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

  On 11/8/2013 at 1:43 AM, StephenG said:

 

  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"..?

 

 

pretty sure it says thank you in exai typography

Edited November 8, 2013 by baph

Just wanted to officially say thanks in this thread before it gets locked.

Hope the guys stick around/come back soon.

  On 11/8/2013 at 2:02 AM, baph said:

 

  On 11/8/2013 at 1:43 AM, StephenG said:

 

 

  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"..?

pretty sure it says thank you in exai typography

  On 11/8/2013 at 2:02 AM, baph said:

 

  On 11/8/2013 at 1:43 AM, StephenG said:

 

  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"..?

 

 

pretty sure it says thank you in exai typography

 

 

"Exai", the font.lol

thanks, Rob and Sean. pretty sure this is the best thing to happen in WATMM history.

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

 

nedipot

 

yeah self-waterboarding lol

nah i don't trust it man

 

 

smart man, you just avoided possible death by brain eating amoeba:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-57499285-10391704/tap-water-in-neti-pots-behind-two-brain-eating-amoeba-deaths-in-2011-investigation-finds/

i dont like the color, it looks like when you highlight text/pictures, my brain is telling me to click away from it to unhighlight it.

nobody asked them how they like their eggs

Fucking saved.

not being an Indian pro, I fucked myself up for a few weeks after using netipot. I felt like there was some water trapped in my ear or something, really not a good feeling

  On 11/8/2013 at 2:23 AM, Deer said:

i dont like the color, it looks like when you highlight text/pictures, my brain is telling me to click away from it to unhighlight it.

don't you freeze in headlights?

 

what are you referring to?

the blue exai thing

ah. yea I just sampled watmm colors since I had no idea what scheme to use.

but good looking out deer. appreciate it.

  On 11/8/2013 at 12:46 AM, laloslalos said:

It was a big surprise thanks Autechre, and remember we are waiting for you in Mexico

  On 11/8/2013 at 1:42 AM, John Ehrlichman said:

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

Thank you, I missed that response.

 

To Sean and Rob: I cannot thank you enough for doing this.

 

To Joyrex: ditto!

  On 11/7/2013 at 9:43 PM, Rob Ae said:

 

  On 11/7/2013 at 9:18 PM, vokasgrota said:

 

Hi!

 

almost 150 pages and still no love for..

 

Qebrus

 

or

 

Valance Drakes

 

Q: any thoughts on Bitwig?

hahah yeah these SC spams go straight into reading list, so all is not lost

Holy shit.. Rob if you haven't checked Qebrus and Valance Drakes out yet, you're in for a treat!

 

Thanks Ae for this AAA, truly mindblaeing.

Edited November 8, 2013 by wabby

  Just now, Sean Ae said:

 

  Just now, Joyrex said:

Who's your favourite WATTMER?

LUDD by a country mile. No Doubts. Hands down. Man's a fucking champ.

 

 

gee thanks guys

  On 11/8/2013 at 3:18 AM, wabby said:

mindblaeing.

 

 

lol

LUDD, you forgot to fake their response in lower case

ludd pls

~~ hehe heeh

i didn't catch his answer to the soundboard question

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we were discussing this recently (milking it for all it's worth)

the main barrier is the sheer amount of it we would have to go through, it's a few months work i reckon, if it was going to be comprehensive (and that's hard cos the archive is WELL patchy)

and we were debating what we'd actually do with it as well

ie. whether it's better to stitch the best bits of different gigs together (like a lot of 70s/80s live albums did) or to release them slightly edited (george lucas), or to touch them up here and there sonically, or leave them totally untouched

it's our style to release them untouched really - but they would sound a bit weak if we left them 100% intact cos they were mixed for a live rig, and what sounds good mixed in a venue can sound terrible as a 2 track master played at home (a bit better really loud on cans but never quite right)

the fact that we would prob end up messing with the sound sets off my autism and makes me want to make other changes

i'd say that while he was still non committal in his response, this is a very hopeful statement. Just the fact that they've even discussed how to approach a project like this gets me all giddy

comin in drunk. this shit aint locked yet???

 

Just been drinkin' some Ommegang Adoration & some crazy shit Lithuanian Lager @ 12%. Before & after maybe. SHit looks like a chick on the label, but if you flip the bottle over it looks like

 

shit. good. doges.

 

Ae still floatin artound? Meant to ask them, some good out of the way places to visit when I visit the UK.

 

Ah fuckin Red Wings...goddam overtime...

  On 11/8/2013 at 2:56 AM, Ivan Ooze said:

 

  On 11/8/2013 at 12:46 AM, laloslalos said:

 

 

 

It was a big surprise thanks Autechre, and remember we are waiting for you in Mexico

 

Lol