Autechre - prac-f

What this video is

Released in 2013 as track 3 of Autechre's double album Exai — their eleventh studio LP on Warp Records — 'prac-f' exists within a period of the duo's most compositionally ambitious output. Exai was produced largely in Max/MSP and represented a live-performance system prototype. Autechre have long suppressed visual and biographical information as a principled aesthetic stance, making the near-black, zero-motion…

Why it matters

Autechre are among the defining figures of IDM and post-IDM algorithmic music. Exai, released in 2013, marked a new peak in their use of Max/MSP generative systems. 'prac-f' exemplifies their mid-period synthesis of ambient texture and rhythmic complexity. The associated visual — extreme darkness,…