Allize Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 Does anyone here appreciate his music? I tried several times at different stages of my life and never succeeded. It always feels cold and humorless. How am I supposed to enjoy it? I can't get any emotion out of it. It is a sincere question because he obviously puts a lot of work and care on his music and Id like to be able to understand what he has in mind when he does it. What releases do you recommend? Any tips to get it to his sound or is it a love it or hate it thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bitroast Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 I really like the Risp album. and the tracks scattered around the schematic compilations alongside the phoenecia (and others) tracks^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewps Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 asect:dsect listen to that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 Does anyone here appreciate his music? I tried several times at different stages of my life and never succeeded. Same here, great skillful sounddesigner (I think dude gets send every bit of harware & software to make presets for), but from what I've heard in the past, musically it doesn't move me. Will try again. I react similar to Autechre's output. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghsotword Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 I once heard Richard Devine's music played by a DJ through a big soundsystem at an outdoors festival at ~4AM and it sounded really good in this setting, much better than listening to the same stuff at home through headphones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
logakght Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 I love him. He's a true sound designer and I love how passionate he is about it. His music is like a fusion between Autechre and Venetian Snares. Also he always recommends cool VSTs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allize Posted September 28, 2014 Author Share Posted September 28, 2014 Does anyone here appreciate his music? I tried several times at different stages of my life and never succeeded. Same here, great skillful sounddesigner (I think dude gets send every bit of harware & software to make presets for), but from what I've heard in the past, musically it doesn't move me. Will try again. I react similar to Autechre's output. Yeah I never really got into autechre either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloud capture Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 His first self titled ep and a couple old tracks on schematic comps are full of emotion and beautiful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amen Lare Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 Sometimes i get more emotion out of radio signals than your archetypical minor key ballad. Basic emotions are deeply-rooted in musical language and controllable and not everybody is interested in them. Then there are emotions that, for example, doesn't have words for them, not "sadness", not "anger" etc. Some state of curiousity, uncertainty. Cold rational music just doesn't sound like what Devine does, it has human scale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tricone RC Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 I only have Cautella. Some of the later tracks on there have some half-decent pads and chord progressions, and the first track is rather haunting at times. I prefer stuff that has mad beatz and an emotional story to tell. I don't think he can really offer an emotional rollercoaster but he certainly excels in the former category, and some of his tracks do offer both Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Member Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 I think it's pretty good stuff. I'm also a toaster. Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allize Posted September 29, 2014 Author Share Posted September 29, 2014 Well, I'm listening to his track "Murman" on Wémè recordings and it's is a really good ambient piece....He can obviously do emotionally charged stuff, it must be me that can't understand the rest of his work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronchuseven Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 I once heard Richard Devine's music played by a DJ through a big soundsystem at an outdoors festival at ~4AM and it sounded really good in this setting, much better than listening to the same stuff at home through headphones I love to DJ with his tracks because they are cold & sterile.. you can layer his stuff with melodic tracks and they won't clash. I used Klockner in my last mix (from minutes 27 to 31) and I'm really happy with how it blends with Under BOAC: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhylumZunami Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 to put it lightly; i would marry Dr. Devine Phd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prdctvsm Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 his music is awsm, imo - esp. sigstop 12" ep. but then, liek many diff forms of music, & particularly dem harder tropes/genres, iFind iRly hav 2 b in a certain frame of mind/mood 2 proply immerse self in its complexity 4 max enjoymentalism. iAslo find it is exciting 2 mix RD tunes as they tend 2 spawn flavoursome symbiotic elements when in sync w. another's track. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrfaux Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 i've always liked his less abrasive stuff like Timach...Randale his studio makes me angry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juiceciuj Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 dick is a super cool dude. anthracite t vari is amazin'. think he was like 19 when he wrote that 13 minute epic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Milkweg Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 He's got some really cool stuff on his Vimeo too. There's a couple of tracks on there i like more than anything I've heard of an actual release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misc Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 Dug up this thread cause he's been posting a load of modular tracks/patches on youtube over the past week. It's especially cool because he's written out fairly detailed explanations of how he's set the modular system up in the description of each video. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxYWDq2dh286jKDThKRAbUA/videos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragnar Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 riichard devine A+ student just kidding the second youtube is pretty good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcbpete Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 his studio makes me angryCompletely hypocritical given my continual plugin-buying-syndrome, but he needs to buy less things and do more stuff ! I want to know what happened to Shapeshifter, also on Schematic, who did like uber-intense-Devine-glitch-outs-in-space He only did this one album: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juiceciuj Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 his studio makes me angryCompletely hypocritical given my continual plugin-buying-syndrome, but he needs to buy less things and do more stuff ! i'm pretty sure a lot of the stuff is given to him and he does these free promo videos (hard to imaginer him being really taken with the akai timbre wolf). i think he probably spends most of his time doing loads of sound design stuff you never hear about. either synth presets or commercial work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcbpete Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 i think he probably spends most of his time doing loads of sound design stuff you never hear about. either synth presets or commercial workActually you're dead right, and ironically loads of the plugins I've bought recently that I totally don't need but think they'll magically make me make music again have had lots of Devine created presets ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcofribas Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 i think he probably spends most of his time doing loads of sound design stuff you never hear about. either synth presets or commercial workActually you're dead right, and ironically loads of the plugins I've bought recently that I totally don't need but think they'll magically make me make music again have had lots of Devine created presets ! Yeah he's kind of hard to evaluate for this reason. His records are always interesting particularly for his sound design but in order to truly assess his contribution to electronic music one would really have to include his commercial and plugin stuff. I imagine he also just does consulting in terms of providing feedback and insights into developing products, yeah? My view is that even though I'm not super into his records I'm always interested in checking out what he does and I think his overall contributions to electronic music are probably more considerable then I realize. He definitely knows what he's doing and has kept it real where a lot of people might have taken the money and gone soft and arrogant. Respect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YangYing Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 A lot of amazing modular patches by him posted on Facebook... Man, modular synthesis scares me a little, I really want to get into it but at the same time I don't have the money and I don't want to spend all my time just patching around and never making music... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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