Aphex Twin – review

Barbican, LondonA remote-controlled baby grand piano, suspended like the fob watch of some giant hypnotist, swings in the gloom. Richard D James, crouched under a bank of digital equipment, performs unseen midi manipulations, and the piano-pendulum responds with mutating variations on a melody that hangs over the muffled creaking of this hallucinatory metronome. The effect is one of remarkable grace and beauty.An early version of James's "remote control orchestra" premiered last September in Pol...

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