Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Modern Dance Theatre Artist Uses Autechre For Soundtrack
Pascal Rioult, a contemporary dance choreographer, has incorporated Autechre's unique blend of electronic music into his new performance, "EXP#1", being performed at the Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre in New York City. From the New York Times article:"Mr. Rioult edges a bit farther out on the limb in “EXP #1,” a premiere that alternates between Bach sonatas and an electronic score by Autechre. Relying heavily on spotlights and blackouts, David Finley’s design creates a series of fragmentary, claustrophobic environments for the dancers’ precise contortions. As the male lead Marcus Jarrell Willis brings a silky intelligence to his elucidation of these hemmed-in movements, suggesting a vital inner struggle. He is an interpreter, and a very human one, whereas too many others in the company seem more modern dancer than human."
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/14/arts/dance/14pasc.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
New Autechre Remix of Unique 3 Track
From Pitchfork Media's site: "The Unique 3 original was a 1989 "bleep" house track by a misnamed (there were originally four of 'em) pack of Sheffield hip-hoppers whose bass made a crater in the local rave scene. Autechre's Sean Booth and Rob Brown, two breakdancing delinquents when "The Theme" originally dropped on their heads, prove that folks still sip syrup in slushy Sheffield on this new remix, pitching everything down until the already puckered low-end begins flanging and distorting into rhinoceros snorts. In fact, by the mid-way point it sounds like they're playing the grainy, muffled vinyl slab they originally lifted from Woolworths as teenagers. The bleeps sway with cotton-mouthed anxiety and the bass is the distant groan of worn and stressed grooves being brutalized by a cheap stylus. Booth and Brown pump the volume on the already eerie "Blue Monday"-on-whippets/poltergeist-choir synthesizers until they're the loudest part of the track, and by the end, "screwed house" seems like simultaneously an idea whose time has come and a potentially terrifying dancefloor mistake once the drugs kick in."You can get the MP3 version of this song from Bleep.com, or order it from Boomkat.
Have a listen here as well:
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