Quora: why are so many musicians fascinated by autechre?

  On 12/4/2016 at 5:00 AM, thief said:

 

  On 12/3/2016 at 4:57 AM, Ayya Khema said:

I know many musicians who actually laugh at autechre. Like literally laugh. for a jazzman or guitarist, melodically, autechre is really ordinary

is this a new watmmeme?

no

 

and the fact that nobody has asked if autechre hand their sounds out in secrete is dissapointing

Almost all of the above

  On 12/3/2016 at 4:57 AM, Ayya Khema said:

I know many musicians who actually laugh at autechre. Like literally laugh. for a jazzman or guitarist, melodically, autechre is really ordinary

 

"Fuck jazz too"

My wife (classically trained and professionally active musician) has said that although AE are not 100% her coup of tea and she understands why number of people are put off by their music (too alien, few melodies, too much noise), but she thinks that their talent demands respect. It's not easy and requires loads of imagination to sculpture sounds like this and create music where anything can happen. 

Autechre is most interesting for their rhythms and strange sounds. Aphex and others may be far better melodically but as a trained drummer there are no musical groups I know of who have as much funky, skewed, controlled-chaos in their beats as Autechre. Also, their samples and other primary sounds are so manipulated, distorted, or altered that they sound truly original, unlike almost anything else, and often leave one guessing "how did they make that sound?"

1 page and i'm exhausted

THIS JUST IN: MUSICIANS LIKE MUSIC

  On 12/13/2016 at 5:36 AM, Brandon said:

Aphex and others may be far better melodically

I don't feel that way, IMO tracks like Further, Tilapia, Cichli, see on see, 1 1 is and freulaeux are at least as good melodically as anything I've heard from Aphex.

There's a melody in freuleaux?

  On 12/14/2016 at 12:28 PM, Obel said:

There's a melody in freuleaux?

Yes? 8:59 until the end is pretty much all melody to my ears.

  On 12/3/2016 at 7:46 PM, Squee said:

Hahahaha, this thread... omfg.

 

This

Yeah fair enough.

 

Lovely track.

  On 12/4/2016 at 6:28 PM, IOS said:

 

  On 12/3/2016 at 4:57 AM, Ayya Khema said:

I know many musicians who actually laugh at autechre. Like literally laugh. for a jazzman or guitarist, melodically, autechre is really ordinary

 

"Fuck jazz too"

 

 

First time reading this thread but I have a timely thing to mention. I can't remember if it was a dream or recent vague memory when I was driving, but I heard someone say on the radio "jazz is the only important music America has contributed to the world" or something and I was like 'man fuck that shit, I get jazz is great or whatever but give me rock and roll and it's derivatives any day"

yeah, loads

It took me a little while to realize this but Quora is kind of retarded.

  On 12/19/2016 at 4:16 AM, sweepstakes said:

It took me a little while to realize this but Quora is kind of retarded.

 

I agree completely.  Most of the questions are worthless and many of them are asked as excuses for people to brag about themselves on alternate accounts it seems.  It's so quasi-intellectual

  On 12/19/2016 at 4:19 AM, Zeffolia said:

 

  On 12/19/2016 at 4:16 AM, sweepstakes said:

It took me a little while to realize this but Quora is kind of retarded.

 

I agree completely.  Most of the questions are worthless and many of them are asked as excuses for people to brag about themselves on alternate accounts it seems.  It's so quasi-intellectual

 

Yeah it's like Reddit for the Ted Talk audience. I used to think it was really neat and interesting until I discovered Hacker News and I was like holy shit how could I stand that drivel?

because they is cool and sounds like alien music

  On 12/19/2016 at 8:36 AM, ambermonk said:

because they is cool and sounds like alien music

60% trolled.  but indeed quora is mainly a place for the heavily sedentary, sometimes that means very smart graduate students, sometimes that means tards.  it depends on the question