Autumn Ether
uses self-looping to record layers of guitars in an improvisational way, creating sonic landscapes made of calm and tension that can grow in hypnotic patterns or suddenly collapse.
The electric guitars are in turn melodic, aquatic, airy, detailed, textured, abstract or experimental and these qualities are brought out by every strategy available including alternative tunings and unusual methods of play.
The use of self-sampling allows them to multiply and to exist in several dimensions at the same time turning the music into a quantum experience.
This results in a hybrid music with fluctuating contours, characterized by a refusal to acknowledge musical boundaries and an ongoing drive towards discovery.
By confronting the repetition of sound loops with the elements of chance and risks of error inherent in improvisation, creates soundscapes which embody the permanent friction between internal balance and external chaos, and provide the soundtrack for an imaginary road movie.
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
I hope to play live soon in the North of France (but would love to play everywhere), I'm still working on it.
Your musical influences
Sonic Youth / Nine Inch Nails / Einstürzende Neubauten / Innocent X / Nosfell / Mono / hint / Sigur Ros / Tom Waits / Björk / Sloy / Mùm / The Ex / dEUS (w. original members) / Amon Tobin / Joseph Arthur / The Velvet Underground / Ghinzu / Sloy / Richie Hawtin
What equipment do you use?
Jazzmasters, iBook and pedals that make noise
