You know you've been listening to too much Autechre when...

...you start to enjoy the rhythmic noises your dishwasher makes as it's running.

I just recently recorded some of the noises coming out of my dishwasher. Nice splishy sploshy sounds with switching mechanics and humming motors.

Anyway, you know when you've been listening too much minimalist music when you don't realize that the track ended 5 minutes ago and you're just listening to the hum of a cooling fan.

True story.

^^ that happened to me as recently as two days ago.

i also remember hearing a boards of canada track while standing in front of the microwave really stoned back in high school. if i remember correctly, i was heating up some tortilla chips in m and m's.. wasn't as quite good as i was hoping.

I had perlence subrange 6-36 on repeat one evening, think it played through 3 times.

.... you try to make a song using only Morton Subotnick and Wendy Carlos chopped up samples and it ends up sounding like Exai

AEXAISUBOTNICK(roughdraft)_01.mp3

..snday, thhursday, fhriday, shaturday

  On 4/25/2013 at 6:59 AM, Torchiest said:

...you start to enjoy the rhythmic noises your dishwasher makes as it's running.

HAHAHA!

  On 4/25/2013 at 12:05 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

.... you try to make a song using only Morton Subotnick and Wendy Carlos chopped up samples and it ends up sounding like Exai

 

AEXAISUBOTNICK(roughdraft)_01.mp3

Man this sounds f___a_n______t___A_______________s___________t__i_C

  On 4/25/2013 at 12:05 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

.... you try to make a song using only Morton Subotnick and Wendy Carlos chopped up samples and it ends up sounding like Exai

 

AEXAISUBOTNICK(roughdraft)_01.mp3

really nice!

  On 4/25/2013 at 12:05 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

.... you try to make a song using only Morton Subotnick and Wendy Carlos chopped up samples and it ends up sounding like Exai

 

AEXAISUBOTNICK(roughdraft)_01.mp3

Yeah I enjoyed this too.

How much Ae is "too much"? I've been a fan since '97, so..

  On 4/25/2013 at 7:19 PM, Aefx said:

 

  On 4/25/2013 at 12:05 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

.... you try to make a song using only Morton Subotnick and Wendy Carlos chopped up samples and it ends up sounding like Exai

 

AEXAISUBOTNICK(roughdraft)_01.mp3

really nice!

 

seconded

  On 4/25/2013 at 7:27 PM, Salvatorin said:

 

  On 4/25/2013 at 7:19 PM, Aefx said:

 

  On 4/25/2013 at 12:05 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

.... you try to make a song using only Morton Subotnick and Wendy Carlos chopped up samples and it ends up sounding like Exai

 

AEXAISUBOTNICK(roughdraft)_01.mp3

really nice!

 

seconded

 

Doubled

  On 12/20/2007 at 8:02 AM, Salvatorin said:

Dear Autechre,

 

It seems I am starting to experience something I have never experienced before...

 

All the things that I'm constantly bombarded with by your music seem to be opening my mind to the beauty of sound, all sounds! I find myself marveling at the unique beauty of like...say...tapping a pane of glass...or swishing around water...or scratching with my fingernails on a smooth surface.

 

Its like banging something is no longer just banging something...its a strange and interesting waveform, just waiting for me to aurally dissect it.

 

Or like just a second ago, I went up to this aluminum lamp bell thingy, and I just tapped it. The sound produced was so rich and layered. There was the tap sound, which was the force, but then it had a high tonal 2nd chord ringing above it, and a bassy rumble deep down.

 

These all form intricate images in my mind...kind of like little diagrams displaying each part of the sound...same as listening to your music.

 

I can get distracted with this kind of stuff at any time, especially when I am surrounded by interesting-looking objects (that I may tap) and quite truthfully, they are much more interesting than paying attention to whatever is deemed important.

 

Now its obvious I am probably just experiencing severe ADHD, but I think these feelings are a good thing. And I would have to say that its definitely from listening to your beautiful music.

 

So basically, listening to your music has made me into a freak obsessed with interesting percussive sounds, and their potential for rhythmic sequencing/and or tonal manipulation And I am goddamn proud of it.

 

Thank you so much,

Salvatorin

  On 4/25/2013 at 12:05 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

.... you try to make a song using only Morton Subotnick and Wendy Carlos chopped up samples and it ends up sounding like Exai

 

AEXAISUBOTNICK(roughdraft)_01.mp3

Wow, I would love to hear a full version and more like this.

sweet fancy jahbalon please keep going with that

  On 4/25/2013 at 6:59 AM, Torchiest said:

...you start to enjoy the rhythmic noises your dishwasher makes as it's running.

this happened to me a couple years ago.

definitely a sound of too much ae. I mean I haven't stopped tho lol

I think I got into ae because they sounded like my washing machine tbqh

my dishwasher doesn't like when I call her that

my dishwasher doesn't sound like autechre

my dishwasher doesn't like autechre

...when all other electronic music starts to sound cheesy

  On 4/25/2013 at 12:05 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

.... you try to make a song using only Morton Subotnick and Wendy Carlos chopped up samples and it ends up sounding like Exai

 

AEXAISUBOTNICK(roughdraft)_01.mp3

looping this for 10 minutes

n1

... my usual daily beat-boxing and/or tapping, whistling, mouth-noises, etc., improvisations become so erratic that I start scaring the cats, my family, and myself. An early sign is when I imagine I'm recognizing complex, grandiose patterns in the embarrassing random gibberish and noise I produce. :)

My spotify yearly report indicated that I listen to Autechre more than any other artist in Winter.