squarepusher Jenkinson discusses recording d'Demonstrator

Just saw this on the Dummy website. Very enlightening:

http://www.dummymag.com/features/2010/11/08/technique-squarepusher-s-cryptic-motion/

What a guy. Can't imagine Ae or Boards ever writing something like this ;-)

  On 11/9/2010 at 2:41 PM, Lucy Faringold said:

Just saw this on the Dummy website. Very enlightening:

 

http://www.dummymag.com/features/2010/11/08/technique-squarepusher-s-cryptic-motion/

 

What a guy. Can't imagine Ae or Boards ever writing something like this ;-)

Wow! Thank you very much! Enlightening indeed.

while it's cool that he's namedropping and termdropping, some of it is a bit obvious. like the following

  Squarepusher article said:

All elements were recorded to my trusty multitrack tape player, a Tascam MSR16. Then the track was mixed through my Euphonix CS3000 console. Automation on mix down was achieved by hooking up various mix parameters via 14bit midi controller messages to the QY700, which was locked via MTC to the tape.

really? because i'm pretty sure you can synchronise MIDI equipment and tape via the amount of times an argument kicks off between a softsynth enthusiast and a hardware enthusiast.

also, the following is the best quote from that article

  Squarepusher article said:

The two track master was recorded digitally using the A/D converters of a Neve 1073DPD running at 96khz

lol

Much respect to tom. What i think is wicked about this is that although mystery and intrigue cause hype and can be interesting in itself, doing stuff like this is just as bloody good and i don't think any less of him for it.

Wow, he really knows his stuff, had no idea it took that much work to make Cryptic Motion.

  On 11/9/2010 at 3:02 PM, oscillik said:

while it's cool that he's namedropping and termdropping, some of it is a bit obvious. like the following

 

  Squarepusher article said:

All elements were recorded to my trusty multitrack tape player, a Tascam MSR16. Then the track was mixed through my Euphonix CS3000 console. Automation on mix down was achieved by hooking up various mix parameters via 14bit midi controller messages to the QY700, which was locked via MTC to the tape.

really? because i'm pretty sure you can synchronise MIDI equipment and tape via the amount of times an argument kicks off between a softsynth enthusiast and a hardware enthusiast.

 

also, the following is the best quote from that article

 

  Squarepusher article said:

The two track master was recorded digitally using the A/D converters of a Neve 1073DPD running at 96khz

lol

  On 11/9/2010 at 4:12 PM, azatoth said:

  On 11/9/2010 at 3:02 PM, oscillik said:

while it's cool that he's namedropping and termdropping, some of it is a bit obvious. like the following

 

  Squarepusher article said:

All elements were recorded to my trusty multitrack tape player, a Tascam MSR16. Then the track was mixed through my Euphonix CS3000 console. Automation on mix down was achieved by hooking up various mix parameters via 14bit midi controller messages to the QY700, which was locked via MTC to the tape.

really? because i'm pretty sure you can synchronise MIDI equipment and tape via the amount of times an argument kicks off between a softsynth enthusiast and a hardware enthusiast.

 

also, the following is the best quote from that article

 

  Squarepusher article said:

The two track master was recorded digitally using the A/D converters of a Neve 1073DPD running at 96khz

lol

  On 11/9/2010 at 4:52 PM, oscillik said:

  On 11/9/2010 at 4:12 PM, azatoth said:

  On 11/9/2010 at 3:02 PM, oscillik said:

while it's cool that he's namedropping and termdropping, some of it is a bit obvious. like the following

 

  Squarepusher article said:

All elements were recorded to my trusty multitrack tape player, a Tascam MSR16. Then the track was mixed through my Euphonix CS3000 console. Automation on mix down was achieved by hooking up various mix parameters via 14bit midi controller messages to the QY700, which was locked via MTC to the tape.

really? because i'm pretty sure you can synchronise MIDI equipment and tape via the amount of times an argument kicks off between a softsynth enthusiast and a hardware enthusiast.

 

also, the following is the best quote from that article

 

  Squarepusher article said:

The two track master was recorded digitally using the A/D converters of a Neve 1073DPD running at 96khz

lol

  Squarepusher article said:

In the final mix down, the 909 bass drum and snare subtly compress pretty much every instrument.

Thus we have solved the mystery of teh ed banger interest.

  On 11/9/2010 at 5:13 PM, azatoth said:

  On 11/9/2010 at 4:52 PM, oscillik said:

  On 11/9/2010 at 4:12 PM, azatoth said:

  On 11/9/2010 at 3:02 PM, oscillik said:

while it's cool that he's namedropping and termdropping, some of it is a bit obvious. like the following

 

  Squarepusher article said:

All elements were recorded to my trusty multitrack tape player, a Tascam MSR16. Then the track was mixed through my Euphonix CS3000 console. Automation on mix down was achieved by hooking up various mix parameters via 14bit midi controller messages to the QY700, which was locked via MTC to the tape.

really? because i'm pretty sure you can synchronise MIDI equipment and tape via the amount of times an argument kicks off between a softsynth enthusiast and a hardware enthusiast.

 

also, the following is the best quote from that article

 

  Squarepusher article said:

The two track master was recorded digitally using the A/D converters of a Neve 1073DPD running at 96khz

lol

brilliant

  Quote

As is the case for most of the songs, we had his drum kit rigged up to trigger a Roland TR909

I KNEW IT !

Very interesting read, I still convinced he recorded it with a band.

  On 11/9/2010 at 3:59 PM, vasio said:

Wow, he really knows his stuff, had no idea it took that much work to make Cryptic Motion.

You don't have much time "in studio", do you?

I thought that the point of the article was to obfuscate the process through the use of extreme verbal saturation. I mean I'm sure all those 'tech' words would make any Jonny Mp3 say "whoa". But really, any skilled writer could use overt loquaciousness to complicate the simplest task. I mean does d'Demonstrator make one want to defenestrate one's person, or jump out a window, right?

  On 11/9/2010 at 5:37 PM, acidphakist said:

  On 11/9/2010 at 3:59 PM, vasio said:

Wow, he really knows his stuff, had no idea it took that much work to make Cryptic Motion.

 

You don't have much time "in studio", do you?

Replace "much" with "none" and you got it. I don't make music in any form but I'm interested in the process.

tx81z represent

  On 11/9/2010 at 6:05 PM, thepilot said:

I thought that the point of the article was to obfuscate the process through the use of extreme verbal saturation. I mean I'm sure all those 'tech' words would make any Jonny Mp3 say "whoa". But really, any skilled writer could use overt loquaciousness to complicate the simplest task. I mean does d'Demonstrator make one want to defenestrate one's person, or jump out a window, right?

It may sound complicated to the layman but if you analyse it he's actually being very clear and to the point as to how he went about laying down the sounds. The terminology will be baffling to non-musos but the language itself is straightforward and concise. There's no obfuscation at play - quite the opposite in fact.

  On 11/9/2010 at 7:39 PM, Lucy Faringold said:

  On 11/9/2010 at 6:05 PM, thepilot said:

I thought that the point of the article was to obfuscate the process through the use of extreme verbal saturation. I mean I'm sure all those 'tech' words would make any Jonny Mp3 say "whoa". But really, any skilled writer could use overt loquaciousness to complicate the simplest task. I mean does d'Demonstrator make one want to defenestrate one's person, or jump out a window, right?

 

It may sound complicated to the layman but if you analyse it he's actually being very clear and to the point as to how he went about laying down the sounds. The terminology will be baffling to non-musos but the language itself is straightforward and concise. There's no obfuscation at play - quite the opposite in fact.

Yeah, and any 'jonny mp3' who is a fan of squarepusher and heard or read an interview by him will know he is always like this. where from my point of view, there is no hidden agenda but to maybe perhaps sound like he knows what he is going on about, which he clearly does.

  On 11/9/2010 at 2:41 PM, Lucy Faringold said:

Just saw this on the Dummy website. Very enlightening:

 

http://www.dummymag.com/features/2010/11/08/technique-squarepusher-s-cryptic-motion/

 

What a guy. Can't imagine Ae or Boards ever writing something like this ;-)

Nice one.

Lovely

:D

i don't understand everything there but that's cool that he is that candid about the process.

also, didn't we not know for awhile if he owned an eventide? now we know...

  On 11/10/2010 at 12:34 AM, yek said:

i don't understand everything there but that's cool that he is that candid about the process.

 

also, didn't we not know for awhile if he owned an eventide? now we know...

yes, since go plastic

  On 11/9/2010 at 7:39 PM, Lucy Faringold said:

It may sound complicated to the layman but if you analyse it he's actually being very clear and to the point as to how he went about laying down the sounds. The terminology will be baffling to non-musos but the language itself is straightforward and concise. There's no obfuscation at play - quite the opposite in fact.

exactly

pretty nice considering that cryptic motion is the tune of the album... still the writing kind of reeks of im such a genius and studio wiz

  On 11/9/2010 at 6:08 PM, vasio said:

Replace "much" with "none" and you got it. I don't make music in any form but I'm interested in the process.

The mind boggles.

Is there a problem, officer?

'Pusherman also talks about his sound in the new issue of XLR8R:

http://issuu.com/xlr8r/docs/xlr8r_136

It's on pg 54.

Seems to imply that an extended interview is up at http://www.xlr8r.com/136extras but that link is dead right now. Might pop up in due course I guess.