Richard James came up with the idea of controlling a 48 piece string section and a 24 strong choir by remote control, using midi controllers, lots of headphones and some remote visual cues, after being commissioned to write some pieces for the European culture congress in Poland.
There was only one opportunity for a rehearsal to see if the idea worked, it was in the morning, the day of the concert!
This is the result.
A mysterious, previously unknown album by Aphex Twin has recently surfaced on the internet as a free download. A clever PR-stunt? Perhaps, but we're not complaining!
FACT points us to quotes pulled from an interview with style magazine Another Man, in which Richard D. James openly discusses the volume of material he is sitting on.
This seems like the logical conclusion to the ubiquitous iPhone app. At last weekend's L.E.D. festival in London, Aphex Twin projected a mutated video of the crowd and used advanced face mapping technology to randomly substitute in his own evil grin.
Did you know Richard D James once went five weeks without sleep? Clash have nine other interesting/useless facts about the eccentric experimental producer over at their site.
Here's a classic Rock's Backpages interview with Richard D. James, conducted by Simon Reynolds for Melody Maker in 1993 around the release of the On EP and Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2.
OK, so it's just a slightly shaky youtube clip of one of Richard D. James' recent live performances, but it has been, you know, like ten years since his last album proper.
