Autechre - runrepik

Name: Autechre - runrepik
Uploaded: 2013-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Description: Released on 4 March 2013 as track 12 of Autechre's eleventh studio album Exai on Warp Records, runrepik sits within a two-hour double-album that was widely received as a summation of the duo's post-2001 abstract turn. Exai was composed largely in Max/MSP and built from live-jam material intended to test the duo's modular live…

2013 · Post-IDM Maximalist Era (2010–2015) · music video

2013Post-IDM Maximalist Era (2010–2015)Post-IDM / Warp Records algorithmic electronic abstraction

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Released on 4 March 2013 as track 12 of Autechre's eleventh studio album Exai on Warp Records, runrepik sits within a two-hour double-album that was widely received as a summation of the duo's post-2001 abstract turn. Exai was composed largely in Max/MSP and built from live-jam material intended to test the duo's modular live performance system. The album's release was accompanied by two separate ten-hour live…

Why it matters

runrepik is a canonical example of 2010s algorithmic IDM: constructed in Max/MSP with meticulous sequencing, it embodies Autechre's mature practice of treating rhythm and timbre as primary compositional variables rather than melody or song structure. Its visual presentation, reducing the music…

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