quoted 19 lines Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 12:06:30 -0400
> Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 12:06:30 -0400
> From: Greg Clow <greg@stainedproductions.com>
> Subject: Re: [idm] Interview with Sean from Ae
>
> At 10:33 AM 5/2/01, lists wrote:
>>http://debug.tool42.com/cgi-bin/debug.pl?what=3Dshow&part=3Dtexte&ID=3D1825
>>
>>interview done yesterday at their tour
>>through germany.
>
> All of you schmucks who have been spending the last couple of weeks
> analyzing the crap out of Confield should read this. More sepcifically, you
> should read the following excerpt:
>
> ---
>
> De:Bug: Where is Autechre going with this next album.
>
> Sean: Nah. Nah nah....
Greg,
Before calling us schmucks, also read this part:
De:Bug: How much music do you actually produce.?
Sean: Don´t know. In a good week probably about an hours worth. And
that can be various lengths. The thing is with a lot of generative
and computer stuff you are making programs, but you are not actually
bothered to record the tracks. The programms are always going to spit
out different versions of the tracks. I mean there are some that are
consistently running from start to finish as well. Coded routine that
works. But a lot of the tracks are really long cause there is no real
end to it. Its an algorithmic process and you don´t have to have an
end to it. I might fill a DAT with a track an listen to it while
doing other things. I am totally recursive as well. Involved with
Autechre. I don´t really listen as much to other peoples stuff as
much as I used to. Quite into listening to our own stuff.
De:Bug: It´s something that I have been waiting for years, that
somebody comes out with programs as a music format.
Sean: We´ve already released one on the fals label, but only a little
one. With music that performs a little visual process as well.
Generative, always slightly different. I`ve sent quite a lot of these
things out to people, but the problem is with copyright law as it
stands, it does not support stuff like that. It´s a great idea. I´d
love to give people a CD with the programs and say: There you go,
thats the new Autechre album. But everytime the program runs it makes
a different track, wich then has a different copyright, and the
person who runs the program could put his copyright to it. You could
release the tracks as your tracks. There is nothing for me to prevent
that.
---
A lot of Confield seems generative, that much can be said, in a
"one-take" sense, if we can "objectively" discuss Ae's music.
Bitching about having to do an interview is one thing; off-handedly
shrugging off people's interpretations of your music is quite another.
-Alex
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