Exai cover is a crime

Best thing about the Quaristice cover was the special edition.

WHATM

 

Edited February 16, 2013 by disoriental express

  On 2/16/2013 at 2:33 AM, lumpenprol said:

Yeah, the ae covers I like best were not done by tDR. I think Confield, Draft, and EP7 were the best.

100% agree

Also agree that Chiastic Slide and cichlisuite are among the only worth wild things tDR have done.

Envane was a good cover too.

 

Also on the notion of non-tDR covers being better, Untilted's cover art beats anything that came after it for sure.

  On 2/15/2013 at 11:41 PM, triachus said:

but TDR did mention on facebook that there was some thought behind the cover and they encouraged people to figure it out

I thought it might be related to Conway's Game Of Life, don't know if I came up with that myself or read it somewhere though.

  On 2/15/2013 at 9:21 PM, beerwolf said:

Doesn't bother me at all.

  On 12/14/2012 at 9:45 PM, Miblo said:

Exai pattern for use in GIMP: exai-pattern.png

 

121×121 tile of Exai pattern: exai-121x121.png

 

Regarding Conway's Game of Life, the initial Exai population of 53 cells lives for 666 generations before settling at a population of 98, with: 12 blocks, 2 boats, 1 ship, 1 pond, 1 hive, 5 blinkers and 1 glider escaping north-west.

 

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I thought Autechre did their own cover for Chiastic Slide? I read it in some interview. May be mixed up on tha one.

 

I agree...best covers are Chiastic Slide, EP7, Confield, Draft....

  On 2/17/2013 at 2:54 PM, Lianne said:

I thought Autechre did their own cover for Chiastic Slide? I read it in some interview. May be mixed up on tha one.

 

yeah, mixed up I think - it was tDR that did Chiastic Slide.

 

I still don't see the architecture in it... I think I'm being thick there though.

yes, a crime of passion

tDR def did Chiastic Slide.

 

There is a really cool chapter in the Warp book about the art of Autechre.

Waiting for the vinyl for a final decision about Exai cover but I can be sure that holding it in my hands will not change the fact that Untilted and Draft have about a million times more suitable cover art...IMO.

Edited February 17, 2013 by xox

  On 2/17/2013 at 3:19 PM, oscillik said:

 

  On 2/17/2013 at 2:54 PM, Lianne said:

I thought Autechre did their own cover for Chiastic Slide? I read it in some interview. May be mixed up on tha one.

yeah, mixed up I think - it was tDR that did Chiastic Slide.

 

I still don't see the architecture in it... I think I'm being thick there though.

 

The Envane cover is a heavily abstracted version of Frank Lloyd Wright's "Falling Water". The Chiastic Slide artwork is an even more heavily abstracted version from what I can tell.

  On 2/16/2013 at 2:33 AM, lumpenprol said:

Confield cover perfectly suits the music imo.

 

Yeah, the ae covers I like best were not done by tDR. I think Confield, Draft, and EP7 were the best.

 

Of tDR covers, I think Tri Rep and Chiastic were best. I'm guessing they also did Cichli Suite? That was kinda nice.

 

Did not like quaristice, oversteps or mot covers much at all though. Quaristice was at least interesting with the typeface thing.

 

lol but yeah

 

draft is fucking flawless... it's like lebbeus woods and zaha thrown into maya or something i dnno

  On 2/17/2013 at 6:38 PM, six said:

 

  On 2/17/2013 at 3:19 PM, oscillik said:

 

  On 2/17/2013 at 2:54 PM, Lianne said:

I thought Autechre did their own cover for Chiastic Slide? I read it in some interview. May be mixed up on tha one.

yeah, mixed up I think - it was tDR that did Chiastic Slide.

 

I still don't see the architecture in it... I think I'm being thick there though.

 

The Envane cover is a heavily abstracted version of Frank Lloyd Wright's "Falling Water". The Chiastic Slide artwork is an even more heavily abstracted version from what I can tell.

has anyone done an overlay, of a source picture with the artwork? i really am quite stupid here.

 

i never could do those magic eye things, either

Autechre aren't renowned for their artwork - in fact I think they make a deliberate effort to subdue it. Even their live shows have absolutely no visual aspect. I can't think of any decent cover art over the eleven albums and ep's. Amber and Draft were OK.

  On 2/17/2013 at 4:31 PM, xox said:

Waiting for the vinyl for a final decision about Exai cover but I can be sure that holding it in my hands will not change the fact that Untilted and Draft have about a million times more suitable cover art...IMO.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention Untilted! I didn't used to like it much, but now when I see/hold the album (before blasting it in the car) I think it's one if their best covers too. And it seems to perfectly fit the music, as EP7, Confield and Draft also do.

 

But I understand that they play down the artwork in a way, as poster above said, and that there is no conscious aim to 'fit' the music. It is visual music, though! And some of the covers do happen to fit the sonics.

Edited February 17, 2013 by Lianne

  On 2/17/2013 at 8:00 PM, oscillik said:

 

  On 2/17/2013 at 6:38 PM, six said:

 

  On 2/17/2013 at 3:19 PM, oscillik said:

 

  On 2/17/2013 at 2:54 PM, Lianne said:

I thought Autechre did their own cover for Chiastic Slide? I read it in some interview. May be mixed up on tha one.

yeah, mixed up I think - it was tDR that did Chiastic Slide.

 

I still don't see the architecture in it... I think I'm being thick there though.

 

The Envane cover is a heavily abstracted version of Frank Lloyd Wright's "Falling Water". The Chiastic Slide artwork is an even more heavily abstracted version from what I can tell.

has anyone done an overlay, of a source picture with the artwork? i really am quite stupid here.

 

i never could do those magic eye things, either

its an abstracted drawing of something like this view, you can clearly see the dominant lines of the eaves. the crosses all over the envane + chiastic packaging also seem to be a reference to notation markers on an architectural drawings

i wonder how that all came about. that's such an iconic image to work from.

i know... it's kinda lame, couldn't they pick a like more hipster building

I get that the Chiastic artwork is related to envane, but looking at the cover and flipping through the booklet I just can't see the fallingwater resemblance (for chiastic).

I think the relation between the chiastic/envane covers mirrors the relation between the music beautifully

I like Cavity Job

 

*runs*

Someone asked...

Only legit cover color:

 

OK, Ae did never use that. Maybe the cover of their last album should be unicolor warpcolor.

 

And yes, I don't like the Exai cover as well.

Edited February 19, 2013 by Guest

I must confess, I had a lovely moment with Exai the other night where it clicked in a new way, and I kept seeing the cover (or designs like the cover) flashing in my mind's eye as the music played. I now think I really fits (but I didn't before.) certain tracks 'look' like thos hiphpppy, weird, ominous black grey squares.