Autechre - 1 1 is

What this video is

Released in March 2013 on Warp Records, '1 1 is' is the tenth track on Autechre's eleventh studio album Exai, a two-hour double album that critics described as a career-spanning synthesis of the duo's evolving aesthetic. The track arrives at a moment when Autechre had fully abandoned club-music conventions in favor of algorithmically complex, abstract composition. The video — effectively a sustained dark field —…

Why it matters

Autechre are canonical figures in IDM and experimental electronic music, and Exai is widely cited as one of their most ambitious works. The anti-video aesthetic of '1 1 is' exemplifies a strand of post-club electronic culture in which the visual component of a 'music video' is itself subjected to…