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

  On 11/8/2013 at 12:45 AM, Rob Ae said:

hey all yeah i should really bow out with my mAet.

 

fully fully appreciate all yr kind words and…. nice to be having two way realtime not just lists, or pieces taken out of us.. sorry for any q' not dealt with

(haha i don't want to see the first journo's face as they try to mine all this data u got this week).

 

jasondonervan, mbe slow don on the googledoc ! no not serious. but besides the point. just a massive thank u the WATMM, joyrex.

 

nice to meet u all too.

 

rB)

If anyone should slow down it's the 'chre! Relentless fielding of questions over these past few days... crazy stuff

Cheers Rob, it's been a pleasure.

This is like the end of the Truman show

thank you very much for this! i stopped at page 39 (!!!) because of other things, but will read it all someday. i had nothing to ask.

you guys are amazing.

oh, now that i remember, i wanted to share something. in 2009 i went to see live kraftwerk+radiohead. before kraftwerk went on stage they put some tracks and one of them was Altibzz. Hütter & co. keeping up to date with great contemporary music.

all the best.

I believe we just witnessed science.

awesometechre

Thanks again guys! I feel like a squeeing giddy school girl over all this. NEVER in a million years would have thought I would have gotten to chat with you two and be in the middle of a great conversation. Massive support!!

Thanks Rob, Sean, and Joyrex, this was so much fun! Now stay away from WATMM, lol.

Big thanks, hope they do get to doing something with their back catalog and live stuff

thanks again guys, this was pretty incredible.

it felt like some kind of narcissistic dream, sean and rob talking to us on watmm. Did this really happen? at this point i really don't know!

after party! http://plug.dj/exp-noise-weirdshit-novelty/

  On 11/8/2013 at 12:32 AM, Sean Ae said:

 

ok so

i'm gonna have to split

i just want to say cheers for asking so many mental questions

i hope some of our answers were illuminating or at least amusing

i really enjoyed it cos you asked us a lot of stuff that journos don't usually, i was hoping that would happen, watmm delivers

thanks for joining us in here Sean and Rob, was a lot of fun. And what I've just bolded may seem obvious, but I don't think many musicians have taken the opportunity that you guys have to do a fun Q&A like this, so major props. Often I'm pretty surprised by the boring nature of the interview questions you guys are usually asked by real 'journos', glad this was a good experience for you.

again

  On 11/8/2013 at 1:19 AM, jules said:

 

again

can you explain this one jules?

thanks for coming around guys. was good times

suicide anyone?

AMAEZON

Yeah, i also had nothing to ask that more deserving others wouldn't have covered anyway. But now that it's over just strolled in to say that it's incredible what these chaps did. nies wun ;-]

Thanks Sean and Rob. Much appreciated

Come visit New Zealand some time!

  On 11/8/2013 at 12:13 AM, Rob Ae said:

sean if u go, wait till 808, kraftwerk would be proud.

 

then u can go get some crashage

 

pls

he did 809 in the end

Kcinsu, mcbpete and a few others I think you were interested in their response to the physical modeling question. apparently they answered it but i never saw it and the answer is brilliant (but still oblique)

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lot of loaded questions here tbh but i'll say this
we've been blagging sounds for years, way way before we heard anyone using the term physical modelling
even just using a 202 you can make really mad 'bonk' sounds by tuning the resonance and using the res env a certain way (think of voodoo ray by gerald)

not implying we were the first at all obviously, wendy carlos and tomita were running rings round anything we did before we even knew what music was
but like, there are literally tons of ways you can make fake things out of other things. this idea that physmod is only a few techniques is a bit of a new thing really. but i guess describing those things an non-linear processes is a bit much for some people

you can make a wide array of vowel sounds using a combination of pwm and fm, but it's only considered formant synthesis is you're using a collection of bpf's

the actual list of techniques that you're supposed to learn is weirdly limited and doesn't really cover what's possible. in a lot of ways things were more interesting before it all got formalised
that's why wendy carlos and tomita are so good, cos they didn't have that list of techniques getting in the way, they found most of it thru trial and error

i like that response a lot

  On 11/8/2013 at 1:23 AM, triachus said:

 

  On 11/8/2013 at 1:19 AM, jules said:

 

again

can you explain this one jules?

 

looks like it says "the end"..?

  On 11/8/2013 at 1:17 AM, pyramidpanes said:

after party! http://plug.dj/exp-noise-weirdshit-novelty/

only 4 people showed up to the autechre afterparty and 2 were belgian

*kills himself*

What will happen to this thread? Pinned forever?

Has anyone printed it out yet?

when is this berk gonna be available