Autechre Sean talks on technology at The Simply Superior podcast

  On 3/14/2012 at 12:18 AM, mcbpete said:

  On 3/14/2012 at 12:07 AM, sirch said:

I would listen to this, if i could be fucked to download iTunes onto this PC.

 

is it good, tho, really?

 

somebody stick it on youtube, or summink...........??

I posted the mp3 of it on page 1 innit

oh shit! i didn't see that. thanks Pete.

  On 3/14/2012 at 12:15 AM, sweepstakes said:

It is good. But I have enjoyed just about every interview with Sean; I find he consistently has insightful stuff to say. So take my opinion with a grain of salt: I am biased.

no, you're right. he is interesting to listen to.

that was really cool & interesting. the funny bit is that Ae & H3O just released that DVD thing which is totally abstract (well you can argue that music is abstract by definition but) while having a great chat about well Iceland, formats & programming.

funny that they dont really dig CDs, i love vinyls but i just love the CD format, i cant say the plastic boxes are nice but at least (vs digipack) they have a longer life & loads of digital (electronic) music sounds perfect on it.

Don't understand what's wrong with CDs...really. Yes, the vinyl sleeves are better but the 'correctness' of the sound is inferior in comparison with CDs and I just can't stand to watch degradation of the vinyl with every listening. I'm to anal for that.

Ups...War?!

I think they (mainly Sean) were saying they disliked the actual physical aesthetic of the compact disc rather than the technology/quality behind the format.

Vinyl for the post-electrical future!

  On 3/14/2012 at 3:47 PM, sweepstakes said:

Vinyl for the post-electrical future!

I have

"Packagin' can be really lush."

i think he's quoting me there...

So when he says he's spent a year programming, what do you think he means? Just creating sounds and small sequences? How far off a new album are we then? Another year maybe?

Computer programming.

  On 3/22/2012 at 5:39 PM, psn said:

Computer programming.

ha ha, cheers for the illumination...

  On 3/17/2012 at 8:22 PM, Alcofribas said:

i think he's quoting me there...

lol

HAHA this is hilarious so far. Glad I decided to fire this up.

  On 3/22/2012 at 5:36 PM, BUNKUM said:

So when he says he's spent a year programming, what do you think he means? Just creating sounds and small sequences? How far off a new album are we then? Another year maybe?

well, if i remember correctly he said that he only "started making tracks again" rather recently

  On 3/22/2012 at 5:36 PM, BUNKUM said:

So when he says he's spent a year programming, what do you think he means? Just creating sounds and small sequences? How far off a new album are we then? Another year maybe?

Most likely he's been working on programs to further ae's status as Simply The Best; Around.

  On 3/22/2012 at 5:36 PM, BUNKUM said:

So when he says he's spent a year programming, what do you think he means?

SuperCollider or Csound or Max/MSP...? We can't be sure. But he mentioned something like ''quite...learning curve'' so I guess it's NOT the Max.

I wouldn't call Csound or Max/MSP "programming". The former, text-based patching, and the later, advanced graphical patching. SC is just barely programming. I don't think Sean would call these programming either.

Based on the conversation I think he is either talking about Objective C or Java.

  On 3/22/2012 at 10:26 PM, sweepstakes said:

I wouldn't call Csound or Max/MSP "programming".

Don't understand why not?!

Max is a graphical object oriented programming language.

Patching = Programming

Kinda sorta.

How do you do a for loop with a "graphical programming language"? Better yet, tell me how to you interpolate adjacent array values when using a phasor to read/write values from said array when the rate of the phasor is not such that it would be accurate to read or write only a single value to the array during each sample/processing cycle. I would sincerely love to know because this snag stopped my work on a Reaktor patch.

This kind of situation is the reason I don't consider Max/MSP, Reaktor, etc. real programming. There are problems you simply can't solve, problems that to me seem perfectly reasonable within the domain.

yeah, sorry but Max/MSP and csound are definitely considered programming.

That is like saying that C++ and Delphi isn't programming.

  On 3/22/2012 at 11:40 PM, oscillik said:

That is like saying that C++ and Delphi isn't programming.

LOL ok now you're being ridiculous.

Well I obviously disagree with you two, but I'm not gonna split hairs, I'm getting too old for this shit. It frustrated the hell out of me trying to do the above and it probably wouldn't be too much of a problem if they were real programming languages where I could run through a for loop between processing cycles (edit) SAMPLES . But they're not and I couldn't.

Right http://rendell-attic.org/gol/tm.htm it's all real programming http://jonripley.com/brainfuck/games/ doesn't matter what you use.