{"id":275,"date":"2001-05-17T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2001-05-17T18:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dreness.com\/blog\/?p=275"},"modified":"2019-12-07T17:10:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T00:10:20","slug":"a-journal-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/archives\/275","title":{"rendered":"a journal update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saw Autechre<\/a> last night at the showbox. I’ve been listening to some of their older stuff for quite some time, but only recently have I been exposed to some of the newer recordings. It seemed to me as though they’re taking quite the atonal and disjointed path, but it’s tricky…<\/p>\n

I’ve noticed a trend that I like very much in some electronica these days, and that is to get away repetitive downbeats; to mix it up quite a bit. Not breakbeat, per se, cause that’s almost as predictable as everything else. It’s more like little offsets that are inserted before a beat… maybe just a sixteenth note in duration; sometimes triplets. So you get these offsets cranking in such a way that you maybe only actually land on a downbeat once every 4 (5, 7?) measures. Then on top of that these little offsets are scattered throughout the length of your rhythm, perhaps in predictable locations but with always changing values.<\/p>\n

This kind of music isn’t immediately easy to listen to. Last night I found myself having to work quite a bit to figure out what they were doing, where the emphasis was, and where the rhythmic undulations were going. As a result, once I finally did fall into a grove (which it seemed that most people didn’t ever find, judging from the number of bodies moving and shaking), I appreciated it that much more.<\/p>\n

Oh, and they both had g4 laptops<\/a>, and the apple logo was really bright :)<\/p>\n

In other news, I’m basically settled at my new \/ temporary digs… I’m quite happy with it, actually… Behold:
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