From Art Kerns Sent Thu, Jan 1st 1998, 23:53
From Art Kerns Sent Thu, Jan 1st 1998, 23:53
someone asked about the autechre interview in sound on sound magazine... i too looked in vain for this for several months. it's in the november 1997 issue (volume 13 issue 1). the interview is not mentioned anywhere on the cover (soundscape sshdr1+ is the lead article, also recording vangelis, steinberg cubase vst for pc, etc). might be able to order back issues through their web site http://www.sospubs.co.uk/ i found my copy at tower i thought the autechre interview was very interesting and well worth tracking down if you are interested in the gear and to a lesser extent the processes they use to create their music. some highlights: (When is a departure from the regular one departure too many?) Rob: "You can go too far, but that's for you to decide. We've found ourselves thinking at times that we might have gone too far. But we've always been in our own space -- it's hard for us to imagine where that datum or line of reference lies." Sean: "Maybe it's a curiousity thing as well. In the studio it's a case of 'wouldn't it be interesting if'. You then try it and you find that you like it, and once you've started doing it, then you don't think about any other way of working. You can't help but be single minded, you get addicted to finding things that you like." Rob: "Discovery is really important." Sean: "It's finding something and thinking, 'that's really good actually', then trying to understand it. it's definitely not about musical process, we don't know anything about music; we still don't understand what music is really." (On the Nord Lead) Sean: "There are a couple tracks on Cichlisuite that are enitrely Nord..." Rob: "I think the Nord has been the most inspirational piece of gear we've worked with, it's pushed us to get all our other gear to try and emulate it." (On remixes) Rob: "We get a few and we tend to not turn anything down. We're well into remixing." Sean: "That is unless we're spewing with ideas, then we won't go near a remix because you think, 'why would I want to waste these great ideas on this cheesy, made-for-Japan remix'. Usually we're not too busy and we have a laugh doing them. You can get a DAT full of anything..." (On Warp records) Sean: "When Frequencies came out, and Test Tone, we were like, 'shit!' You think that you're the only ones interested in this weird music that you can't put your finger on, and there's this label that's banging loads of it out -- hearing exactly the type of stuff that you think is where music should go, and it's all on your doorstep. We're not fans of anything, really, but in Warp's case we can almost make an exception -- instant respect." Rob: "It's interesting looking back on our old stuff. It's mostly pretty amusing, but sometimes you'll find ideas that you're still pursuing heavily now, and you didn't even realize you were pursuing then. That's the real magic in it -- knowing you had the ideas all along. We think we know loads about what we're doing, but then you realize you instinctively knew it back then, without having a clue about how you were doing it." Sean: "We had all the ideas back in 1988, we just didn't have the gear. The only thing that helps us on our way, or accelerates our progress, is being able to assemble things more quickly. In terms of having the ideas, that's something you can't learn." happy '98! ... art