Twitch AMA

well i discoverd lorenzo and this is really pretty i think.

  On 6/5/2022 at 8:41 PM, Wunderbar said:

well i discoverd lorenzo and this is really pretty i think.

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trough the livestream

nice details on some tracks. the stereolab remix drum sounds were in the asr and that sound comes from the compressor in there.. which is awesome. the drum sounds in that remix are sick. especially that second part where it's all getting really pushed and it sounds like noise layered with drum sounds or something. love it. 

"did you ever try to kiss rob in the studio"

"no"

Must say Sean is quite adorable.

  On 6/5/2022 at 10:16 PM, Alcofribas said:

"did you ever try to kiss rob in the studio"

"no"

Saw that. Autechre CDs in the bin. Son's crying. Thanks Autechre.

  On 6/5/2022 at 10:21 PM, milkface said:

Saw that. Autechre CDs in the bin. Son's crying. Thanks Autechre.

cancelling my The Brothers Patreon after this

"i like the picture of you two kicking snow"

"so do i, it's very wholesome"

lush

The ice cream truck drove by and he didn't blink. 

  On 6/5/2022 at 10:28 PM, psn said:

The ice cream truck drove by and he didn't blink. 

that was rob arriving to jam

Love how he mentions Morbius and auteur cinema within 30 seconds.

  On 6/5/2022 at 10:17 PM, thefxbip said:

Must say Sean is quite adorable.

  On 6/5/2022 at 10:27 PM, Alcofribas said:

"i like the picture of you two kicking snow"

"...it's very wholesome"

that's what my ex used to say

someone do a transcript im not watching 5 hours of this

  On 6/5/2022 at 11:12 PM, KovalainenFanBoy said:

someone do a transcript im not watching 5 hours of this

it's pretty funny. i'm going to treat it like a multi part podcast. morning coffee. 

He knows me so well :^)

*achievement unlocked*

np: an hour of unreleased.........[nothing to see here]

His Norwegian pad looks nice.

  On 6/5/2022 at 11:38 PM, hello spiral said:

He knows me so well :^)

 

*achievement unlocked*

np: an hour of unreleased.........[nothing to see here]

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he's ok if you shared it with a bunch of mutants!

* raises mutated hand*

  On 6/5/2022 at 11:38 PM, hello spiral said:

He knows me so well :^)

 

*achievement unlocked*

np: an hour of unreleased.........[nothing to see here]

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next time guy smugly shows you snippets on his phone just kick him in the nuts and run with it.

Sean seems like a thoroughly lovely and well adjusted chap.  I want to go for a [Norwegian] beer with him.

Some bits of info for the lazy cunts:

- They fucked up the Primavera recording, so not sure if that will come out but they will release some probably in 2023, at the very least they would do a proper studio recording of the set and put that out.

- They have about 3.5 hours worth of material for this set, so it will likely change between dates. (They had too much time to work on it since covid)

- They switched to the new M1 Macbooks and now they flying. Can load in shit more of patches. Setup is still MaxMSP + Kenton Killamixes.

Some cool info on their live system:

- It was originally designed around/after Exai times in order to be able to do live albums. They only had it working few days before the first 2014 live set. They had a hard time handling transitions and loading/unloading shit loads of patches (well the computers had hard time) but they thought it was good enough. Everything else kind of mutated out of that.

- Sean has a bit different version of the setup than Rob. As I understood it, Sean likes his screen simple with very few visual things, so for him its a few dials and such. Rob made a mutant version out of that for himself so he has a shittons of number boxes and dials etc.

- The setup is like, 16 channels, each channel can host a sound engine, a sequencing engine and 2 FX engines. Sequencers spitting out data, sound engines taking that data and outputting audio data, and FX engines handle both data and signals. They can route these however they want.

- The system is clock synced over some midi-type bleep bloops (he didn't say exactly what it is) and it also saves the state, they can switch between master/slave so if one of the laptops would crash (which happens) the other can continue on playing and the other can reboot the laptop and join back in as a slave and the entire system would sync up.

- Controls in the system can be anything arbitrary they like really.

- The system also shares data in itself and they don´t really use the standard keyboard note on / note off thing, rather they use event duration which allows them to tell FX units and such exactly how long an event is supposed to last, also makes it easier to sync stuff.

- Sean really just prefers patching via cables and the only time he codes really is in gen / gen~. Still most of stuff was just made with standard Max/MSP objects, also big fan of mc.

- Oversteps heavily used [prob] object (first order markov chains).

- Rob has been lost for like 18 months doing jitter shit and Sean has no idea what its about but he trusts Rob and says it must be good (LOL)

- Sean likes to use jitter but more for processing matrix data.

- Thinks understanding that chaining a couple of simple processes can result in a complex output is crucial and Sean is so much more interested in that than anything else. Most of their sequencing stuff would probably be a lot easier to do than most people think.

- Sean thinks plumbing is harder than using Max and says if u want to do it and bored of DAW timeline shit just do it.

- Mosquitoes love Sean (he might be stinky)

- Incunabula felt like something Warp curated in a way that they knew what they wanted and its a bit cheesy in retrospect.

- PLUS has a few tracks that they wanted to cut, but not because they arent good, simply they would have liked to cut out the more beatless things and put them out somewhere else.

- Sean is a bit tired atm about the whole album concept and is a loads more into live things. He said it feels weird to do an album then it comes out like a year later and then they have to talk about it, while they are so over it.

- They have soundboards of Oversteps Live and it might see a light of day sometime. He also said they might put out the Max stuff once they stop using it cuz then it doesnt fucking matter (this might have been a joke).

- Sean has been living in Norway for a while and he loves it. People are just like him!

- Has not seen Morbius and won¨t.

- Sean vapes for the nico kick but its not flavored so he doesnt blow that terrible air freshener smell into others face.

- He likes nature and birds a lots, finds them inspiring.

- More live dates are in the talk.

- Does not understand why people are afraid of smell, thinks its a very human thing.

- Says fuck listening to all the idiots about mastering, mixing etc. that say always gotta cut down these frequencies etc.

Thinks taste is crucial and you should do whatever you think makes it sound good and just throw in a compressor there because someone else said that your kick always has to have a compressor or whatever.

- Likes Squarepusher.

- Has a gf and is taken : ( : )

- Likes Death Grips and OPN-s philosophy

- Probably not too much more dates this year because they didnt want to miss shows in case they need to quarantine in between.

- 12 tone equal temperament is good and gets the job done most of the times. But they have other ways of fiddling with scales in Max obvs.

Wrote this out of memory after listening to the whole thing so might not bee 100% exact but I think this was the gist of it.

Listen to it tho Sean is very wholesome : )

  On 6/5/2022 at 3:12 PM, jaderpansen said:

@digit

sure did. he's also glad for being able to listen to the set himself. that's some idm knighthood right there, grats!

yeah, that was pretty cool to hear for sure. i'm glad he liked it and that he has a copy of his own set to listen to now!

this confirms that they really didn't record this tour, which figures since yeah, they would have released it by now if they did.

this AMA was great. Sean seems like a real chill down to earth bloke. straight forward no bs. it's always interesting hearing his take on things.

  On 6/5/2022 at 11:38 PM, hello spiral said:

He knows me so well :^)

 

*achievement unlocked*

np: an hour of unreleased.........[nothing to see here]

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post or die bro

who cares what this old fart has to say. I want to hear what Machine Gun Kelly thinks. And where is Travis Barker? Or Post Malone? Unless you are hanging with those two u aint shit

''people are afraid of smell''

hahahaha