AAA - Ask Autechre Anything (Transcribed Edition)

[Guest jasondonervan]

 

Ask Autechre Anything - Transcribed Edition (googledocs)

 

Here is a transcribed edition for one of WATMM's finest moments: 'Ask Autechre Anything':

 

- 5 Days of question-fielding by Sean Booth and Rob Brown of Autechre

- 150+ WATMM Pages

- Over 1,500 questions answered/interactions. Yeah, I can't quite believe it either.

 

The TE is not in strict chronological order, this is due to questions being picked up by either Sean or Rob a few hours (in some cases days) later. Where that has happened, I have seated responses together in the spreadsheet, which hopefully ensures that it makes more sense to read than having a feed of responses as they appeared over the five days.

 

Some edits to posts were made, for efficiency in reading through this document, mainly to keep context to just the questions/answers or where an interesting dialogue was held. However, all responses from Sean or Rob are exactly as they appeared - save for the occasional formatting to make them easier to read in the spreadsheet.

 

Huge thanks to Sean and Rob for slicing through the myths, dishing out technical knowledge/recommendations/toplels, providing some inspiration to the music makers, and naming all the electronic devices/body parts ever known.

 

Hearty handshake to Joyrex for making it happen - it was a blast.

[Alcofribas]

*prints topic*

[Stock]

Woah that's really awesome, thanks m8

[Amen Lare]

Whatever, don't care lol

[goDel]

Awesome!

[Ivan Ooze]

this is the most epic AEver

 

thanks a lot jason!!!

[apriorion]

Holy Shit, jasondonervan! That's amazingly great! Thanks for that, and of course, thanks to Autechre for being the coolest artists I've ever heard of. Seriously, I still can't believe this went down, and I'm still getting caught up (although this spreadsheet makes it way easier--thanks again!).

[Guest Atom Dowry Firth]

Nice one! Thanks dude

[Guest WNS000]

Great job. Thank you for this.

[Friendly Foil]

noice!

[foresense]

Aeaeaeaergh so much text

[Guest Gravity]

Thanks for this, you're a beast.

[cloud capture]

Cool.

[Adamovich]

tits

[sheatheman]

Ah, the archivist strikes. He has been conserving energy, doing only the smallest jobs, waiting for the big one to come along. Good job.

[rekosn]

you the man jason

[Bertolt Brechtakt]

Cool. I was just about to cut through the 162 pages. Thanks for preventing me doing it :) Great work!

[Guest RadarJammer]

the notes/links column is eating up a lot of space for not giving much info, how can i delete that column before exporting to pdf?

[oscillik]

the notes/links column is eating up a lot of space for not giving much info, how can i delete that column before exporting to pdf?

you can't, it's been locked so that it can't be vandalised - that happened last time with the Autechre webcasts, lots of hard work was undone because some prick went and fucked it up.

[gmanyo]

This is great. Pin it possibly?

[lumpenprol]

you can entitle the thread:

 

"Ae - Unplugged and Naked"

[awepittance]

haha woah, didn't see this bit

 

question:

 

 

Grant Wilson Claridge has said he doesn't think Aphex will release any more records, because he has given out enough of his music already.

 

What motivates you guys to keep releasing?

answer:

 

that interview with grant is weird, it's like he genuinely doesn't understand why people release music

 

maybe someone fucked up his brain

[awepittance]

what an opportunity seriously, i almost wish we could go back in time, have joyrex give us a week's notice and then prepare all our questions for the big event. I'm not super happy with what i asked them looking back on it, lots of people asked great questions though. Definitely the most interesting Autechre interview out there, haha

[goDel]

*creates a 'what we should have axed ae, but didn't' thread*

[Goiter Sanchez]

THanks for all your efforts jasondonervan!