AAA - Ask Autechre Anything - Sean and Rob on WATMM!

[nizzleone]

That track on Across Uneven Terrain is uncharacteristically straight up techno (and some fine fine techno imho), how did that come about? Do you guys listen to an current techno producers?

[lumpenprol]

please no guest vocals unless you warp and degrade them mercilessly

 

when making Oversteps, was there even a small element of it being a reaction against those folks who had been saying "they forgot how to make nice melodies"? Or were you just following your muse as per usual?

 

Edit: btw that tale about Bucephalus Bouncing Ball vs. Drane 2 is fantastic!

 

(Drane 2 is one of my absolute faves)

Edited November 6, 2013 by lumpenprol

[Rob Ae]

A couple more while you're thinking up some to questions for us...

 

Amber is your only sleeve with seemingly untreated photography, is this something you would consider going back to, or do you think abstract/generated art is the bet visual interpretation of your music?

 

Any thoughts on the midlands? North and south England seem to have strong identities, but us midlanders seem to get forgotten about.

 

Also, been stuck in a creative rut lately, but all yr talk of enjoying jamming tracks has really inspired me into doing stuff like that and I'm pretty happy with all, definitely needed to stop thinking about the result and just get lost in the moment. So thanks for that!

nah brumes get the love from above and below, whereas top and bottom hate each other no?

[Guest WNS000]

please no guest vocals unless you warp and degrade them mercilessly

 

when making Oversteps, was there even a small element of it being a reaction against those folks who had been saying "they forgot how to make nice melodies"? Or were you just following your muse as per usual?

 

Edit: btw that tale about Bucephalus Bouncing Ball vs. Drane 2 is fantastic!

 

(Drane 2 is one of my absolute faves)

 

Good question. Interested too.

[Rob Ae]

 

 

 

The Stereolab remix is awesome, how did it come about? Are you fans of theirs or did they approach you or what?

 

Curious about this.

 

they asked us, i think they liked our tracks and wanted a version, was good fun to make, and we managed to bang a few offcuts from their real drummer and her singing which i still really rate.

 

 

I feel embarrassed but can you (or anyone) please re-write this sentence to standard english so I can understand it better? I am not a native and idioms and slang are problem. Thank you. "and we managed to bang a few offcuts from their real drummer and her singing which i still really rate"

 

ahem, yeah we're not butchers or anything.

[Guest nth]

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpFwCN3TTEE&list=PLC37AC9E52F3C505F

 

1. There is a chance on releasing this in good quality without people? start in 4: 37 but also full would be cool;)

2. If there are other versions of songs from the Exai I mean Quaristice (Versions) only, that for the Exai 3. may in the future I will let your album or ep, I'd like the names for them;)

 

 

iirc jamie did record this set but he did a mix of soundboard and room mics, so no basically

 

3 questions one response ;(

[triachus]

I've found out in this thread you guys have once performed with Fennesz. I'm guessing there are no recordings of it?

 

Also found this: http://autechre.net.ua/en/articles/article11.htm

 

What year was that? How did it that you guys performed together, who contacted who?

 

You said playing with him "went well". Is there a chance you guys might ever do something like that again? Or a collaborated album? Maybe just 1 track even? Fennesz is quite the collaboration beast.

[keltoi]

 

 

sean, you mentioned the physical toll of touring... d'you mean like all the partying and std's ;) or the travelling and stress of having to be in a certain place, certain time, etc? i guess i'm interested in whether as you get older, you find the late night nature of touring, performing, etc becoming more of a chore?

 

what's your perfect 'buzz' for performing? (if anything)

what's your favourite continent and why?

how often (when you're not touring) do you get recognized in the street?

what iyo is the last good orb record? and last good black dog record?

what do think of the roses comeback?

what would you like for christmas?

 

[Rob Ae]

ok cant find my old question on here but was wondering if u guys ever upgraded to a pacarana or still messing with kyma language ??> :)

answered this earlier but no, our Capybara is with Daz Fitton, Bola

[purlieu]

 

A couple more while you're thinking up some to questions for us...

Amber is your only sleeve with seemingly untreated photography, is this something you would consider going back to, or do you think abstract/generated art is the bet visual interpretation of your music?

Any thoughts on the midlands? North and south England seem to have strong identities, but us midlanders seem to get forgotten about.

Also, been stuck in a creative rut lately, but all yr talk of enjoying jamming tracks has really inspired me into doing stuff like that and I'm pretty happy with all, definitely needed to stop thinking about the result and just get lost in the moment. So thanks for that!

 

nah brumes get the love from above and below, whereas top and bottom hate each other no?

 

A couple more while you're thinking up some to questions for us...

Amber is your only sleeve with seemingly untreated photography, is this something you would consider going back to, or do you think abstract/generated art is the bet visual interpretation of your music?

Any thoughts on the midlands? North and south England seem to have strong identities, but us midlanders seem to get forgotten about.

Also, been stuck in a creative rut lately, but all yr talk of enjoying jamming tracks has really inspired me into doing stuff like that and I'm pretty happy with all, definitely needed to stop thinking about the result and just get lost in the moment. So thanks for that!

 

nah brumes get the love from above and below, whereas top and bottom hate each other no?

Kinda, though lots hate it for the accent. East Mids gets the most forgotten, Nottingham, Leicester, Derby.

[Rob Ae]

shameless push

 

 

This page on whosampled.com:

 

 

http://www.whosampled.com/search/?q=autechre

 

 

Is it accurate? If not, where?

 

 

Any other things that should be added?

hah, you can't blame me for trying

 

 

*slight shame*

 

yeah this all looks in order. theres much debate as to the original Gangstarr part tho'

[Sean Ae]

please no guest vocals unless you warp and degrade them mercilessly

 

when making Oversteps, was there even a small element of it being a reaction against those folks who had been saying "they forgot how to make nice melodies"? Or were you just following your muse as per usual?

 

Edit: btw that tale about Bucephalus Bouncing Ball vs. Drane 2 is fantastic!

 

(Drane 2 is one of my absolute faves)

 

oversteps - basically we were making algorithms with a view to using them repeatedly, and seeing how flexible we could make them in terms of being able to reuse them in lots of different contexts (making diff styles of music) and it kind of grew out of that

i dunno if we were really successful in achieving our aims (not really, we got very sidetracked and went with it into a different zone) but we liked the result and ended up shaping it further into that kind of oversteps territory

 

i think we were concentrating on melody, harmony counterpoint and all that cos the rhythm stuff has been second nature for a while, in terms of programming and algos and such, and we thought we might learn more if we came at it from the opposite angle

 

shameless push

 

 

This page on whosampled.com:

 

 

http://www.whosampled.com/search/?q=autechre

 

 

Is it accurate? If not, where?

 

 

Any other things that should be added?

hah, you can't blame me for trying

 

 

*slight shame*

 

yeah this all looks in order. theres much debate as to the original Gangstarr part tho'

 

did u even check that recury one?

[Guest kero]

 

ok cant find my old question on here but was wondering if u guys ever upgraded to a pacarana or still messing with kyma language ??> :)

answered this earlier but no, our Capybara is with Daz Fitton, Bola

 

ahh cool couldn't find earlier. was wondering about your guys kyma usage, i thought i saw u using during a show in detroit festival a few years back , some black boxes sitting beside laptops. could have been harddrives though. im just 2 years into kyma language thanks to the butthole surfers :)

Edited November 6, 2013 by kero

[daed]

I always find it difficult to fathom constantly working with another person. Are there any "solo" tracks that either of you have put out?

 

What are some tips for collaborating with other musicians and not being completely selfish/dominant?

[Guest Ando]

I can't keep up with the questions anymore so I might be asking a repeat

 

How did you guys get set up spinning for IBC?

 

Also who did the scratching on Goz Quarter

[Guest WNS000]

 

 

 

 

The Stereolab remix is awesome, how did it come about? Are you fans of theirs or did they approach you or what?

 

Curious about this.

 

they asked us, i think they liked our tracks and wanted a version, was good fun to make, and we managed to bang a few offcuts from their real drummer and her singing which i still really rate.

 

 

I feel embarrassed but can you (or anyone) please re-write this sentence to standard english so I can understand it better? I am not a native and idioms and slang are problem. Thank you. "and we managed to bang a few offcuts from their real drummer and her singing which i still really rate"

 

ahem, yeah we're not butchers or anything.

 

 

Haha, no that wasn't what I was thinking. What I got wrong was that I thought you meant "I am really glad (and proud) we managed to convince their drummer and singer to give us few out-takes" which wasn't very meaningful translation for me in the given context :D I mean it does give sense but...why would you be so proud of that? :D

 

...torturing a drummer and a singer in a basement to finally get those fucking stems out of them.

Edited November 6, 2013 by Jev

[Sean Ae]

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpFwCN3TTEE&list=PLC37AC9E52F3C505F

 

1. There is a chance on releasing this in good quality without people? start in 4: 37 but also full would be cool;)

2. If there are other versions of songs from the Exai I mean Quaristice (Versions) only, that for the Exai 3. may in the future I will let your album or ep, I'd like the names for them;)

 

 

iirc jamie did record this set but he did a mix of soundboard and room mics, so no basically

 

3 questions one response ;(

 

 

oh sorry

your weird formatting threw me

 

2 there are but no plans to release any yet

 

3 can you rephrase that?

[Salvatorin]

Does Recks on sample boogie boys - you ain't fresh ?

[Rob Ae]

 

 

ok cant find my old question on here but was wondering if u guys ever upgraded to a pacarana or still messing with kyma language ??> :)

answered this earlier but no, our Capybara is with Daz Fitton, Bola

 

ahh cool couldn't find earlier. was wondering about your guys kyma usage, i thought i saw u using during a show in detroit festival a few years back , some black boxes sitting beside laptops. could have been harddrives though. im just 2 years into kyma language thanks to the butthole surfers :)

 

nah we didn't take kyma outside.

[nizzleone]

You guys have any favorite Longmont Potion Castle tracks?

[YELLOW]

Have you ever seen the Hard Format series? Exai for example: http://www.hardformat.org/8745/autechre-exai/

 

Thoughts on top gear uk? They seem to like using some of your tracks here and there

 

Was garbagemx really an amber outtake? Sounds like it's from the chiastic era.

[pyramidpanes]

 

No answers ;( ......... my juno 6 & korg delta are sittin by a bath contemplating life or not wrkin..

lol sorry mate, i keep half expecting SB to have named this already as I'm still 3 pages from the edge…..

 

your juno6 is called Robert Mcall

 

your korg is called Freddie Laker

 

 

Ha ha genius thx rob! some serious names there.... sry to ask again my 1st question way back was to see if you guys would potentially be interested to do something at this space which is a multi story car park, sometime nxt summer. Russell Haswell & many others did projects there last summer, what would b the best way to get some info to u about it? should i pm u some links so u can check it out?

[Sean Ae]

I can't keep up with the questions anymore so I might be asking a repeat

 

How did you guys get set up spinning for IBC?

 

Also who did the scratching on Goz Quarter

 

originally, in 87 or 88, our mate ged met someone on a bus i think, and somehow rob b got asked to go and spin some tunes, but they got raided

 

so then in like 89 i think or 90 we got another call off them just asking if we were still djing and we said we were doing tracks and they invited us onto andy's show to do an interview as a band (i guess to fill some time)

then after the interview we got chatting and they came back a few weeks later and offered us a show and we thought it would be a good way to get our tracks out there so we said yeah

[kausto]

that story about Roedelius shouting on you after collaboration with him and Fennesz reminds me of story behind performing and recording of MIMEO - 'The Hands Of Caravaggio' but in opposite way — John Tilbury was patient and behaved with dignity and respect (but was really shocked, according to memoirs)

 

btw, do you know Marcus Schmickler?

[marf]

have you guys noticed how little music seems to come out of these synth forum enthusiasts? like a guy with 30 grand in serge modules doesn't seem to make any music. do you find there is a danger in making the gear center stage? do you think it gets in the way of making tracks?