Hail to this thread!!!
I pronounce it as "au-tekh-re" since I was told that in 1996.. 8)
Alien
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> From: Tyr aka Xpansion [mailto:xpansion@earthlink.net]
> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 12:25 PM
> To: Wheeler, Dan
> Cc: 'Matthew Korfhage'; idm@hyperreal.org
> Subject: Re: [idm] The Ultimate Autechre Pronounciation Thread!
>
>
> personally I pronounce it:
> "aw-tek-ur"
>
> I kinda base it on the rumor that Autechre means "Audio
> Technology Research"
> That and "aw-tek-ree" sounds stupid =)
>
> morgan
>
> Wheeler, Dan wrote:
>
> > Y'all pronounce it "ow - teeker" right?
> >
> > dan
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Matthew Korfhage [mailto:pomomofo2000@hotmail.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 4:57 PM
> > To: idm@hyperreal.org
> > Subject: Re: [idm] The Ultimate Autechre Pronounciation Thread!
> >
> > Mark Stevens <mark@headspin.clara.net>wrote:
> >
> > >Hello.
> > >Ah, good to see some folks getting down to a good ol' fashioned
> > >Autechre pronounciation thread. We ain't seen one of them for
> a >while! Of
> > >course, this is a completely anal issue, but it's always >fun
> to see how
> > >other people have pronounced Autechre tracks over the >years.
> So, without
> > >further a do, an because I've got some spare time >before the
> England vs
> > >Italy football match kicks off, here is the >full run down of Autechre
> > >track titles and how I've always pronounce >them.
> >
> > I tend to think of Autechre track titles as ineffable. That is:
> These Things
> >
> > Should Not Be Uttered. It makes more sense when you realize
> that the titles,
> >
> > when strung together, are actually cabalistic codes, which,
> when the whole
> > of Autechre's eventual output is deciphered, will reveal the
> true name of
> > God, at which point Socrates the illiterate will suddenly and eternally
> > violate Plato with a skateboard, on a DVD skip, in a
> neverending return of
> > the same (keeping in mind that the ancient Greeks viewed the
> reading of the
> > written word--always out loud--as akin to sodomy, the words
> infused with the
> >
> > essence and voice of the one who first engraved them, entering
> on one end
> > and leaving through the other).
> >
> > Love love love
> >
> > M.
> >
> >
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