AAA - Ask Autechre Anything - Sean and Rob on WATMM!

  On 11/7/2013 at 7:05 PM, feltcher said:

Probably last post from me in this thread unless I have a flash of inspiration tonight in the pub.

 

Are there any cool places you would like to play a gig? Weird locations, cities you have never been too, famous buildings?

 

They have started doing gigs in the dungeons at Oxford Castle, this would be an awesome ae gig experience. Not sure what the acoustics are like though

 

Somewhere like Jodrell Bank would make an epic autechre experience.

 

Also PLZ get Grischa Lichtenberger or Oberman Knocks (or both) to support you on your next tour. And Rob Hall again.

 

Cheers thanks

Feltch out.

jodrell bank kind of owns really, that or blue john mines/white scar caves, and a gig inside the untersberg might be a total mindfuck

cheers

  On 11/7/2013 at 7:06 PM, soma said:

If you could give yourself some cyborg-like upgrayedd what would it be?

i'd like the same range of hearing as a cat

and the same for vision, i'd like to be able to see into the uv

Either of you suffer from migraines with an aura (that look something similar to this) -

First time I had one I thought I was going blind, now I embrace the fractalline (is that a word ?) beauty of them ... until the nausea and headache sets in that is.

my questions kinda got skpped earlier but - these I just really want to know -

1. How much unreleased material do you guys have in comparison to actually released material

2. I know you mentioned earlier that you guys aren't allowed to release under even your own names - but do you guys work separately sometimes on things that you guys don't agree on and leave them unreleased for the future?

  On 11/7/2013 at 7:12 PM, mcbpete said:

Either of you suffer from migraines with an aura (that look something similar to this) -

 

 

First time I had one I thought I was going blind, now I embrace the fractalline (is that a word) beauty of them ... until the nausea and headache sets in that is.

no, I'm lucky i don't think i ever had one

this has been so awesome and fun. when you get your live stuff worked out and come to nyc, what should i yell out to reference the epic watmm aaa?

  On 11/7/2013 at 7:12 PM, mcbpete said:

Either of you suffer from migraines with an aura (that look something similar to this) -

 

 

First time I had one I thought I was going blind, now I embrace the fractalline (is that a word) beauty of them ... until the nausea and headache sets in that is.

oh god i hate this fucking shit

I love Autechre. Does he love me back?

How was it like giving names to things? I wish I could do that. I only have a Korg Monotron and it will remain anonymous.

Thanks for this.

How much sleepy are you?

  On 11/7/2013 at 7:14 PM, Sean Ae said:

 

  On 11/7/2013 at 7:12 PM, mcbpete said:

Either of you suffer from migraines with an aura (that look something similar to this) -

 

 

First time I had one I thought I was going blind, now I embrace the fractalline (is that a word) beauty of them ... until the nausea and headache sets in that is.

 

no, I'm lucky i don't think i ever had one

 

no me neither

Do either of you have a record that you own which you enjoy so much, you have doubles (triples? etc.) of it?

oh, and add me to the list thanking you for Beaumont Hannant. seems like his stuff is hard to get a hold of, but it seems worth it.

  On 11/7/2013 at 7:14 PM, Homestar Runner said:

my questions kinda got skpped earlier but - these I just really want to know -

1. How much unreleased material do you guys have in comparison to actually released material

2. I know you mentioned earlier that you guys aren't allowed to release under even your own names - but do you guys work separately sometimes on things that you guys don't agree on and leave them unreleased for the future?

1. already answered this, sorry, long as fuck answer, cba finding it to paste

2. we keep stuff back yeah, depends, not much of that is cos of us not agreeing

I hear Guild Navigators chattering in Tankakarn. did you enjoy the original Dune?

  On 11/7/2013 at 7:15 PM, jules said:

this has been so awesome and fun. when you get your live stuff worked out and come to nyc, what should i yell out to reference the epic watmm aaa?

wow, dunno. whats most universal here after all this?? bearing in mind now though there are more guests on here than users, so there might be some lurkers using this hallowed chant without having earned the pleasure.

  On 11/7/2013 at 7:16 PM, jasondonervan said:

Do either of you have a record that you own which you enjoy so much, you have doubles (triples? etc.) of it?

yeah loads,

PE

mantronix

actually mostly hip hop

  On 11/7/2013 at 7:18 PM, lumakey said:

I hear Guild Navigators chattering in Tankakarn. did you enjoy the original Dune?

yeah Dune, i did, i think i was too young to criticise it so i was lucky to have it memorised as perfect

  On 11/7/2013 at 7:19 PM, Rob Ae said:

 

  On 11/7/2013 at 7:15 PM, jules said:

this has been so awesome and fun. when you get your live stuff worked out and come to nyc, what should i yell out to reference the epic watmm aaa?

wow, dunno. whats most universal here after all this?? bearing in mind now though there are more guests on here than users, so there might be some lurkers using this hallowed chant without having earned the pleasure.

 

ah, fair point. shit.

Hmm, maybe do a break in the middle of the set to do body part naming requests?

How bout Winterbottom, in reference to something universal ;)

  On 11/7/2013 at 7:18 PM, lumakey said:

I hear Guild Navigators chattering in Tankakarn. did you enjoy the original Dune?

yeah i love it but that cut in the middle - i hope one day the whole thing comes out

  On 11/7/2013 at 7:21 PM, nizzleone said:

Hmm, maybe do a break in the middle of the set to do body part naming requests?

lel

  On 11/7/2013 at 7:00 PM, jasondonervan said:

 

  On 11/7/2013 at 6:59 PM, Sean Ae said:

 

  On 11/7/2013 at 6:58 PM, jasondonervan said:

Bumpage:

 

If you were given the option to select one of your tracks to go on a golden record* to be beamed into space, which would you choose?

 

 

*Incomplete without surface noise

 

yeah this is a variation of the faves question

i dunno man, fuck, you decide

 

Your golden record track will be Drane 3

 

aye good choice

  On 11/7/2013 at 7:16 PM, jasondonervan said:

Do either of you have a record that you own which you enjoy so much, you have doubles (triples? etc.) of it?

yeah quite a few

some were accidental, happens when i'm on tour

  On 11/7/2013 at 7:21 PM, nizzleone said:

Hmm, maybe do a break in the middle of the set to do body part naming requests?

argh lol

  On 11/7/2013 at 6:51 PM, Rob Ae said:

 

  On 11/7/2013 at 6:37 PM, Hexahedral said:

This one is probably difficult so just whatever comes to the fore of your minds at first: What are some of your favourite pieces of euphoria inducing music (considering that different things are euphoric for different heads)?

isoprophlex - afx

mountain goat - amorphous androgynous

polynomial-c - afx

circles vicious mix - john & julie

temple - jon hopkins

jungle - jungle wonz

allowance - isolee

work harder/work softer - perc

no.3 - VA chain reaction

X2 - electric soul

indicatif roissy - parmegiani

from the hame hill - brian eno

untrue - burial

 

i could go on and on, mbe

all diff contexts but pretty much euphoric to me

 

  On 11/7/2013 at 6:42 PM, Sean Ae said:

 

  On 11/7/2013 at 6:37 PM, Hexahedral said:

This one is probably difficult so just whatever comes to the fore of your minds at first: What are some of your favourite pieces of euphoria inducing music (considering that different things are euphoric for different heads)?

 

'now this is fun' by depeche mode always gets me in a really up state, but it's not really euphoric in the way most people mean (i.e. 'too many fizzy synths')

 

Thank you :) [Also for this inspiring thread. I have learned a lot!]

On the subject of Dune, y'all mention Jodorowsky...what do y'all think about Holy Mountain?

Gotta fav by him? (remember you mentioning a collab w/ moebius)

Thanks, Rob and Sean, for the inspiration and for continuing to raise the bar with every release. The wealth of information here is tremendous. Thanks for giving us all a little peek behind the curtain for a few days.

I noticed a mention of physical modeling and how you said you can achieve the same sorts of formant / vocal sounds using things like band-pass filters and pulse width modulation. I was listening to "Osla for n" again (incredible) and thought of the formant growling throughout the track, later being gated into more of a 4/4 groove. Is this the type of formant control you were referring to, as something you can do in Max without needing a physical modeling synth, or was much of the formant shaping of the sound already present in the source material? My apologies if I'm interpreting what I'm hearing incorrectly.

Any other question I could think of has already been answered, and I apologize if this was already touched-on. Thanks again, guys! I'll be reading through this thread for days.

Jon B (@RheyneMusic)