US dates

  On 10/5/2015 at 6:34 PM, Entorwellian said:

 

  On 10/5/2015 at 8:13 AM, cygnus said:

 

  On 10/5/2015 at 5:42 AM, OneSixSeven said:

Anyone going to portsmouth?

yeah

 

Your vancouver set was incredible. Sucks about that technical hiccup but everything else sounded great. Good show!

 

thanks man i appreciate it . glad u had fun

im trying to remember what happened in vanc .did i mess up a track? lol

  On 10/5/2015 at 6:32 PM, juiceciuj said:

anyone going to atl show on friday? i think i saw somewhere that flim is going so we'll probably run into each other or we can try to make a point to get together beforehand? also, seems like there was a poll at some point and i saw that there was at least one other person going to the atl show that i'm not familiar with...

 

I have tix for both Asheville and Atlanta shows. Might be rolling into Atlanta later in the evening so I probably will not have much or any time before the show. I don't have an outfit planned out or whatever but I'll post again before the show.

 

Holy shit I'm pumped

  On 10/5/2015 at 8:24 AM, StephenG said:

^^ Holy shit! Hey mr cygnus boss, thank you for the vancouver show. Me and a friend and my brother and gf were right behind you when you went into the crowd, but when we tried to thank you for the set, the Imperial's security blocked us off. dafuq?!

 

Your set was awesome man, and I've since bought all music you've produced that I can get my hand on lol

 

\gushing

thats weird man. wouldve been a joy to shake hands and meet

where was i standing? imperial was a weird kind of venue, cause the dressing rooms were basically right next to the bathroom area like wtf? anyways yea sorry about tht

thanks so much for buying some tunes. i cant put into words how much i appreciate it . thanx

i'll probably where my pet shop boys tour shirt because it's a badass shirt and i just finally found it: http://www.amazon.com/Adult-Electric-Rainbow-Black-T-Shirt/dp/B00MERTSOG

  On 10/5/2015 at 6:16 PM, Candiru said:

I had fun meeting you all in Boston! More watmmeetups in the future should occur imo

only if Technojesus is there.

  On 10/5/2015 at 6:46 PM, cygnus said:

 

  On 10/5/2015 at 8:24 AM, StephenG said:

^^ Holy shit! Hey mr cygnus boss, thank you for the vancouver show. Me and a friend and my brother and gf were right behind you when you went into the crowd, but when we tried to thank you for the set, the Imperial's security blocked us off. dafuq?!

 

Your set was awesome man, and I've since bought all music you've produced that I can get my hand on lol

 

\gushing

thats weird man. wouldve been a joy to shake hands and meet

where was i standing? imperial was a weird kind of venue, cause the dressing rooms were basically right next to the bathroom area like wtf? anyways yea sorry about tht

thanks so much for buying some tunes. i cant put into words how much i appreciate it . thanx

 

 

Were you at any point in the crowd? About halfway through the Autechre set we saw someone that looked exactly the same as you, wearing the same clothes etc, in the crowd. As soon as I pointed you out to my brother and girlfriend, security from the club walked right in between the guy and us and turned his back to us, as if to block us off from saying hello. The guy made a clear point of standing right in between what we thought was you.

 

Maybe it wasn't you and we were all just mistaken!

 

Either way, awesome set. I didn't mind the Imperial, simple setup (just one big room) and I found the system decent, head crushing bass at least.

Edited October 5, 2015 by StephenG

How long is are the sets? Tryina calculate how much sleep I'll get

you'll be done before midnight, if the previous set times hold true.

http://www.residentadvisor.net/review-view.aspx?id=17937

 

That review was a fucking travesty

You think ae didn't play the game?? THEY ARE THE FUCKING GAME

looking for personality in idmz >> fail

  On 10/5/2015 at 8:31 PM, Herr Jan said:

 

http://www.residentadvisor.net/review-view.aspx?id=17937

 

guy must have been standing near me and had to endure those silent missiles from the goatee guy

  On 10/5/2015 at 8:31 PM, Herr Jan said:

 

http://www.residentadvisor.net/review-view.aspx?id=17937

 

That radical attitude and grandiose theatricality was missing from their performance on Saturday, which offered a ferocious display of modern sound design but ultimately lacked in personality.

it lacked a memorable arc.

2.5/5

 

Send 'em my way. I'll be happy to accommodate with my Hospitality Plunger...TO THEIR FACE

  On 10/5/2015 at 8:31 PM, Herr Jan said:

 

http://www.residentadvisor.net/review-view.aspx?id=17937

 

That radical attitude and grandiose theatricality was missing from their performance on Saturday, which offered a ferocious display of modern sound design but ultimately lacked in personality.

it lacked a memorable arc.

2.5/5

 

 

This is New York for you, nothing is ever good for them because they live in the "greatest city on the planet"

The New York show was fucking great. Sounds like this guy could've just used a drink or a big fat bowl.

yeah i mean the sound was quite bass heavy, seemingly due to the venue, but autechre adjusted, i think. it seemed like maybe they played less of their prepared stuff from the other shows and were jamming more?

I'm planning on recording Portsmouth tonight too

  On 10/4/2015 at 10:47 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

 

  On 10/4/2015 at 8:58 PM, sweepstakes said:

 

midi is stone-age. i need to learn max.

 

sorry i know this wasn't you who quoted this, but when they went off on how old-school midi was in the AAA it was the most glaring red herring i've ever seen them layout in an interview. Like i'm sure that they aren't bullshitting about feeling midi limiting, but it seemed kinda like sleight of hand 'we're more next level than anybody' type of statement to me. The proof is in the pudding of how next level they are (the way their music sounds) so sometimes when they go off on these tangents about how obscure/unorthodox their working method is without giving explicit details it feels a bit like they're trying to spin a bit of a mythos about themselves. They said in an interview recently that they're almost at the point where they can spit out an album in real-time with the software they have. I'm a big enough fan boy where I believe them when they say it, but sometimes I wonder what all the secrecy is really about, like if their software could do that it would be fucking amazing to see a video of that happening, similar to that vsnares tracker video from a few years ago

 

 

im surprised you feel that way. midi's limitations stand out most obviously to me when wanting to automate a parameter. the difference between one value and an adjacent value can be jarring, and to slide through at anything but a fast rate would sound like a series of jagged steps, annihilating the aesthetic value the parameter's automation may have offered.

 

the 128 values were decided on because of limitations in computer hardware more than 30 years ago, when it was standardized, so it is literally quite out-dated, or stone-age.

 

many times during the autechre show i noticed automation going on that would have been impossible in midi. it opens a huge door of possibilities having higher resolution.

 

i guess hd midi is in the works, and a poster here said osc has potential.

Edited October 6, 2015 by very honest

  On 10/5/2015 at 8:31 PM, Herr Jan said:

 

http://www.residentadvisor.net/review-view.aspx?id=17937

 

That radical attitude and grandiose theatricality was missing from their performance on Saturday, which offered a ferocious display of modern sound design but ultimately lacked in personality.

it lacked a memorable arc.

2.5/5

 

 

He basically gushes at how great it sounds, and calls them wizards pulling sounds from other dimensions. But, apparently, that's not enough because he has a recording of Krakow which is in his opinion the best other-dimensional wizardry...and this set lacks a "memorable arc," whatever the fuck he's getting at there...so a 2.5/5? Like, I get if you didn't think it was the best set they could ever do, but really you're saying they went out and half-assed it? I seriously doubt that. A 3.5? A 4?

 

Obviously this review doesn't matter in the least, and I've not seen this set (YET!!!! AUSTIN MOFOS), but to gush about how amazing everything they're doing is but then knock the rating down that low, I just don't get that. Seems silly.

  On 10/6/2015 at 12:17 AM, very honest said:

 

 

many times during the autechre show i noticed automation going on that would have been impossible in midi. it opens a huge door of possibilities having higher resolution.

 

i guess hd midi is in the works, and a poster here said osc has potential.

 

i've noticed that as well, not just in their recent shows but ever since Quaristice. I think the approach is awesome personally, but it's not imo that 'next level' in the sense that people making electronic music on modular synths for example always used audio rate CV modulations which is higher resolution than midi. A lot of the 'automation' autechre seems to be doing these days reminds me a lot of that old school approach where using an audio signal as a CV envelope follower can create very fluid/dynamic sounding automation/effects changes. I guess the only important part of my tangent is I still get the sense Autechre are being overly oblique about their working method and at this point it doesn't seem necessary to me (since the proof of their skills is in the music itself). but i honestly do find their claim of being able to spit out something like Exai in 'real-time' to be pretty unbelievable, and in that instance I would like to see something like a video of a patch in action proving they can actually do that. Part of is willing to go along with it, but its quite the claim (especially after hearing how similar all the tour has been so far to the Krakow set). I'm not picking on or singling out Autechre for making claims like this, I have a tendency on this forum to do this with artists like Squarepusher (unfabulum was made 'live' ,Go plastic was all made using an eventide, etc, still very hard to believe claims). RDJ is one of the artists who has actually thrown down the gauntlet and been like 'look fuckers I was right all along' (potentially thousands of unreleased tracks, doing extremely complex arrangements with just analog hardware synths and clock sync'd drum machines) , maybe some would feel that reflects a need to prove something, i dont feel that way though.

Edited October 6, 2015 by John Ehrlichman

  On 10/5/2015 at 9:45 AM, autopilot said:

Who's gonna be at the Philly show?

I'll be there tomorrow

My wife is coming too. I tried to warn her, but she insisted she wanted to see the music I'm so often talking about

 

Then I teach at 8am Wednesday morning

So this is going to be a wild night

Edited October 6, 2015 by fizzkinz

  On 10/6/2015 at 12:17 AM, very honest said:

very honest, on 05 Oct 2015 - 3:17 PM, said:

im surprised you feel that way. midi's limitations stand out most obviously to me when wanting to automate a parameter. the difference between one value and an adjacent value can be jarring, and to slide through at anything but a fast rate would sound like a series of jagged steps, annihilating the aesthetic value the parameter's automation may have offered.

 

the 128 values were decided on because of limitations in computer hardware more than 30 years ago, when it was standardized, so it is literally quite out-dated, or stone-age.

 

many times during the autechre show i noticed automation going on that would have been impossible in midi. it opens a huge door of possibilities having higher resolution.

If I remember right, there was also some discussion in the AAA thread about the 90s-00s material where they were using curves & LFOs on the Nord G1/G2 to do the smoothing of steps. I think with that kind of modular tool you can achieve a lot with MIDI by doing things like having separate coarse & fine controls or inertia/time controls. That stuff is definitely possible using good old stone aged MIDI with some ingenuity and willingness to compromise.

 

But it's going to be a lot more practical in an environment like Max where you can just, say, send a list to a line~ object to go to from 1379782 to 6.9075 over the course of 983 milliseconds. That kind of precision opens a lot of doors.

  On 10/5/2015 at 7:08 PM, usagi said:

 

  On 10/5/2015 at 6:16 PM, Candiru said:

I had fun meeting you all in Boston! More watmmeetups in the future should occur imo

only if Technojesus is there.

Technojesus is an entity that will appear if the conditions are just right, like a tornado or a lunar eclipse.

  On 10/6/2015 at 3:54 AM, sweepstakes said:

 

But it's going to be a lot more practical in an environment like Max where you can just, say, send a list to a line~ object to go to from 1379782 to 6.9075 over the course of 983 milliseconds. That kind of precision opens a lot of doors.

 

analog synthesis cv modulation/controls especially now a days with the explosion of so many eurorack modules makes a lot of 'autechrey' music with absolutely no midi and no computer very possible

Sure, I mean, depending on your definition of "Autechrey". My definition changed drastically in the last few years.