Autechre. NTS Residency. (_O_)

Speaking of Quaristice, it just made me realize how intense the Live / Elseq / NTS material is. It sounds almost peaceful now, despite the fact that it was (to me) the most challenging Ae album to listen to!

God damn this new stuff is sick. It gets better each week!

3 days until

session 3 will become an old ae alb

and will be thrown on the pile of old ae albs

making space for session 4

which will be he new ae alb

he, the new ae alb

Also (repeating myself) xflood uses a lot of assets from Oversteps / Move of Ten era. I mean that choir (d-sho qub) and artifical resonant plucks stuff with overtones (y7).

Yeah with these releases anyone notice the aeffect is artificially accelerating in line with the way the internet accelerates the lifespan of a music scene or culture?

With the release of NTSS2, NTSS1 suddenly became the old album from 2yrs ago. Then the same thing happened when 3 came out, except people were now starting to appreciate 1 again and so on and so forth.

Time is out of joint my love/

9 chr0 reminds me of Osla for n: strange, industrial noises that fall into a groovy rhythm as the track progresses

  On 4/23/2018 at 11:24 AM, hello spiral said:

Time is out of joint my love

still hoping that AE + EL-P collab is gonna happen some day

haven’t even listened to 01 or 02 that olde shite since 03 came out. I’m scared of it tbqh.. but, think I saw a rain drop or two so think ima stay in bed today & do that maybe

02 currently getting a re-roll this morning, with a bit of snooker on the telly in the background. Making for a fine accompaniment to the intense geometric action.

  On 4/23/2018 at 11:40 AM, AnwarAutokino said:

9 chr0 reminds me of Osla for n: strange, industrial noises that fall into a groovy rhythm as the track progresses

 

 

  On 4/23/2018 at 11:24 AM, hello spiral said:

Time is out of joint my love

 

still hoping that AE + EL-P collab is gonna happen some day

Some root elements of Osla also pop up briefly in glos ceramic.

It is sad how brutally supplanted they become. I'm incredibly attached to NTS3, so the thought of NTS4 is vaguely threatening, however enticing. ye old t1a1 feels as embedded as the 90s stuff now.

The final week is upon us...

only just noticed that 4 looks like a squarewave....kinda

  On 4/23/2018 at 12:27 PM, Roo said:

It is sad how brutally supplanted they become. I'm incredibly attached to NTS3, so the thought of NTS4 is vaguely threatening, however enticing.

This is why I still haven't listened to 2 or 3 since the original listening party. Will probably start playing 2 this weekend and 3 a few weeks after that.

oh damn..

listening to S01,

had totes forgotten all about four of seven, and only when that stuttery end bit of gonk steady one came in remembered that fkn four of seven would drop next.

dunno, think S01 might still be my fav.

fingers crossed for a gonk finale on 'chresday

2 2 über alles, impeccable.

1 and 3 feel pretty much on par atm... maybe i'd give 1 a slight edge for consistency and the duo of debris and l3. 3 is still in process of opening up to me tho.

so much goodness overall. super psyched for the NTS to end all NTSes. aepril= stuff of legend alraedy.

S1 still sounds fresh as fuck to me.

yeh it’s top ace.

I’m trying to like season 2 but somehow can’t really connect with it

at least not as much as season 1 and season 3

*continues bothering the neighbours with xflood*

Y'all need to get back on the S2 train.

  On 4/22/2018 at 11:13 PM, auxien said:

Not for me yet! As difficult as it is, I'm purposefully trying not to overload on these, want to really ease into them as slowly as possible over the next couple months.

 

Are there any ideas, what hardware / software they used for the sessions? Without knowing much about the technological side of electronic music, my first guess was modular system...

  On 4/23/2018 at 3:34 PM, Bertolt Brechtakt said:

 

  On 4/22/2018 at 11:13 PM, auxien said:

Not for me yet! As difficult as it is, I'm purposefully trying not to overload on these, want to really ease into them as slowly as possible over the next couple months.

I totally relate to that. I decided to not download sessions 3 & 4 and wait until I receive the 12 LP box. I want to listen to them first time on vinyl.

 

 

Are there any ideas, what hardware / software they used for the sessions? Without knowing much about the technological side of electronic music, my first guess was modular system...

 

 They used a programming environment called MaxMSP which allows them to design their own instruments virtually. So hardware was only computers and maybe some controllers they connected to their MaxMSP patches

Looks something like this but more complex:

  On 4/23/2018 at 3:41 PM, darreichungsform said:

 

  On 4/23/2018 at 3:34 PM, Bertolt Brechtakt said:

 

  On 4/22/2018 at 11:13 PM, auxien said:

Not for me yet! As difficult as it is, I'm purposefully trying not to overload on these, want to really ease into them as slowly as possible over the next couple months.

I totally relate to that. I decided to not download sessions 3 & 4 and wait until I receive the 12 LP box. I want to listen to them first time on vinyl.

 

 

Are there any ideas, what hardware / software they used for the sessions? Without knowing much about the technological side of electronic music, my first guess was modular system...

They used a programming environment called MaxMSP which allows them to design their own instruments virtually. So hardware was only computers and maybe some controllers they connected to their MaxMSP patches

We don't actually have confirmation that it's just Max/MSP of course, as they've not given any interviews since the NTS Sessions were announced. Some of the sounds definitely are coming from their previous Max stuff, and I'd say this is very likely almost entirely Max, but we don't know that for sure yet.

I'd commented previously that this one sounds much more varied in tone and processing than much of their other Max only stuff, and wouldn't be surprised if they were using some hardware, outside-of-Max processing/effects, samples, etc.... but that's just speculation on my part (except the cat sound in t1a1 and the vocals/recording in dummy casual)

What cat sound ? I'm currently giving session 1 another listen and didn't notice that !

But I noticed how beautiful the tiny synth chords were at the end of the track... Really really beautiful, I love that kind of stuff. t1a1 = new favorite ?

  On 4/23/2018 at 4:04 PM, auxien said:

We don't actually have confirmation that it's just Max/MSP of course, as they've not given any interviews since the NTS Sessions were announced. Some of the sounds definitely are coming from their previous Max stuff, and I'd say this is very likely almost entirely Max, but we don't know that for sure yet.

 

I'd commented previously that this one sounds much more varied in tone and processing than much of their other Max only stuff, and wouldn't be surprised if they were using some hardware, outside-of-Max processing/effects, samples, etc.... but that's just speculation on my part (except the cat sound in t1a1 and the vocals/recording in dummy casual)

I guess they use controllers, buttons, knobs, sliders etc. and connect them to their patches. There is really no reason for them to use any hardware synths anymore because they can simply program a Max patch that does the same as the synth. but yeah, we can't be sure