Sean Ae
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alice in wonderland yeah, nutritious bugs, yum yeah march of the money men, linear block 5, mouth muse, skinny ribbed fu__er, rotation, yashica, outer heaven no how would i know for sure? but yeah, i think so only weird anon buildings i can't figure out, there are loads round here these prawns i had once in this japanese/italian fusion place in tokyo. i got no idea how he did it but he was using soy, tomato and garlic with some other weird as fuck flavours i couldn't identify. the chef was super secretive, just kept laughing at me for asking. rob, but i don't drive. if i did it would prob be me yeah once i say next to ken russell but he never told me who he was, i only realised later. he just said he made films. we watched speed together, he kept pointing out shit bits, he was pretty funny. if there was some way to allow kids to study things they were actually interested in that would be cool can't rem. i think mick chose it well they def exist, they have negative effects if you stick your finger in a plug socket i got some wild mushrooms i need to eat so I'm gonna have them in a bit, dunno what with yet, maybe an egg u asked me that already god that word ambient is such a loaded term (thanks brian) - i'm gonna say phaedra
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ok i gotta crash i'm fading back tomorrow
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it sounds like it looks, like piles of rubbish fighting each other in the case of tac lacora it was mostly like that as it went down in realtime, but yeah there was a ton of bus compression happening apart from that it's mostly in the envelopes So you really manually adjust every single bit of the track by envelopes? That surely needs a lot of patience (or motivation). yeah but not editing by hand, changing according to conditions So you mean like AMP envelopes (or gates etc) in MAX or a DAW - not volume envelopes per each track (?) yeah usually people are asking us about transients and it will just be a really radical amp envelope yeah - if we had time to properly get into it i reckon it could be really good does seem like it would be tricky but then i never made a game with things that actually move around
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funny, coincidence err here's one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeler–Feynman_absorber_theory
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yeah pretty much every little detail on Alien is amazing might just be context but we used to really fetishise it all oh and THX 1138 and star wars, i mean i don't wanna be boring but ben burtt was seriously a big figure to us as kids the making of empire strikes back where he's hitting the cable to get laser sounds made a huge impression on me
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yeah tbh it's prob the result of listening to old hip hop radio tapes while tripping you get all that extra texture, and the whole track being fucked, i dunno we're just really into it
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That's what some people have said about Fol3 to be fair :) haha shit man you're right oh well
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o rly didn't know he did that, cheers for that
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it sounds like it looks, like piles of rubbish fighting each other in the case of tac lacora it was mostly like that as it went down in realtime, but yeah there was a ton of bus compression happening apart from that it's mostly in the envelopes So you really manually adjust every single bit of the track by envelopes? That surely needs a lot of patience (or motivation). yeah but not editing by hand, changing according to conditions
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my mum likes amber i guess that's predictable though
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i think badalamenti does it really well but it's maybe not as overt
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prawn cocktail 70s style make sure you use too much of that pink sauce
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i always liked that kuato mind meld sequence from total recall, really nice most things surripere was two tracks originally, the second half was done before the first but the first half wasn't done to go with the second, they were just the same tempo and it occurred to us once we had both bits that we could put them together draft feels skeletal to me, kind of hollow but deep as well like a ruined city in the distant future
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in the case of tac lacora it was mostly like that as it went down in realtime, but yeah there was a ton of bus compression happening apart from that it's mostly in the envelopes
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it was strategic but only after we had put down a load of sequencing, it kind of revealed itself as a possibility with all the bits we had available to edit together
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i dunno i just realise i can't think of any way to improve it, so it gets shelved for a bit come back to it later see if i feel the same way
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How hard is it to hit the spot, just a feel thing? Or trial and error? both really. trial and error, feel to make decisions Not really, just the kind of stuff primary schools put in front of you. Thanx! Well i was just wondering if there was a defining moment that you said to yourself 'fuck that, let's go electronic' - Like the guy from OMD had after seeing Kraftwerk (as seen on this docu ) for me it was electro that did it, seeing people scratching and realising i could do that and seeing tomorrow's world with the emulator, and then seeing an sk-1 in dixons for 25 quid
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there's some shepard stuff on that .dial track off gg (u prob noticed already tbh it's pretty obvious) ha well if i do anything like that i'll fire it over i've been using msp for that cos as u prob know i like shoving things in the feedback path used to use the desk and whatever crappy delays we had around but i like being more in control of it if you get me
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yeah def i mean that kind of happened cos that loop had been already going for hours just as a kind of ambient relaxation thing and we decided to capture it for a bit that happens a fair bit tbh, i might do a 5 bpm mix of a track just for myself, or set it off running and just leave it on for a bit while i do stuff
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i'd say less than ramon i dunno i mean no one i know uses that term so i don't even know what artists qualify. i always think of general magic tho when someone says it really i guess it means yasunao, which i mean, well he's fucking brilliant isn't he no i've never seen it it looks a bit high level, but it's a cool idea for people new to max i suppose nah i don't know why everyone is focusing so much on the nsa everyone's at it, all spying on each other it's not like some nice neat pyramid, it's like a web in the future we're gonna be so much more networked than this, even the concept of monitoring will be totally antiquated what do you think of this quote by raymond scott Haha, god yeah that could get well messy. Nice sentiment though, but i like the spot we're at right now, i like ppl climbing into the bass bins at gigs, and ppl on balconies jostling for the best sweet spot..... Sweet spot on a balcony where all bass cumulate into mud and mids bounce like crazy? Sweet spot is definitely a subjective term then! :D Yeah theres something for everyone when u throw a huge acoustic space into the scenario. or an outdoor space Yeah I mean, with abstract music (your music) one can really benefit from inaccurate acoustics - interesting experiences may occur. I have unfortunately never been to your show so can't tell but I was pretty disappointed how most of my favourite bands sounded live. Sometimes I was even unable to recognize what track is playing at all and it was not because of them jamming unexpectedly - it was shit mix and acoustics basically. yeah the last tour was completely dry nord stuff so we were mixing it differently every night to make the room give us the reverb and echo, every room sounded different edit: actually rob had some verbs in the g2 as well
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various ways, sometimes it's all programmed step by step, sometimes played in, and sometimes defined in advance and then run off in realtime (i guess you could call that algorithmic) my spellcheck was turning realtime into teatime then
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tbh it's only frustrating in a third party kind of way like, if i'm seeing someone trying to explain to someone else what's good about a track and they end up resorting to ill-fitting metaphor or cliche-speak but in terms of us, and process, or playing rob stuff, nah, u can just tell if someone is getting it, there are a ton of unconscious signals i think. or i feel, i mean That makes sense, but I meant that I sometimes get an impulse to act (don't you?), driven by something inspiring, but because of the strange nature of the inspiration, there's no way to act on it, there's nothing that correlates in the real world - it's like watching a film containing the secrets of life but made by aliens, and totally connecting with it it, but then having no way to apply it It's the impulse to act on it more than the desire to explain it verbally I was talking about more It's like that thing Francis Bacon said: “Supposing I was satisfied with what I did? How can you be satisfied, because everything escapes you. You know that perfectly well. You know that even if you’re in love with somebody, everything escapes you. You want to be nearer that person, but how can you cut your flesh open and join with the other person? It’s an impossibility to do." There you go Ae, one of the victims of your musical output. i think bacon's assuming some things about death there
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no i've never seen it it looks a bit high level, but it's a cool idea for people new to max i suppose nah i don't know why everyone is focusing so much on the nsa everyone's at it, all spying on each other it's not like some nice neat pyramid, it's like a web in the future we're gonna be so much more networked than this, even the concept of monitoring will be totally antiquated what do you think of this quote by raymond scott Haha, god yeah that could get well messy. Nice sentiment though, but i like the spot we're at right now, i like ppl climbing into the bass bins at gigs, and ppl on balconies jostling for the best sweet spot..... Sweet spot on a balcony where all bass cumulate into mud and mids bounce like crazy? Sweet spot is definitely a subjective term then! :D Yeah theres something for everyone when u throw a huge acoustic space into the scenario. or an outdoor space
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travelogue but only cos i had that first for years i dunno about filters i don't have a fave really, i'll use anything
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not directly, our ref points are a bit different, we grew up on stuff like duke bootee, d-train, egyptian lover. they were doing weird things with drums, processing them in tasty ways, but the music wasn't like totally about that the way that dub is. i don't even know if it came from dub directly for them either i think my life in the bush of ghosts was really the record that made a lot of that stuff happen, at least in nyc anyway. but yeah if u wanna find stuff that's influenced us listen to tons of 80s hip hop, it might become more obvious if you let your blinkers down for a minute
