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

[Sean Ae]

 

tbh i find these kind of axes a bit artificial, arbitrary at best. it's a shame there are these two predominant camps given how flexible it all actually is

But you believe that the two camps exist? I've never heard omnivorous music in that sense that is as good as specialised music (at least in some small sense) as far as I know - I genuinely want to find music that makes me think differently, I don't want there to be a boundary either

 

 

nah i think they don't really but a lot of bands seem to and the press are lazy so it perpetuates

[Guest rd1994]

you said somewhere that the Incunabula album was a compilation made of presenting tracks to WARP ...will the other tracks ever see the light of day

[Panoptic Sweep]

Seems you missed this:

 

Ok I'm really torn here about what to ask you guys and obviously a bit awestruck that youre being so gracious in patiently answering some of these questions,also even though a part of me wants to shamelessly whore out my S.O's music I've decided Im not going to.

However his birthday is on the 25th of December...can you imagine losing out to Jesus every year?

So...at the risk of reading like a postcard to Tiswas,please could you wish Happy Birthday to Max ?I know its early but what the hell.

Thank you both,in anticipation of your reply.

kisses etc

Lynne x

 

Come on, chaps. Don't be stingy with your love!

Edited November 7, 2013 by Panoptic Sweep

[triachus]

Lol @ Renaat. Busted.

 

 

The quoting format got a bit fucked up on my last post, don't know what happened there.

 

 

Retrying a question that got buried in that mess:

 

1-bis) Can you name the biggest notable differences in crowd mentalities at Autechre gigs between Europe, Asia, and America?

[Sean Ae]

you said somewhere that the Incunabula album was a compilation made of presenting tracks to WARP ...will the other tracks ever see the light of day

maybe, we have talked about that

dunno

[Rob Ae]

S & R, isn't this naming thing getting old?

 

 

can you name my left nut?

 

(like a zombie….) your left nut is called Hitler

[Sean Ae]

Seems you missed this:

 

Ok I'm really torn here about what to ask you guys and obviously a bit awestruck that youre being so gracious in patiently answering some of these questions,also even though a part of me wants to shamelessly whore out my S.O's music I've decided Im not going to.

However his birthday is on the 25th of December...can you imagine losing out to Jesus every year?

So...at the risk of reading like a postcard to Tiswas,please could you wish Happy Birthday to Max ?I know its early but what the hell.

Thank you both,in anticipation of your reply.

kisses etc

Lynne x

 

Come on, chaps

 

oh

 

happy birthday max

 

(is that ok?)

[Rob Ae]

You mentioned Sunvox and Renoise but have you got any background in older trackers like Impulse or FastTracker ?

 

EH is now called The Splund

 

Favourite episode of "the trap door" ?

a useful one def, but i like them all really - a lot

[Guest yenorom]

Have you used java with max or do you stick with C only? Java seems easier, OO not having to mess with pointers etc

[xox]

 

How accurate would you say the "10000" hour rule is? Is it something you've ever taken into account?

could he have just plucked that number out of thin air?

 

 

iirc that number mostly came out of studying correlations between time spent in practice of piano students and their later success

[Guest Little Lord Faulteroy]

 

massive thanks for doing this!!!

 

my questions are, who is your favorite visual artist at the moment?

i, personally, am very into illustration and arty stuff...

 

and do you sometimes make tracks pure for your own listening pleasure, like Boards of Canada with their cassetes, and Richard with his Thousands of tracks? perfectly finished tracks, but specially made to never leave the studio?

 

i like john berkey a lot, i like how he manages to convey scale but using really vague strokes, think he's a bit of a genius actually

and i really like syd mead and jean giraud as well

 

yeah we make tracks for ourselves all the time but sometimes i expressly make say a hip hop track or a straight 4/4 techno track, but i usually get bored before i finish them

i dunno how other people get anything like that finished tbh

 

massive, you're a Moebius/giraud-fan

 

just looked up john berkey, looks very nice

[Sean Ae]

what do you think about the cavity job single in retrospect?

 

i still wish they'd had the balls to release the original

but i guess we still could ourselves sometime

[Guest rd1994]

I will have to log off for today...since you will...at first not come back...I say good bye and its been fun take care guys

[Sean Ae]

Have you used java with max or do you stick with C only? Java seems easier, OO not having to mess with pointers etc

yeah but i don't have se6 on here so not atm

[Rob Ae]

 

Seems you missed this:

 

Ok I'm really torn here about what to ask you guys and obviously a bit awestruck that youre being so gracious in patiently answering some of these questions,also even though a part of me wants to shamelessly whore out my S.O's music I've decided Im not going to.

However his birthday is on the 25th of December...can you imagine losing out to Jesus every year?

So...at the risk of reading like a postcard to Tiswas,please could you wish Happy Birthday to Max ?I know its early but what the hell.

Thank you both,in anticipation of your reply.

kisses etc

Lynne x

 

Come on, chaps

 

oh

 

happy birthday max

 

(is that ok?)

 

sorry i was thrown by 'my S.O' what is it, i'm melting

 

 

Autechre say hi, happy birthday Max, and many happy returns too.

 

 

massive thanks for doing this!!!

 

my questions are, who is your favorite visual artist at the moment?

i, personally, am very into illustration and arty stuff...

 

and do you sometimes make tracks pure for your own listening pleasure, like Boards of Canada with their cassetes, and Richard with his Thousands of tracks? perfectly finished tracks, but specially made to never leave the studio?

 

i like john berkey a lot, i like how he manages to convey scale but using really vague strokes, think he's a bit of a genius actually

and i really like syd mead and jean giraud as well

 

yeah we make tracks for ourselves all the time but sometimes i expressly make say a hip hop track or a straight 4/4 techno track, but i usually get bored before i finish them

i dunno how other people get anything like that finished tbh

 

massive, you're a Moebius/giraud-fan

 

just looked up john berkey, looks very nice

 

yeah a real dark horse.

 

Robert Mcall is another nice style - pen/inky for sci fi illustrating, but Berkey is top acrylic

Edited November 7, 2013 by Rob Ae

[Sean Ae]

I will have to log off for today...since you will...at first not come back...I say good bye and its been fun take care guys

cheers bye

[Guest ZombieLincoln666]

Have you ever heard an interesting sound while out and about and sampled it with your cellphone?

 

Given the flexibility of software and controllers, do you still find your old hardware boxes (e.g. r8) useful?

 

How did you make fold4wrap5? The timing does my head in. Is the name a reference to this?

 

Do you ever play keyboards/pads live and record (opposed to sequencing)?

[casual helipad]

 

Greetings again! you still keep up strong, are you glad it's almost done, or could you keep on a couple of days longer? I must say this is fan-service like I've never experienced before, just super cool of you guys to do this! :)

 

ok so just a a couple of follow ups from previous posts.

 

- so Sean, while we're at the topic of Lost and SW.... any opinons on JJ. Abrams taking the SW franchise further with epVII? On imdb the original cast (Hamill, Ford, Fisher) is even rumored to reappear in their original roles. Will you watch it when it's released? or just forget that this whole thing is even happening?

 

- and speaking of books/literature, were any of you guys into Roald Dahl as kids? He was my childhood favourite, Willy Wonka, The BFG, the Twits and so on... so many memorable characters! his adult fiction is pretty ace as well, read anything of that?

 

 

 

 

some more random bits (a few questions from a post way back I think they were left unanwered):

 

- Dali or Escher? (any thoughts why you'd prefer either)

 

 

- Did you know that "pule" actually means "to fuck" in Norwegian? was that a conscious choice when naming the track or coincidence? I think it's pretty cool anyhow, and the track is great as well. It follow that pattern from Amber and Tri Repetae were you had one more ambient track towards the end of the album. It's almost like these albums (amber, tri repetae, chiastic slide) creates some kind of a narrative in a way (but then again I guess your whole discography taken as a whole, does :)

 

 

 

- what do you guys think of xploding plastix? like tracks such as these:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnJ998Trn7g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDz1Q_pxgc0

 

 

 

- What kind of teas are you mostly into? had noteworthy lately you'd like to recommend?

really not feeling the kazoo in here or the washboard stuff - thats totally wack, but the carpenter esque stuff with mellotronage at the beginning is nice - overall comes over as knowingly bad goofy. some sounds in it are good - like deep acoustic percs, but its not really focussing on any in particular, like needlessly switching to the wrong instrument every time i notice a good bit. seems like they're not 100% sure what they like imo.

 

 

 

cheers Rob, interesting views on these tracks! (tbh i'm not into music making at all, and ehm.. know very little of the technical stuff behind the process. but I really appreciate your thoughts and opinions, very interesing). . oh.. and ehm.. feel free to consider providing something on the other q's to in my post, I'm really curious about the pule track for instance! :)

 

 

oh and one more thing, I'm sure many in here are curious about this:

*** drumroll please ***

 

who would win a match of arm wrestling between Rob and Sean?? and a match of pool (8-ball, etc)??

 

 

 

sorry for all the nagging, I'm just very eagerly excited about the fact that I'm even having an interaction with the mighty AE! it feels strange kinda... in a good way of course!

[olo]

Justin Beiber has taken to Graf. Looks like Brazil is a little pissy he's been doing it there.

No questions really. Just figured it needed to be posted. Pretty dope.

 

[Rob Ae]

I will have to log off for today...since you will...at first not come back...I say good bye and its been fun take care guys

hey yeah, all the best

[Guest cult fiction]

Yesterday Rob opened the floodgates for people to post tracks for criticism and then Sean (probably wisely) closed those floodgates two posts later.

 

There was an Eutow rework posted earlier, so how about Autechre remixes? I think Sean said he doesn't care much for remixes, but I'm going to post it anyway. How bad/offensive is my d sho qub remix:

 

 

 

hides in cellar

 

[Panoptic Sweep]

 

oh

 

happy birthday max

 

(is that ok?)

 

sorry i was thrown by 'my S.O' what is it, i'm melting

 

 

Autechre say hi, happy birthday Max, and many happy returns too.

 

It's significant other Rob my friend, and Thank you both. Much love, thanks again for doing this its made my year. Can't wait to see you both in the new yaer :)

[Sean Ae]

Have you ever heard an interesting sound while out and about and sampled it with your cellphone?

 

Given the flexibility of software and controllers, do you still find your old hardware boxes (e.g. r8) useful?

 

How did you make fold4wrap5? The timing does my head in. Is the name a reference to this?

 

Do you ever play keyboards/pads live and record (opposed to sequencing)?

 

i haven't used the r8 for ages but the board is a bit knackered so it bends when i push the top left pads, needs fixing really

i think we got so good using it that i'd always keep one around, and yeah will prob even get a mk2 one day haha

the memory is shit tho i used to run out by doing busy patterns

 

ah that's easy tbh but i'm not saying

 

yeah

[Sean Ae]

Justin Beiber has taken to Graf. Looks like Brazil is a little pissy he's been doing it there.

No questions really. Just figured it needed to be posted. Pretty dope.

 

 

is this.. what.. i..

[olo]

 

Justin Beiber has taken to Graf. Looks like Brazil is a little pissy he's been doing it there.

No questions really. Just figured it needed to be posted. Pretty dope.

 

 

is this.. what.. i..

 

 

it's real

 

During his time in Brazil, the "Bad Day" singer was also caught doing some graffiti art when he spray-painted the former Hotel Nacional in the Joá neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro. A complaint was filed on Wednesday, Nov. 6, and police opened an investigation to determine whether he broke the law.

Spray-painting on public or private property is categorized as "vandalism" in Brazil and considered a misdemeanor. Bieber's team said the singer was given permission by city hall to do graffiti on a different wall, but they felt the area was too dangerous and therefore opted to tag the hotel, assuming it was an abandoned building. If it turns out that Bieber didn't receive permission, he could be charged with vandalism and be sentenced to pay a fine or spend between three months to a year in jail.

Hours later, Bieber tagged even more walls and shared the evidence via Instagram. "Who's gon stop me haaannn," he wrote in one photo caption. Calling graffiti art his "escape," the bad boy told his fans, "Every place I have tagged has been approved I do not suggest tagging private property. I still suck but I have fun doing it."

 

 

at least he is self-aware of this.

Edited November 7, 2013 by olo