Remote conducting

http://thecreatorsproject.com/blog/aphex-twin-conducts-a-live-orchestra-remotely

Pretty mental stuff.

ouff, insane. I hope he will use this technique in his own live-sets too soon.

Yeah, not really conducting, but I guess there's no other word for this kind of stuff. Cool idea though.

Sounds like a cool concept, too bad the output wasn't half as good.

once again this is a massive prank and he is laughing at all of us

i'm sure he got paid to do this right?

this must have cost …what a half a million to put together maybe more?

he's got hundreds of musicians forced to play with headphones and color coded drone charts to make what is essentially droned out ambient

these are most likely the people who have to play redundant classical repertoire their entire lives.

it sounds like steve roache to me

meanwhile richard is splifing out laughing remotely in a studio …pushing faders

brilliant

did the polish government pay him? governments can be silly with their money.

the concept is eccentrically Stockhausen and an amazing technical feat to pull off

  On 12/12/2011 at 4:03 PM, yikes said:

once again this is a massive prank and he is laughing at all of us

yeah everything richard does is just a massive prank on everybody xxDDDD!!!!!!!! hes just fucking with people :PPPP ITS ALL HE DOES ITS ALL AN ELABORATE PRANK "APHEX TWIN" IS JUST A PRANK ON HUMANKIND HECHKHECHKHECHKHECHK

Right.

Maybe theres a pattern here? Squarepusher is sorta doing a live setup thing albeit on a much smaller scale with Alex Thomas (he said they're both doing the work of like 4-5 people). Maybe there is a sort of push for this sort of thing.

RDJ has brushed classical music in the past anyway.

Does it bother anyone else that you do not actually see the person conducting the musicians?

I think what makes this so strange is the fact, that the conducting part (in the way it is performed) is somewhat insignificant. Of course the arrangement of the chords they played might be unique, but then again a more "human" conductor could make way more subtle changes and also I don't think that Richard - while conducting - could come up with something that is more brilliant than a prearranged piece. So what is left here is a nonetheless very interesting piece of music and an all the more interesting musical idea (as Wall Bird pointed out - absent conducting). What this needs is way more technical features.

the concept is pretty simple (if a little pretentious) but doing it live with a real orchestra must have quite an eerie experience to hear in the flesh from a sonic/textural point if view

and it must be quite good fun to do?

the concept is brilliant and so simple; mixing an orchestra live. Probably any conductor's dream.

richards next project

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_organ

I quite like that Aphex Twin bloke.

Is there a full version of this?