Place to chat about AAA thread

  On 11/8/2013 at 4:15 PM, Obel said:

 

  On 11/8/2013 at 4:09 PM, Frankie5fingers said:

why not do a WATMM autechre tribute album? we could use Jules' thank you pic as the album cover.

 

That's actually a pretty good idea.

 

Yeah, I'd be down for this too!

  On 11/8/2013 at 4:35 PM, lumpenprol said:

 

  On 11/8/2013 at 3:45 PM, keltoi said:

 

  On 11/8/2013 at 2:45 PM, lumpenprol said:

 

  On 11/8/2013 at 12:17 PM, keltoi said:

hey lumpenprol, did you form babby again?

 

well done sir. you have rapid-fire loins.

thank you sir!

 

yeah, basically 4 mos after the first. Guess the seed is still strong, despite sitting on my arse all day. Wasn't on purpose but I'm happy to see it through (after all won't be my vagina exploding)

 

 

shame you didn't get a name for "it" ;0 ...

 

 

for real, not sure why they were so weirded out by it, in a way I guess it shows their modesty, that they just don't feel comfortable with the idea that someone would give them that sort of power. But if they put themselves in my shoes and had the opportunity to get a baby name from say, Depeche Mode or David Lynch, they might be stoked at the thought. For me a name isn't that big a deal, most are meaningless, hence why it'd be cool to have a backstory to go with it. I was asking for a normal-ish name, not v-proc or something that'd scar the kid for life. Ah well.

 

i didn't think you were that serious. wow.

given the cringeyness of the whole naming thing... if it had been a "AAA in person" who'd have been the first to ask them to sign their breasts or genitals and then get it tattooed in?

I propose the tribute album is called "Sean pls: An Autechre Tributæ"

sean thx

Did anyone ever figure out what is written in the white/grey pixel stuff they used to announce the 2x12 hour mixes they did in march?

And I think someone else mentioned wanting to know what the tshirts say

With no more Sean and Rob, what else do we really have left to occupy our time with anyway?

Good point. Investigation time

Not sure about radio.

doing a tribute album to the 'chre:

http://forum.watmm.com/topic/81179-watmms-tribute-to-autechre/

  On 11/8/2013 at 5:12 PM, fizzkinz said:

With no more Sean and Rob, what else do we really have left to occupy our time with anyway?

breeding more speculations

it turns out that gaekwad off Peel Sessions 2 was made on that Roland PMA-5, as Maphive 6.1 was made on. i thought so because of that GM-sounds pallette etc.

[radical speculation]

i suppose that this two tracks were made by Rob, because fact about pma-5 usage was recalled by him and it seems that he likes such gadgets

lel

[/radical speculation]

to be honest i thought that Rob participates only from time to time, with cheesy detroit chords etc. and this speculation makes me marvel at his melodic talent and psychedelic'ness

and i regained my opinion that they are completely equivalent to each other (but from different angle)

Regarding Quaristice as a dream:

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Sean Ae, on 05 Nov 2013 - 4:35 PM, said:

  On 11/5/2013 at 10:35 PM, Sean Ae said:

Dematchou, on 05 Nov 2013 - 3:55 PM, said:

  On 11/5/2013 at 9:55 PM, Dematchou said:

Something I always found intriguing was the way you talk about the use of space.

For ages I associated that with the use of like timbre and dynamics to create like imagery of external spaces, but I always got a weird vibe from Quaristice, and I couldn't quite put my finger on it.

I think what it represents to me is more of an internal or perceptive space, almost with like dissociative or solipistic feeling, like the way when you're having an internal dialogue with yourself and it almost exists in its own sort of space. 90101-5l-l is probably the track I get that feeling from the most, IO is another.

"bladelores" from Exai gives me almost the opposite feeling, where it feels very much like an external space (I always imagine like Antarctica for some reason).

Not saying that it's like an intentional part of your design or anything, but do you ever pay any thought to that kind of thing when you're listening to music yourselves? Sorry if that came across as vague or abstract, it's kind of hard to translate into words.

yeah i would agree with both of those, i know what you mean i had a similar thought
quaristice is meant to flow like a long dream, you know how doors lead to different chapters and worlds before you realise
oops im revealing things now

When I was first getting really interested in Autechre, I remember reading a review on Discogs (which now seems to be missing) that discussed the album in terms of a dream. Paraphrased, it went like this: you're in a blue room with 20 doors. You open a door and watch strange objects operate and morph in profound, obscene ways, and then suddenly you close that door and open the next, and continue for an hour. When you close the last door, you wake up

Q is definitely one of the stranger ones for me, and it really wasn't until digging into Exai in the early summer of this year that I came to really love it. Must be the aeffect. Now it's one of my favorites but I can't seem to recognize the elements that appeal to me, like aesthetic or compositional style or whatever (these are more obvious in my obsession with Untilted). On the immediate level it does feel like a blueprint/schematic prototype that's kind of suggested by the cover. But I'd say now that it definitely follows dream logic. Short episodes that sometimes transition cleanly into another story although they share zero components, and similarly we have deliberately sudden, rough, contrasting track transitions, but it contributes somehow to a natural narrative. Of course that last part could be biased from me growing comfortable with the story from relistening.

This review was mentioned in the pretentious reviews thread. I agree that it is pretentious and absolutely silly, but IMO it's also really accurate. The visual journey is vivid and obvious, as Ae albums usually are.

http://www.spannered.org/music/1382/


Oversteps being about memory... I don't know, maybe the similarity of repeated sections, or how they fall just short of similarity, trying to catch the subtlest particle of progression in repetitions of phrases, which, it's worth mentioning, are much longer in time than they are on any other Ae release.

Perhaps interpreting the tracks on Oversteps as stories using language: I mean, honestly some notes and short "words" are a lot easier to remember. Some of more ambiguous words might change and play with the context of the more obvious ones. Maybe part of the fun with Oversteps is that it plays with our subconcsious memory filing system. But it's hard to really know. It's also such a wintery album for me, still surprised that Oversteps was released at the end of winter instead of the early fall

  On 11/8/2013 at 5:25 PM, Obel said:

Good point. Investigation time

 

 

 

 

 

Not sure about radio.

It seems to me the radio one ends with an "x"

So I'm trying to make it read "mix", but there is no room for that, and I sure as fuck don't see an M anywhere

  On 11/8/2013 at 5:44 PM, Vilwx said:

When I was first getting really interested in Autechre, I remember reading a review on Discogs (which now seems to be missing) that discussed the album in terms of a dream. Paraphrased, it went like this: you're in a blue room with 20 doors. You open a door and watch strange objects operate and morph in profound, obscene ways, and then suddenly you close that door and open the next, and continue for an hour. When you close the last door, you wake up

the cover art seems to be much like the continents breaking apart on the earth. quite possibly, when the pieces r pushed back together they will reveal something mysterious? it would follow, maybe, that then putting all of those bigger sections together or setting them in order somehow might reveal more?

  On 11/8/2013 at 5:53 PM, fizzkinz said:

 

  On 11/8/2013 at 5:25 PM, Obel said:

Good point. Investigation time

 

 

 

 

 

Not sure about radio.

Ok so the shirt was easier than I thought. Hadn't actually looked at it for awhile.

It seems to me the radio one ends with an "x"

So I'm trying to make it read "mix", but there is no room for that, and I sure as fuck don't see an M anywhere

 

looks like a "bx"

Not sure if bx is ae for broadcast or sommat?

  On 11/8/2013 at 5:54 PM, mcbpete said:

 

  On 11/8/2013 at 5:44 PM, Vilwx said:

When I was first getting really interested in Autechre, I remember reading a review on Discogs (which now seems to be missing) that discussed the album in terms of a dream. Paraphrased, it went like this: you're in a blue room with 20 doors. You open a door and watch strange objects operate and morph in profound, obscene ways, and then suddenly you close that door and open the next, and continue for an hour. When you close the last door, you wake up

Sort of this -

 

 

mcbpete, I was really amused by your post about the indie games:

http://forum.watmm.com/topic/81109-aaa-ask-autechre-anything-sean-and-rob-on-watmm/page-8?do=findComment&comment=2083768

(is there a way to accurately quote from closed threads?)

Anyway, I'm not much of a videogamer, but there are a few games that rock my world including these. (Most recent one I've played being Riven.)

Main reason I was surprised to read that is that I've played just a little bit of both, and they ridiculously reeked of Autechre. In fact, they are both the most Aeish games I've encountered

Memory of a Broken Dimension is the exact location that the ancient event of Draft 7.30 occurred in millennia ago.

FRACT is just so fucking LP5 it's difficult to separate the two.

I've been really interested in Antichamber, but it doesn't quite associate with Autechre for me at all. Really more like SAWII or Alva Noto's Xerrox series. But then again, I haven't actually played it yet and it seems like a game where the difference between actively playing and simply viewing is more distinct than it usually is with games.

Quaristice certainly contains a bit of dimensional impossibility. It also might be kind of automatic too, maybe in a passive way. In Quaristice things don't really happen to you, but they happen in front of you. It's just so weird and different, and so non-visceral, it's really hard to find a more concrete analog to place in its realm.

But that might be it! I'll just have to play it and listen to Quaristice/Quadrange/Versions on shuffle and see what happens!

Actually Xerrox is a spot on connection with the game - The mixture of the cold clinical environment with particle hisses and warm ambient hums and glowing spaces in the environment. High five man !

>The two cd's of the cd edition of Exai cover arts feature a 1 and a 2, too.

ae blew my mind this week.

Top stuff all round fella's, and some great questions and banter from the watmm maphive.

  On 11/8/2013 at 5:25 PM, Obel said:

Good point. Investigation time

 

 

 

 

 

Not sure about radio.

ae ws?

edit: and i think modey is right on the t-shirt. ae t-

Or maybe RS for Radio Show?

  On 11/8/2013 at 6:10 PM, baph said:

 

  On 11/8/2013 at 5:53 PM, fizzkinz said:

 

  On 11/8/2013 at 5:25 PM, Obel said:

Good point. Investigation time

 

 

 

 

 

Not sure about radio.

Ok so the shirt was easier than I thought. Hadn't actually looked at it for awhile.

It seems to me the radio one ends with an "x"

So I'm trying to make it read "mix", but there is no room for that, and I sure as fuck don't see an M anywhere

 

 

looks like a "bx"

Not sure if bx is ae for broadcast or sommat?

 

or 'tx' for transmission, perhaps?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_(telecommunications)

by the way, auxien points out that he is the author of tac Lacora fake

great if so!

  On 11/8/2013 at 8:44 PM, jasondonervan said:

 

  On 11/8/2013 at 6:10 PM, baph said:

 

 

  On 11/8/2013 at 5:53 PM, fizzkinz said:

 

 

  On 11/8/2013 at 5:25 PM, Obel said:

Good point. Investigation time

 

 

 

 

 

Not sure about radio.

Ok so the shirt was easier than I thought. Hadn't actually looked at it for awhile.

It seems to me the radio one ends with an "x"

So I'm trying to make it read "mix", but there is no room for that, and I sure as fuck don't see an M anywhere

looks like a "bx"

Not sure if bx is ae for broadcast or sommat?

or 'tx' for transmission, perhaps?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_(telecommunications)

ae have been bloody marvellous over the last 5 days, lots of food for thought, both in terms of music and random general stuff. poor buggers have been sitting there hunched over their computer replying at a furious rate. thats dedication. i'm gonna have a re-read over it tomorrow. tonight i'm intrigued to listen parhelic triangle with a fresh set of ears after them saying it was more difficult to create than one would initially think.

EDIT: Wrong thread. i'll move it later.

It's funny because as I replied in the thread, I can definitely understand how it would have been a difficult track. I still can't tell what that main loop is made from. It seems to evolve so naturally too, like it was grown or something.

  On 11/8/2013 at 9:55 PM, modey said:

 

  On 11/8/2013 at 8:44 PM, jasondonervan said:

 

  On 11/8/2013 at 6:10 PM, baph said:

 

  On 11/8/2013 at 5:53 PM, fizzkinz said:

 

  On 11/8/2013 at 5:25 PM, Obel said:

Good point. Investigation time

 

 

 

 

 

Not sure about radio.

Ok so the shirt was easier than I thought. Hadn't actually looked at it for awhile.

It seems to me the radio one ends with an "x"

So I'm trying to make it read "mix", but there is no room for that, and I sure as fuck don't see an M anywhere

looks like a "bx"

Not sure if bx is ae for broadcast or sommat?

or 'tx' for transmission, perhaps?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_(telecommunications)

Yeah, i see it as 'ae tx', with the tshirts saying 'ae t-' (with that hyphen being an em-dash, for some reason it doesn't come up when i post from my phone).

 

I see 3 lines, maybe "a e Live mix" t-shirt I see "ae t" pretty funny