Autechre Diary Updates

My ongoing Listening Diary of the newly released dozen Autechre live sets from 2023 and 2024 has passed the 2,000 words milestone, with no signs of slowing down, and thus far I’ve still only touched on half the latest AE_2022- recordings. Today I focused on the Melbourne date for the first time, with side trips to Turin, and to Japan, and to William Gibson’s early fiction (speaking of which, Neuromancer turned 40 this year). In the process of keeping this diary, I’ve also been building up a much larger collection of “Other Notes” at the bottom of the post than I had expected to, most recently to share some examples of the software Autechre utilizes (live and in the studio), as well as to strike an accidental contrast between these new sets and one of the ones from the seven that were released in 2023.

It’s at disquiet.com/autechre_live_2024, which is the “human-readable” URL for the diary about this very post-human music.