Autechre trying to contact aliens

interesting read. i will they release the track...

http://www.factmag.com/2017/11/16/sonar-festival-music-space-contact-aliens-autechre/

25 years later we get alien music that is really good but causes madness

you can hear the track here: https://www.sonarcalling.com/artists/autechre/

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The archive we have sent are the first 449 prime numbers, transformed into Hz (with phase shifting to avoid beeps in the signal). Every frequency band is delayed by 1/499th of a second, which creates a cycle. The loop lasts exactly one second, and a new band is activated every 1/499th of a second. Is a little complicated, but we are confident that with the given information at the start of the message they will be able to decipher it, or atleast understand that everything is based on a decimal system and understand the concept of a prime number.

  On 11/17/2017 at 10:37 AM, MIXL2 said:

you can hear the track here: https://www.sonarcalling.com/artists/autechre/

 

the text says

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The archive we have sent are the first 449 prime numbers, transformed into Hz (with phase shifting to avoid beeps in the signal). Every frequency band is delayed by 1/499th of a second, which creates a cycle. The loop lasts exactly one second, and a new band is activated every 1/499th of a second. Is a little complicated, but we are confident that with the given information at the start of the message they will be able to decipher it, or atleast understand that everything is based on a decimal system and understand the concept of a prime number.

 

nice...

The headline should be: "AE phone home"

  On 11/17/2017 at 10:58 AM, Jaazeps said:

The headline should be: "AE phone home"

tagged...

  On 11/17/2017 at 10:58 AM, Jaazeps said:

The headline should be: "AE phone home"

flol

fukn KNEW that track would be some drone boredingness loooooooool Where Are Dem Mad Mental Beats????

bangin brah

cool

nina kraviz, laurel halo and holly herndon?! lol LOOOOOOL

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

The thread title is slightly misleading. It's more so that the curators of Sónar Festival are broadcasting the music than Ae doing so directly.

Anyway, my impression as a fan for the last two decades is that they are actually trolling with their "message".

  On 11/17/2017 at 4:28 PM, phudoshin said:

cool

flol

I already received the response through quanbulltum entangleshitment 

I was going to take some pics of the spectrum of the track, but I decided to make a video instead for fun so you can listen to me stammer about it:

Ah, this made me realize I was looking at the first 499 primes and not the first 449 primes. So the 3169hz cutoff does make sense!

hahah that's awesome man! look mom I'm on YouTube!

whats this noisy shit !! send them something from Confield !

  On 11/24/2017 at 4:31 PM, Kavinsky said:

whats this noisy shit !! send them something from Confield !