RE: [microsound] confield

[eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

>I'm more intrigued by something in Kim's comment -- is it something that
>only somebody with a pretty intimate grasp of the software (in this case, I
>guess Kyma) would pick up on?

The evidence is the same with different explanations. Cyclic and
algorithmic music like this can be compared at a distance to classic
ambient. Sure, the toes tap as the rhythmic patterns congeal with my
attention like it did with "Vision of Pulse", but the model seems to be
that of a waterfall to be left well in the background. Clipped cycles of
instrumentation, string-padding as compositional envelope. There's not as
much hook 'n boogie for fans to latch onto as there has been in past
Autechre, but perhaps that's the point: have you seen their fans?
Knowledge of the technique requires contortions to avoid reducing the
music to just that. I have as hard a time believing that they'd release a
Kyma demo disk as I do with believing that they'd be able to avoid having
the Kyma dominate everything they do during their honeymoon with it. Could
they be living Brian Eno's systems-music dream?

-eric