Autechre - Uviol

FLASHING WARNING! And worse, beware. NOT MY MUSIC, but KZbin thankfully handles that detail and lets me pay some visual tribute to one of my favorite bands of all time. It's such a fun way to exercise my skills and this round is seriously no exception. Autechre fans know their catalog gets pretty wild...and so shall the visuals as I pursue my quest through presenting the albums visually, one by one, chronologically (PROBABLY-- I do like the challenge of it from this point).
That said, I admit Confield is really not a favorite here-- but the process and the challenge of adapting it to these sounds has been very fulfilling. I learned so much in the past two weeks alone, I feel like a new person about it. Specifically, Fusion in DaVinci Resolve is amazing fun. Sadly, you can't really use these videos as measure for where I am at with it not, but they represent the path there very well, of course. I also admit I have made some challenging moments in these challenging tunes.
All of these videos were made in the same basic way...I turned each track into stems, meaning bass, vocals, drums, other, instrumental by default with what I use (StemRoller). I then turned each stem into its own video, thinking about how I'd use it in conjunction with each of the others as I went. I used the actual audio to derive a basic waveform visual on the stem level in kdenlive, then took the results into DaVinci Resolve and went to work-- and these were a lot of work, on the whole. Many came together easily, but then took many iterations to call done. 150gb in working files alone, all of which I will delete like they never existed. :D
If you are new to Autechre, especially at the most controversial point in their career, as represented here...I'll give you a clue to understanding what you are hearing: repetition. The basic trick with music like this is that your ears need time to adjust to what is going on, pick out the rhythms, and even have a chance to notice it could be music. Well, maybe not YOU, you, but the newbs, way. It's about riding the moment in sound, not predicting it, as most music insists upon. You have to let it happen. A great way to do this is with the videos...focus on the shifting light, purposefully devoid of overt symbolism, and repeat the track a few times (right-click to loop...), you will get what is going on both visually AND with the sound by the third iteration. By the fourth, you have a real clue. It can take me 11 or 13 times to get an Autechre track, but that's part of the challenge-- when it clicks, it clicks.
All that said...cutting these up into their audio stems has been a BLAST for wrapping my mind around the songs themselves. Oh, what fun I have had hearing the samples laid much more bare than I betcha they predicted ever would be. Technology, yo.
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[@henksmith8611]

Hey man very nice

[@Sfmccallum]

Super hypnotic. 8 minutes just shot by!

[@BrapAllgood]

Thanks, but it's the music that makes those 8 minutes keep walking, the visuals would be so much less without it. Well, I mean, it's audio-based in derivation and I am attempting no puns...but YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN. I was feeling bad recently for watching your posts pop up and already being engaged deeply. Tutorials, editing, tutorials, editing, tutorials, find new plug-ins, learn new plug-ins, tutorials..... I'm honored you find the time to watch mine. Lately I tend to go walk around when rendering, do other things not on this machine. I really need to build a new one. Happy Humpday.

[@BrapAllgood]

Also, something a bit different on deck now. I think you might like it, but you might not know it yet. We'll see. Whole album that I think is even out of print. I want to flex my skills further before I attempt the hardest Autechre stuff, so I figured I'd dig deeper into my collection for some rare gems and see how KZbin treats it. I find myself wondering if you ever have it kick stuff back for copyright? or is it a vastly encompassing thing now and we rarely need to worry about it? I just want to pay homage and build a portfolio while imagining new techniques to try, but would be a shame not to share the fun results.