"Here we are. Let us say Yes to our presence together in Chaos." - John Cage

mp3: Autechre - Acroyear

This is one of my favorite songs ever. The track starts off with a skittering, untrackable beat with only a threadbare melody to guide us through. It's chaotic and schizoid, but that melody somehow is just enough to tie things together. Somewhere in the madness is a logic, even if buried. Another melodic theme arises, as thin as the first. They bob and weave through the chaos, as it gets more intense, then, as it crystallizes into something recognizable. A mess becomes a pattern. The themes have led us. Nirvana?

1/30 Addendum: I think I was being a bit of a coward with this description. What I was getting at and didn't come out and say is that the way these songs are constructed, it's as if Autechre are presenting a life philosophy (without lyrics, nonetheless). Life is messy and fucking chaotic and there's shit flying everywhere, and is there really any constant in your life other than yourself (the melody - the human aspect in a world or song that seems inhuman) except the melody and you are also changing, so what does that leave us with except the recognition that there's beauty in change, in people, in melody, in rhythm (that never stopping propulsion that allows us to see change), in chaos, in pattern.