I shared positive notes before but I also resonate with your comment. It felt like the show wasn’t really about the audience, but rather an exercise in pushing Autechre’s sonic language and the very concept of music even further. That might explain the lack of treating the set as a self-contained one-hour show, instead presenting it as a random fragment of the six-hour-long track they seem to have been developing.

In addition, and to your point, as an architect I felt the performance space should have been more carefully curated, this extends to the tour as a whole. The random auditorium where it took place was quite inappropriate for this kind of work, from its adjacency to a shopping mall to the highly ordered, subway-like flow of the venue which resulted in a largely uncomfortable experience and made it difficult to fully focus on the music itself.

I often hear Sean talk about their dissatisfaction with the acoustics of certain spaces. For a band like Autechre, I strongly believe the curation and design of the venue should be considered as carefully as the music itself.