...maybe most is just staying still. Well, this album is like moving slowly forward, tied to a rail like in one of those shoot'em'up space ship videogames, each track a new Boss fight: Patterns that never quite repeat , new elements whizzing around, unfolding progressively through different stages of decay as the boss is destroyed. Physically, listening to it with headphones, it feels like moving forward in space. Things might fall from the sky above you and crash down: these are called 'drums' in other musics. Other things bounce around on the ground from right to left. Colored, textured walls suddenly rise up on the left side of the 'stage set', looking more like force fields of energy than a real walls. It's the most attention grabbing, visually stimulating album I've ever heard, provided I give it my full attention.

<old quote but I just found this thread>

Yes I have experienced this album like this. Very scarily similarly infact. Brilliant. Also for me a total rush of euphoria and concentration. I suspect this is something that can happen with any involved, spacious, interesting music. Pretty much the brain shutting down normal thought processes and concentrating 100% interpreting music as colours, shapes and objects in 3 dimensions. The shame about it is the harder you try to experience music as a peak experience the less likely it is to happen (for me).

Have also done this with SAW2 and Tri Rep (since you asked about other albums). And it is pretty much the most fun I have had listening to music. <even better than sexx0rs to music lolz>

/rant

In my opinion, Confield has their best sound design, ever. In fact, it's got some of the best sound design in any electronic album I've ever heard (not that I know much about sound design, I'm just going by my ears. :-p)

Confield is beautifully terrifying. Best Ae ever.

For me, Bine is an intense listening experience.

I think I really got into Cfern after more than 1.5 year of listening, finally!

  Enter a new display name said:

I think I really got into Cfern after more than 1.5 year of listening, finally!

wow, then you must have heard that track over 40.000 times

Pen expers is one of my favourite tracks ever.

  Pirtek said:

Pen expers is one of my favourite tracks ever.

confield is great and robbie martin is great

*appause*