This is a video back from '94 of Autechre performing live in Moscow. How did they, or any other electronic collectives, perform their music live without laptops as sources of all the sounds and samples? What does all of the knob turning do? They can't just be eq'ing, because it is Autechre, not some lame dj's.

there are hardware sequencers. knowing autechre they probably have a lot of home built cool shit as well...

So they turn certain knobs and that produces certain sounds or what?

I'd imagine that they have certain sequences programmed in beforehand and then modify the sounds / order of sequences on the fly.

Probably the same way Orbital played live. That video looks much like any video of Orbital playing (sans the head-lamps, natch). You'll have to look them up for the technical details, but basically they have some things programmed in which they sequence on the fly, and I believe they play some other stuff themselves. On the "Live At Glastonbury" album, they start playing the bassline to Doctor ? but in the wrong synth, and have to start again.

There are two main legit ways of playing live in electronic music. The "Orbital way" is also used by The Chemical Brothers and a few other acts. The other way is to get a full band together and play analogue with instruments. Faithless, Way Out West, The Prodigy and Chicane use this method, among others.

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Hasn't WOW done kind of a live PA thing before with just Jody, Nick, and Tricia?



Never seen them live, so I don't know for sure - but I think Myra mentioned seeing them doing something along those lines at Vision in Chicago years back.

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I've heard on here from people who've seen them they use live instruments. According to this interview they "...performed live with their bass guitarist, drummer and vocalists. Nick and Jody were each using M-Audio Oxygen 8 keyboards hooked up to PowerBooks to trigger and tweak their samples live in front of 2000 fans packing out the joint."

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Originally posted by ibizzzaaa This is a video back from '94 of Autechre performing live in Moscow. How did they, or any other electronic collectives, perform their music live without laptops as sources of all the sounds and samples? What does all of the knob turning do? They can't just be eq'ing, because it is Autechre, not some lame dj's.

i bet they use a hardware sequencer, a couple of synths and a sampler/groovebox.

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Originally posted by ibizzzaaa This is a video back from '94 of Autechre performing live in Moscow. How did they, or any other electronic collectives, perform their music live without laptops as sources of all the sounds and samples? What does all of the knob turning do? They can't just be eq'ing, because it is Autechre, not some lame dj's.

Before laptops, mp3s and wav samples, people used this.

ever heard of samplers, sequencers, drum machines, and such ?q

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Originally posted by julien2 ever heard of samplers, sequencers, drum machines, and such ?q

NO

It's more of the question of how all of the hardware produce all of those particular sounds and samples.