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How do you like watmm sense of humor?
Also...we somethimes make jokes about you but it's all love.
When/if u get really angry about something how that looks like?
Thnx forever! Come by sometime.
yeah it's not a million miles away from ours
i dunno, i tend to get it over with p quickly :)
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Is there any sense in which you see your work as a critique of technology, art, or mathematics?
a la John Zerzan (primitivist philosopher)
...or do you see it as a fulfillment of any of these?
nah tbh we dunno what we're doing at all
It was raining yesterday in Memphis, it's rather clear and sunny here today.
What's the weather like over there for you boys?
rainy, grey, cool
quite typical for manchester
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3 questions that are really just one :
Being constantly working / listening to music, do you feel it does still move you as much as when you were young teenagers, discovering everything ?
Do you think your sensitivity evolved a lot or are your obsessions pretty much still the same ?
Do you feel more creative now or in your earlier days ?
yeah in a way it's easier to find things now cos there are way more chances, so in terms of it being rewarding it's actually better now than it was then
yeah obsessions are still pretty locked (i think u can tell really)
now, but only with the benefit of hindsight
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1-bis) Can you name the biggest notable differences in crowd mentalities at Autechre gigs between Europe, Asia, and America?
*push*
probably a difficult question to answer i suppose
well it's never stable, and to an extent things are evening out with the internets and all
but back in the day (generally) the rave scene in america was completely different to europe
ah u know what i cba typing all this again, everything i was gonna say is already scattered ITT
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CU Ae guys it was a pleasure. Also my Augmatic Pisspot asks for a visit, don't want to go into details though. Have a good life!
cheers sausagewater
it's my fave thing he's done
it's weird cos a lot of my mates slagged it cos of the film quality, but i reckon it appeals to me even more than film cos i like some old video art as well
the way it flows is amazing tho
it's sad that he said he won't do any more, but he's old and i like enough of his music for it not to be a huge deal. but man, he was getting so good there
to me Inland Empire is the most Autechrian film ever, if that makes any sense.
well that's a huge compliment
it def resonates with me in a weirdly deep way
i mean i was always a massive fan but that was like, times 10 for me
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What did you guys think of Lynch's Inland Empire?
it's my fave thing he's done
it's weird cos a lot of my mates slagged it cos of the film quality, but i reckon it appeals to me even more than film cos i like some old video art as well
the way it flows is amazing tho
it's sad that he said he won't do any more, but he's old and i like enough of his music for it not to be a huge deal. but man, he was getting so good there
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Thanks, Rob and Sean, for the inspiration and for continuing to raise the bar with every release. The wealth of information here is tremendous. Thanks for giving us all a little peek behind the curtain for a few days.
I noticed a mention of physical modeling and how you said you can achieve the same sorts of formant / vocal sounds using things like band-pass filters and pulse width modulation. I was listening to "Osla for n" again (incredible) and thought of the formant growling throughout the track, later being gated into more of a 4/4 groove. Is this the type of formant control you were referring to, as something you can do in Max without needing a physical modeling synth, or was much of the formant shaping of the sound already present in the source material? My apologies if I'm interpreting what I'm hearing incorrectly.
Any other question I could think of has already been answered, and I apologize if this was already touched-on. Thanks again, guys! I'll be reading through this thread for days.
Jon B (@RheyneMusic)
Rheyne
er that was a weird method i'd rather not disclose right now
but nah it's not 'formant synthesis' as it's normally defined
the source was white noise
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On the subject of Dune, y'all mention Jodorowsky...what do y'all think about Holy Mountain?
Gotta fav by him? (remember you mentioning a collab w/ moebius)
yeah it's good, but chaotic and ugly
i like el topo
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Do either of you have a record that you own which you enjoy so much, you have doubles (triples? etc.) of it?
yeah quite a few
some were accidental, happens when i'm on tour
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I hear Guild Navigators chattering in Tankakarn. did you enjoy the original Dune?
yeah i love it but that cut in the middle - i hope one day the whole thing comes out
Hmm, maybe do a break in the middle of the set to do body part naming requests?
lel
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my questions kinda got skpped earlier but - these I just really want to know -
1. How much unreleased material do you guys have in comparison to actually released material
2. I know you mentioned earlier that you guys aren't allowed to release under even your own names - but do you guys work separately sometimes on things that you guys don't agree on and leave them unreleased for the future?
1. already answered this, sorry, long as fuck answer, cba finding it to paste
2. we keep stuff back yeah, depends, not much of that is cos of us not agreeing
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Either of you suffer from migraines with an aura (that look something similar to this) -
First time I had one I thought I was going blind, now I embrace the fractalline (is that a word) beauty of them ... until the nausea and headache sets in that is.
no, I'm lucky i don't think i ever had one
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If you could give yourself some cyborg-like upgrayedd what would it be?
i'd like the same range of hearing as a cat
and the same for vision, i'd like to be able to see into the uv
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Probably last post from me in this thread unless I have a flash of inspiration tonight in the pub.
Are there any cool places you would like to play a gig? Weird locations, cities you have never been too, famous buildings?
They have started doing gigs in the dungeons at Oxford Castle, this would be an awesome ae gig experience. Not sure what the acoustics are like though
Somewhere like Jodrell Bank would make an epic autechre experience.
Also PLZ get Grischa Lichtenberger or Oberman Knocks (or both) to support you on your next tour. And Rob Hall again.
Cheers thanks
Feltch out.
jodrell bank kind of owns really, that or blue john mines/white scar caves, and a gig inside the untersberg might be a total mindfuck
cheers
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Last question from me, for Sean. Is that Winterbottom I can hear purring away in garbagemx36?
I had a great question yesterday on my way home from work but I forgot it, so I guess that's that :(
Thanks again for this guys, you've gone way way way above and beyond. Appreciate that you've put up with the often ridiculous questions! Looking forward to future ae material with baited breath. Come to London soon :)
no, but he did get onto a track on chiastic
ok wildo
cheers man, it's been more productive than doing 10 years worth of interviews
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This next question is something I've been a bit hesistant about asking. Because you guys might not like it. At all.
Years ago (around the Untilted release period I think) I've read an interview in a (dutch?) magazine. The end of the interview got a bit weird, because the journie asked "whats the most extreme thing a fan ever did" or something like that.
You said you were afraid to answer that question. You said you would agree to tell it only if the interviewer agreed not to publish the story. Because you were afraid should that one fan read it, he might get more crazy ideas or something. The interviewer then said you told the story, and he confirmed that it was indeed pretty messed up.
So, after all these years, can you tell what that was about?
I mean, you probably won't. But I once made a thread about it here, and some said it had something to do with a fake hoax video someone made, that a lot of people thought was real.
Fuck, I hope this isn't too much of a downer.
yeah i think i know what this is about, not totally sure tbh cos i can't rem the interview
but nah i wouldn't talk about (what i'm thinking of) here cos it would fuck someone's reputation and that's kind of totally unnecessary in this context
oh btw its got nothing to do with any video
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This one is probably difficult so just whatever comes to the fore of your minds at first: What are some of your favourite pieces of euphoria inducing music (considering that different things are euphoric for different heads)?
'now this is fun' by depeche mode always gets me in a really up state, but it's not really euphoric in the way most people mean (i.e. 'too many fizzy synths')
wait, you named someone's left nut Hitler, but shied away from proposing baby names? Clearly you don't fully appreciate the solemn, terrible responsibility inherent in naming someone's balls. Next to that, naming a kid is a walk in the park...
i know and hitler? how lazy
you could have called it bobby
cool, bobby it is, let's hope it's not a girl then. Will let you know in 6 mos
thats a bit like my name, anyway bobby's nice for a girl too.
wait
you're giving birth to a testicle?
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Bumpage:
If you were given the option to select one of your tracks to go on a golden record* to be beamed into space, which would you choose?
*Incomplete without surface noise
yeah this is a variation of the faves question
i dunno man, fuck, you decide
Thanks for your answer about recury.
I finally dare to ask you some words about one track of mine:
Just because it may be my only opportunity in my life :)
Hi again, just in case you miss this post, i post again, i dont need compliments (i dont care), just words about your feelings by sharing sounds i made.To be very happy to know that my stuff went once to your ears :)
yeah its weird its like hearing memories from 20 years ago thru a time lens of now
are those r8/roland sounds? (some bits sound like it, others don't)
Mainly FS1R and evolver, thanks :)
nice
extra points for that
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This next question is something I've been a bit hesistant about asking. Because you guys might not like it. At all.
Years ago (around the Untilted release period I think) I've read an interview in a (dutch?) magazine. The end of the interview got a bit weird, because the journie asked "whats the most extreme thing a fan ever did" or something like that.
You said you were afraid to answer that question. You said you would agree to tell it only if the interviewer agreed not to publish the story. Because you were afraid should that one fan read it, he might get more crazy ideas or something. The interviewer then said you told the story, and he confirmed that it was indeed pretty messed up.
So, after all these years, can you tell what that was about?
I mean, you probably won't. But I once made a thread about it here, and some said it had something to do with a fake hoax video someone made, that a lot of people thought was real.
Fuck, I hope this isn't too much of a downer.
yeah i think i know what this is about, not totally sure tbh cos i can't rem the interview
but nah i wouldn't talk about (what i'm thinking of) here cos it would fuck someone's reputation and that's kind of totally unnecessary in this context
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Thanks for your answer about recury.
I finally dare to ask you some words about one track of mine:
Just because it may be my only opportunity in my life :)
Hi again, just in case you miss this post, i post again, i dont need compliments (i dont care), just words about your feelings by sharing sounds i made.To be very happy to know that my stuff went once to your ears :)
yeah its weird its like hearing memories from 20 years ago thru a time lens of now
are those r8/roland sounds? (some bits sound like it, others don't)
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Q: how many epic ae jams have the fans deprived themselves of by distracting you with this Q&A?
not too many
we might do like 1 each a day at the moment, so you're like, gonna have to wait 5 days longer before we get our live shit together
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no questions left, but endless gratitude for your music that had been following me for years, throught ups & down, days & nights. hugely impressed by what you achieve. thanks a lot for the questions answered, the time spent here & the ID tracking of that Beaumont Hannant tune !! :-)
cheers
yeah np at all, massively happy u found Beau, get any stuff of his
basic data manipulation
sculptured
texturology
mostly mind blowing - yet, too clean to be so, somehow.
yr welcome,
Just want to say you guys have made my whole week... really appreciate it.
Hope to see you in NYC soon.
ok - like new york a lot. hope so!
always really liked these
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This one is probably difficult so just whatever comes to the fore of your minds at first: What are some of your favourite pieces of euphoria inducing music (considering that different things are euphoric for different heads)?
'now this is fun' by depeche mode always gets me in a really up state, but it's not really euphoric in the way most people mean (i.e. 'too many fizzy synths')
wait, you named someone's left nut Hitler, but shied away from proposing baby names? Clearly you don't fully appreciate the solemn, terrible responsibility inherent in naming someone's balls. Next to that, naming a kid is a walk in the park...
i know and hitler? how lazy
you could have called it bobby
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what do you think about Terrence Dixon?
dunno, haven't been played any - detroit guy right? . sorry any good suggestions?
his classic releases on Tresor, Background recs
and recent are not bad too (as Population One)
http://hardwax.com/69500/population-one/random-variables/
he is kinda voodoo man
yeah i can tell i'm gonna like this, gonna do a bit of catchup here
thanks for this, good pick
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2. nah
3. nah cos i didn't play her it
4. nah (see above)
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