Autechre Q&A @watmm

Sean & Rob from AE are having a Q&A session on watmm right now…

neat

thanks!

SB:

your machinedrum is now called keith
your analog 4 is now called pierre

:dizzy_face: :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Call me cheap, but after spending all of my Internet life on forums, I can’t justify paying just to ask a question. I would like to know the backstory on their remix of Skinny Puppy’s “The Killing Game”, however. That one really threw me and put me off of their work for a bit, but now I love it.

Been an interesting read so far tho. Sad to see their Elektrons are boxed and/or on loan, but they’ve been making great stuff without them.

I got a little sad when I read that they haven’t been using their Elektrons anymore. :disappointed: Seems they mostly use MAX now (the total opposite of using something like an Elektron).

Years ago, in Seattle, I saw Ae perform. A friend and I talked our girlfriends into going with us, despite neither of them having even the slightest interest in the music. After about 45 minutes of watching Sean and Rob sit motionless, staring at laptops, playing white noise and feedback, with parts of the crowd booing and yelling, other parts “dancing”, we joined the throngs of of the crest-fallen, and left. To say it was heartbreaking is a huge understatement. I couldn’t even listen to them for a long time after that experience.

I love them again now, but that show has remained the single most disappointing musical event of my life!

that sucks…yeah the one time I saw them it was also pretty bad… berghain berlin 2010… you could basically only hear the woofers… so i was standing there, trying to think of something to escape the disappointment, but no dice haha…

yeah this is weird, i think it usually was free before this ae q&a… didn’t know about this before today…

I didn’t realize that they were charging “admission.”

I’ve been on there for about four years or so. I guess it was a way to keep it from potentially getting out of hand and keeping it relatively within the community that has been there adding to the site for a while.

With the added bonus of helping defer costs of running the site if anybody else joins, since it is independently run.

Sean and Rob have been very gracious and not cagey, as they have been historically portrayed. Funny too. And within reason very open discussing process.

The naming of gear thing is just an added bonus. Some gems in there.

One theme I see running through the process questions is this continual push to operate outside your comfort zone. Wether it be from album to album or track to track. Really good advice.

Also the fact that Sean said he has 350 hours of audio (mostly jams to be edited) since April. :astonished:

as well as a few hundred finished tracks archived separate from the jam sessions.

edit: it’s a good Q&A… lot’s of good ae info and general conversation. a fun read

it’s a fan’s dream basically… the guys have been answering more or less every question asked… the fact that they’re going to do this it until Nov 7…

+1

TNX for the TiP!
yes, very informative…
so my listening for Elektron gear within their sound “architectures” are now purely imaginative: I thought I’ve spotted OT and A4 in the latest realises… I guess not.
But sound mutations are now possible with so many different tools, that only imagination is the limit.