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Aphex Twin uses Ableton Live! (shh, is a secret)

Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 7:23 pm
by Capitan Mission
Well, maybe you know that some electronic musicians are very secretive about their equipment, and Richard D. James, aka Aphex Twin is the king of "secretiveness" . But I was watching a new video of him playing an avant garde piece and he is using Live!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dph-bkJL_wM

It was in 2011, he was remotely conducting a orchestra via computers : )

Re: Aphex Twin uses Ableton Live! (shh, is a secret)

Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 7:36 pm
by k-toh
Different 8)

Re: Aphex Twin uses Ableton Live! (shh, is a secret)

Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 8:45 pm
by pskept
this is wild and wonderful but i think his tool of choice is irrelevant as he could use a broken toaster to make better music than most.

Re: Aphex Twin uses Ableton Live! (shh, is a secret)

Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 9:12 pm
by k-toh
I don't think that makes it any less relevant, just shows us what can be acheived with our chosen tool :)

Re: Aphex Twin uses Ableton Live! (shh, is a secret)

Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 9:35 pm
by LoopStationZebra
I have obsolutely no fucking clue how this is all set up.... Are the musicians merely looking at the screen in place of a conductor for cues? wtf? lol.

Cool shit, though.

:x

Re: Aphex Twin uses Ableton Live! (shh, is a secret)

Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 9:38 pm
by Capitan Mission
pskept wrote:this is wild and wonderful but i think his tool of choice is irrelevant as he could use a broken toaster to make better music than most.
Yes, absolutely, I love Aphex Twin, dont matter if he uses Live!, Logic, Hardware sequencer or a pocket calculator, but I find it cool that he uses the same tool that I use.

Re: Aphex Twin uses Ableton Live! (shh, is a secret)

Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 9:41 pm
by stringtapper
LoopStationZebra wrote:I have obsolutely no fucking clue how this is all set up.... Are the musicians merely playing their parts on autopilot without the need of a conductor like most ensembles? wtf? lol.
I wondered the same.

Re: Aphex Twin uses Ableton Live! (shh, is a secret)

Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 11:11 pm
by Homebelly
LoopStationZebra wrote:I have obsolutely no fucking clue how this is all set up.... Are the musicians merely looking at the screen in place of a conductor for cues? wtf? lol.

Cool shit, though.

:x
I believe he is using a customized version of angry birds.

Re: Aphex Twin uses Ableton Live! (shh, is a secret)

Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 11:17 pm
by LoopStationZebra
stringtapper wrote:
LoopStationZebra wrote:I have obsolutely no fucking clue how this is all set up.... Are the musicians merely playing their parts on autopilot without the need of a conductor like most ensembles? wtf? lol.
I wondered the same.

I see what you did there. :lol: :x

Re: Aphex Twin uses Ableton Live! (shh, is a secret)

Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 11:18 pm
by LoopStationZebra
Homebelly wrote:
LoopStationZebra wrote:I have obsolutely no fucking clue how this is all set up.... Are the musicians merely looking at the screen in place of a conductor for cues? wtf? lol.

Cool shit, though.

:x
I believe he is using a customized version of angry birds.

:lol:

Re: Aphex Twin uses Ableton Live! (shh, is a secret)

Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 2:38 pm
by pskept
Capitan Mission wrote:Yes, absolutely, I love Aphex Twin, dont matter if he uses Live!, Logic, Hardware sequencer or a pocket calculator, but I find it cool that he uses the same tool that I use.
k-toh wrote:I don't think that makes it any less relevant, just shows us what can be acheived with our chosen tool :)
so true!

Re: Aphex Twin uses Ableton Live! (shh, is a secret)

Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 3:13 pm
by ikeaboy
stringtapper wrote:
LoopStationZebra wrote:I have obsolutely no fucking clue how this is all set up.... Are the musicians merely playing their parts on autopilot without the need of a conductor like most ensembles? wtf? lol.
I wondered the same.
I imagine his changes to sequences are instantly output to the musicians screen as score. I love aphex twin to the extent of being unable to talk to him when I met him once :oops: I wasn't mad about this experiment sound-wise but I like the possibilities it suggests.

Re: Aphex Twin uses Ableton Live! (shh, is a secret)

Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 4:06 pm
by pskept
ikeaboy wrote:I love aphex twin to the extent of being unable to talk to him when I met him once :oops:
at demf i've stood beside more techno gods than i can count and maintained composure just fine but (embarrassingly) rdj is the only person who would have me feeling starstruck and shy when meeting.
ikeaboy wrote:If you think a little too much about electronic music
i do.
ikeaboy wrote:maybe take a read of my blog
i did and i enjoyed it! i'll keep reading.

Re: Aphex Twin uses Ableton Live! (shh, is a secret)

Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 7:01 pm
by ikeaboy
pskept wrote:
ikeaboy wrote:I love aphex twin to the extent of being unable to talk to him when I met him once :oops:
at demf i've stood beside more techno gods than i can count and maintained composure just fine but (embarrassingly) rdj is the only person who would have me feeling starstruck and shy when meeting.
ikeaboy wrote:If you think a little too much about electronic music
i do.
ikeaboy wrote:maybe take a read of my blog
i did and i enjoyed it! i'll keep reading.
I've always been crap at meeting people who's music I really love. I met Radioactiveman loads of times, he even had me over for a gig, and i still acted like a plonker every time out of some weird 'compensate for the fact you think he's deadly by being a bit of a prick' style shite.

Thanks for having a look at the blog, please keep reading I'm putting some new posts soon and I'll get the RSS thing sorted as soon as I figure out how its done.

Re: Aphex Twin uses Ableton Live! (shh, is a secret)

Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 11:47 pm
by Capitan Mission
ikeaboy wrote: I've always been crap at meeting people who's music I really love. I met Radioactiveman loads of times, he even had me over for a gig, and i still acted like a plonker every time out of some weird 'compensate for the fact you think he's deadly by being a bit of a prick' style shite.

Thanks for having a look at the blog, please keep reading I'm putting some new posts soon and I'll get the RSS thing sorted as soon as I figure out how its done.
I've acted very "normal" the times I met people that I admire, I have more problems with standar people : )
BUT, if I find Richard D. James or Bob Dylan I dunno, that's in another level.
I've been reading your blog also, good work!