Aphex Twin 1997 article about Aphex Twin talking about programming his own software

http://home.swipnet.se/~w-86078/aphextwin/Articles/stillhacking.htm

Seems pretty interesting, sorry if you know it already, but a quick search in the forum showed you may not. I became aware of the article by reading about this book, which seems kinda interesting too http://createdigitalmusic.com/2011/12/a-reader-in-electronic-dance-musics-history-and-creation-now-available/#comments

cheers, p.

The guy is the smartest guy that ever lived bro, he helped programmed software that runs the LHC.

GOD IN FLESH, WE ARE NOT WORTHY!!!

If only he'd known how prescient he was performing with only a laptop back in 1997; I'm sure he knew exactly where the future was headed though ;)

Seriously, is there something Mr. James can´t do?

Not lie.

  On 12/19/2011 at 12:50 PM, YO303 said:

The guy is the smartest guy that ever lived bro, he helped programmed software that runs the LHC.

 

GOD IN FLESH, WE ARE NOT WORTHY!!!

I dunno, the other day I saw Brian Cox (who really did help out at CERN) performing a song with Tim Minchin, after explaining to everyone there what the Higgs boson is. It'd be pretty hard to beat that...

I program my home computer, beam myself into the future.

  On 12/19/2011 at 2:33 PM, ZoeB said:

  On 12/19/2011 at 12:50 PM, YO303 said:

The guy is the smartest guy that ever lived bro, he helped programmed software that runs the LHC.

 

GOD IN FLESH, WE ARE NOT WORTHY!!!

 

I dunno, the other day I saw Brian Cox (who really did help out at CERN) performing a song with Tim Minchin, after explaining to everyone there what the Higgs boson is. It'd be pretty hard to beat that...

What is the Higgs boson

  On 12/19/2011 at 2:11 PM, mischjok said:

Seriously, is there something Mr. James can´t do?

Bake better cakes than my mum. She's a genuis and should be known across the globe. A bit like Richard she don't care much for the limelight so quietly gets on with it, giving her fine baking to her little fanclub. Fact.

  On 12/19/2011 at 4:08 PM, mischjok said:

What is the Higgs boson

The particulars have escaped me, but the gist is that scientists observed how the universe works at a pretty fundamental level (so-called elementary particles because they apparently can't be broken down any further, although it wouldn't be the first time someone claimed to have found something atomic, so to speak... although an atom is certainly the smallest amount of any given element you can have), and there was some stuff that was unaccounted for, and someone (actually, several groups of people independently) worked out some equations that did account for everything, based on the assumption that something existed which hasn't yet been found. As two of these guys were called Higgs and Bose, this hypothetical not-yet-found thing got named after them. Last Tuesday, CERN used the LHC (Atlas and CMS in particular) to rule out some places where this Higgs boson definitely isn't, and it looks like they've found where it probably is. (By "places," I mean places on a graph, not physical places.) They're going to do more experiments next year to determine a bit more conclusively whether they've actually found it.

Basically, it looks like on the 13th December 2011, we finally proved an idea some people had in 1964, about how the universe fundamentally works. I feel kind of honoured that I happened to be in a theatre that night, watching Brian Cox explain all this stuff, have a live chat with some other scientists at CERN (even if all that managed to make it over the Internet was brief snippets of sentinces like "oh-- ah-- e-- oh-- breakfast," but the amount of alcohol they were getting through was a pretty clear indicator of how much they were celebrating an important, historic occasion!) and then go on to play the piano for Tim Minchin's Christmas song. All in all, it was a pretty good day.

Atoms.

  On 12/19/2011 at 10:22 AM, pierlu said:

http://home.swipnet....tillhacking.htm

there are 10 tracks on the rdj album

not 15

Americans vs. The Metric System.

  On 12/19/2011 at 5:26 PM, LUDD said:

  On 12/19/2011 at 10:22 AM, pierlu said:

http://home.swipnet....tillhacking.htm

 

 

there are 10 tracks on the rdj album

 

not 15

On the US release there is... the Girl/Boy EP is bundled with it as it was not released in the US.

Oh, and the origin of this article (online) was originally on Aphex Start (run by Chris Miller) in 1998, then re-posted on aphextwin.nu (hence the small type and aphex logo background).

Thanks for posting man, very interesting to read ; D

yo p, pretty cool to hear this geeking out about renoise, nearly 15 yrs ago now. love ICBYD so yeah, good read.

actually there was an interview I read ages ago, that Rich played live this program he made that would automatically generate beats and melodies and the crowd tried dancing to it

does anyone have an mp3 or anything of it?

We are not worthy

  On 12/20/2011 at 12:06 PM, TNT said:

 

does anyone have an mp3 or anything of it?

this sounds like it could be it, what do you think?

Richard did talk a lot of BS in the 90's

  On 12/20/2011 at 2:34 AM, iep said:

pretty cool to hear this geeking out about renoise reCycle, nearly 15 yrs ago now.

fix'd

i think he is full of shit

rdj album sounds anything but digital

all of those synths sound analog and the drums sound like they are from an mpc

he might have used a mac to drive them but i doubt he did that album all inside the box

it sounds way to un digital

  On 12/24/2011 at 1:59 AM, yikes said:

i think he is full of shit

rdj album sounds anything but digital

all of those synths sound analog and the drums sound like they are from an mpc

he might have used a mac to drive them but i doubt he did that album all inside the box

it sounds way to un digital

I agree with you, God in Flesh AKA Afx would never use computer software to make music, his soul too pure.

  On 12/24/2011 at 1:59 AM, yikes said:

rdj album sounds anything but digital... the drums sound like they are from an mpc

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