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

[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

Haha, me too.

 

Did you miss my 1st Q or is it unworthy / already answered in the thread (thought I'd read the whole thing)

 

no i hadn't used trackers b4 renoise….. i badly missed out.

[soma333]

2) i dunno much about what's good i have a habit of using absolutely anything

 

Ha! Had this exact feeling last night recording :)

[Sean Ae]

Wish I could give y'all something!

 

Elementary questions are all I can think of for y'all...

So anyway, what's your fav color?

 

i like combinations more than actual colours

 

like, lots of black with small amounts of 100% green and white

100% blue next to 100% yellow

cyan and red, with bits of grey

 

tons of others but i don't wanna be here all day lol

[Rob Ae]

Wish I could give y'all something!

 

Elementary questions are all I can think of for y'all...

So anyway, what's your fav color?

octarene, its the colour Bola used to classify as that colour greenandpurple u see in your closed eye when yr tripping, but i see it anytime i want now.

Edited November 7, 2013 by Rob Ae

[kausto]

what do you think about Terrence Dixon?

[Sean Ae]

 

 

any plans to play the newly refurbed glasgow art school?

 

would an artificial intelligence reunion tour be mad fun or what?

 

we will if we get asked

 

re ai: i reckon it would be a pretty strong lineup if it was all the orig people

i'd do it, if there was an easy way to do the tracks, not thought about that bit

 

 

not kidding re line-up. has it ever been discussed at warp d'you know? i can't be the first to suggest it. i'd come of retirement for a gig like that!

 

no idea, they never mentioned it. fly idea tho, i guess a lot of it hinges on how much the artists would want to honour the ai thing, whether they play old tracks, or new ones etc

[Rob Ae]

Which tracks (from anybody) makes you cry in an abyss of nostalgia and sadness?

planet rock

[Guest]

Any thoughts on Drexciyan music?

[Sean Ae]

what do you think about Terrence Dixon?

who hell he?

 

never heard

[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!

 

yeah ok, sorry if i was too nitpicky - hot/cold those trax. oops

 

but yeah re: norway 'pule' - its quite a slinky number too so could be deployed to good use?

funny someone posted that æ means 'I' in finnish was it? so yeah theres probably a few

 

i think seans lower arms more chunky so i'd put money there if i were u. i might win pool. we'll run that test next outing and report.

 

 

no prob man, I don't think it was too nitpicky. What do you think of Biosphere btw, while we're on the topic of electronic music from Norw?

 

hmm yes I suppose pule does have some seducing powers, I'll keep that in mind! while on the topic... any suggestions on how to have more luck with the ladies/dating scene? all kinds of tips is highly appreciated!

 

 

ah haha, æ is actually Norwegian again, and yes it's a dialect variation of Norwegian "jeg" which means "I" (æ is pronounced as a combination of a and e, as the form suggests). I happen to speak that dialect actually. Lot's of the vocabulary in our dialect consists of single vowels, like for instance the sentence " æ e fra Norge" means "I'm from Norway" Actually the æ vowel existed in Old English, as in words such as æsthetic and encyclopædia. Reminds me off.. .isn't the track name "dael" from tri repetae actually an old English word, "dæl", meaning "part" or "unit". In Norwegian the word for "part" is "del". (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dæl) pretty cool stuff this I think :)

 

 

Awesome! I'm eagerly awaiting that report! =)

 

Thanks alot man for ur time!

[Sean Ae]

Any thoughts on Drexciyan music?

 

yeah amazing

drexciya 2 was shocking

[triachus]

 

Wish I could give y'all something!

 

Elementary questions are all I can think of for y'all...

So anyway, what's your fav color?

octarene, its the colour Bola used to classify as that colour greenandpurple u see in your closed eye when yr tripping, but i see it anytime i want now.

 

Bola took that colour from a book of the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. And it's spelled octarine.

 

 

[hoggy]

 

 

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

 

Can you recommend any musicians who use both electronic made music and noisy physical instruments/vocals in a way that rocks and makes you want to go crazy? (genuinely interested, totally understand if you can't think of one off the top of your head)

[mgore10]

a couple of questions that were missed earlier (no problem):

1. Have you ever checked out some of the electroacoustic/acousmatic concerts at the University of Manchester with their 24+ channel "MANTIS" sound system?

They do some pretty amazing things with aural images and spatial counterpoint. The music coming out of there is quite gestural, but still really taps into cross-modal perception in a meaningful way, if one's listening skills and attention span are up for it. Some "academic" composers that are doing some really interesting DSP - Natasha Barrett (although she is from Norway), David Berezan (professor at U Manchester), Manuella Blackburn.

2. Either of you have any interest in Supercollider anymore, or does Smalltalk code do your head it too much?

I love Max to death, but often feel deflated when some algorithmic process takes an extraordinary amount of patching in Max, but is only several lines of code in Supercollider.

[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

 

Can you recommend any musicians who use both electronic made music and noisy physical instruments/vocals in a way that rocks and makes you want to go crazy? (genuinely interested, totally understand if you can't think of one off the top of your head)

 

cocteau twins

[Rob Ae]

what do you think about Terrence Dixon?

dunno, haven't been played any - detroit guy right? . sorry any good suggestions?

[Sean Ae]

 

a couple of questions that were missed earlier (no problem):

 

1. Have you ever checked out some of the electroacoustic/acousmatic concerts at the University of Manchester with their 24+ channel "MANTIS" sound system?

 

They do some pretty amazing things with aural images and spatial counterpoint. The music coming out of there is quite gestural, but still really taps into cross-modal perception in a meaningful way, if one's listening skills and attention span are up for it. Some "academic" composers that are doing some really interesting DSP - Natasha Barrett (although she is from Norway), David Berezan (professor at U Manchester), Manuella Blackburn.

 

 

2. Either of you have any interest in Supercollider anymore, or does Smalltalk code do your head it too much?

 

I love Max to death, but often feel deflated when some algorithmic process takes an extraordinary amount of patching in Max, but is only several lines of code in Supercollider.

 

 

 

1. no

 

2. i prefer max cos it suggests tangents

[Rob Ae]

 

a couple of questions that were missed earlier (no problem):

 

1. Have you ever checked out some of the electroacoustic/acousmatic concerts at the University of Manchester with their 24+ channel "MANTIS" sound system?

 

They do some pretty amazing things with aural images and spatial counterpoint. The music coming out of there is quite gestural, but still really taps into cross-modal perception in a meaningful way, if one's listening skills and attention span are up for it. Some "academic" composers that are doing some really interesting DSP - Natasha Barrett (although she is from Norway), David Berezan (professor at U Manchester), Manuella Blackburn.

 

 

2. Either of you have any interest in Supercollider anymore, or does Smalltalk code do your head it too much?

 

I love Max to death, but often feel deflated when some algorithmic process takes an extraordinary amount of patching in Max, but is only several lines of code in Supercollider.

 

1 no i haven't, i didn't know they got acoustic setup there.

 

ok cool,

 

2 i never used SC. no good at coding really.

[Guest]

Do you have any favourite albums or tracks in the Chris Douglas universe? I think my fav album is Seimlste. SDSS as a track is great, even though it differs a bit but hey.

HAHA bad name choice, he said O.S.T was eaten by the interwebbs

Edited November 7, 2013 by Guest

[Rob Ae]

 

 

Wish I could give y'all something!

 

Elementary questions are all I can think of for y'all...

So anyway, what's your fav color?

octarene, its the colour Bola used to classify as that colour greenandpurple u see in your closed eye when yr tripping, but i see it anytime i want now.

 

Bola took that colour from a book of the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. And it's spelled octarine.

 

 

 

yeah i think he likes Pratchett.

[Sean Ae]

Do you have any favourite albums or tracks in the Chris Douglas universe? I think my fav album is Seimlste. SDSS as a track is great, even though it differs a bit but hey.

HAHA bad name choice, he said O.S.T was eaten by the interwebbs

 

benacah drann deachd

[YELLOW]

Don't have any more questions to ask but thanks rob and sean for doing this, see ya if you come to new england

[kausto]

 

what do you think about Terrence Dixon?

who hell he?

 

never heard

 

 

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7xAthi5Vrw[/media]

 

atkins' shadow producer

and actress' reference

Edited November 7, 2013 by telefunken

[Rob Ae]

Any thoughts on Drexciyan music?

yeah out of the detroit lot, they were the first for me, to show how 'dizzy' they could get their funk, like mad mike had the funk but really fast and quite pneumatic sort of tight, and juan with his shaky proper dance club stuff, but drexciya, were super wet sounding with the ms20 type of sound they went for more often. rubbery, and yeah i really went for the overseeing nobility they played with as characters.

Edited November 7, 2013 by Rob Ae

[eclipsis]

Newbound should have been titled meowbound. Any way you could fix that huge mistake?