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Can someone please add a pronunciation guide to the name of this artist? Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.90.78.70 ( talk) 13:55, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
I have to say I don't agree with any of the three 'suspicions' listed. The third one certainly would be strongly disputed by ae themselves. Ledge 14:42, 12 Aug 2003 (UTC)
'K, I've taken out the suspicions, and added a piece about reactions to their music which I hope is a bit more NPOV. I'm not really sure who could count as a recognised critic... also added a piece about the generative storm-in-a-teacup, unfortunately couldn't find a decent single quote in the article to sum it up. --
Ledge
We're not sure about this, but.. AUral TECHnology REdefined, article in Sound on Sound, around 1993? Someone can verify or acknowledge this?
Guaka 19:34, 14 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Autechre (from anywhere, meaning anything you want, pronounced any way you want)
I met them while they were behind the counter at ambient soho back in about '94/'95?, anyway I had to ask about the name and rob said that it was originally a similar name but they had to fit it into the characters available in an atari filename so on the spur of the moment decided on autechre. Of course he could have been winding me up but they were very honest about some other stuff like what they thought of fsol and being very embarassed when I told them I had a copy of cavity job - their first 12 which has a great chord sequence by the way.
davidcbarnett
Is Amber's cover really Turkey's Cappadocia rock formations? I thought they were sand dunes, commonly located on the United Kingdom's coastline (and elsewhere in the world), and bears some similarities in to those located near to Ae's their home town of Rochdale. The dunes in the UK are breaking down at the edge of the beach due to coastal erosion, forming patterns of sand 'piles'. 94.14.180.158 ( talk) 01:18, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
it seems like a lot of the information that should be grouped together is unnecessarily spread across several of the sections here.
the general information at the top should probably say where they are from; and while this happens in the history section now, i think the general information should also introduce the names of the members.
right now, music software and algorithmic pattern generation get mentioned in the music section, but i think they should probably be moved to the methods section. their music definitely has an intimidating unconventionality to it (which i myself actually found immediately appealing, contrary to the article's claim), but the fact that they use music software and algorithms to generate it is secondary to the style itself, which i think the music section is trying to describe.
that section is a bit weak right now in my opinion, if it's really attempting to be a description of style, and i think there is a lot of detail that could be added. an attempt could be made to chronicle their stylistic changes over their carreer. the most notable change is probably between the clean sterility of Tri Repetae and Chiastic Slide's crunchier edge, though there have been significant changes with almost every album since Incunabula.
also i think that draft 7.30 no longer holds the throne for most percussion-oriented album, now that untilted is out, but im not sure it's necessary to point out which album is most drum oriented in the section's current form, which is a general overview of their style. all of their albums have a lot of percussion-heavy tracks, and this sounds like draft 7.30 is the pinnacle of their style. Twelvethirteen 19:04, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
note: i made some of the changes i talked about in that diatribe (excuse the diatribe). i also changed the word "nickname" to "moniker" since a nickname is given by someone else, while a moniker is given to yourself. ae is a moniker because it appears on their official releases. i changed "max/msp/jitter" to "max/msp." jitter is an expansion for max/msp that allows the inclusion and processing of video signals. though they may own jitter, i find it doubtful that they use it in their music.
it would also be nice to at some point include some booth/brown quotes from interviews or references to actual critical reviews, but i'll leave that to someone who is more familiar with those types of things. (for now) Twelvethirteen 03:29, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
ive been thinking a lot about how to do justice to autechre's use of algorithmic sound and pattern generation. in particular ive been looking at this interview with sean. about 2/3 of the way through they start discussing algorithms and generative music in some depth. this could be a good source, but im not exactly sure how we could use some of these quotes. Twelvethirteen 20:36, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
Autechre did an interview in 1994 with a Los Angeles based culture/future media magazine "Resource" where they claimed the name "Autechre" came from a random character generator that either Booth or Brown had coded. The program simply spit out an eight-character alphabetic form when triggered. "Autechre" came up eventually and they simply liked the look and potential sound of it.
I will have to dig through some stacks to find that issue for a source. I might have the name wrong.
I am most totally certain that any notion the name means "Audio Architecture" or "Audio Technology Redefined" or any variation is false; its proliferation seems to stem from a series of erroneous discussions on the IDM mailing list at hyperreal.org during the mid to late 1990's.
in the interview:
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~reynolda/music_ae_092801.html
sean talks about the working relationship with rob, and runs through his day so far, at one point saying:
"Yeah, and then he got up about five minutes after I did (laughs) and just like didn't have any coffee."
do they live together? do they share a bed? are they lovers?
Is this tag still needed? It's starting to remind me of those perpetual "This page is under construction" GIFs. There's room to grow, but the article seems adequate. – edgarde 17:02, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
Considering the constant vandalising of this article, how about semi-protection? I requested it once about two months ago and it was knocked back. What do people think? Shoejar talk/ edits
There is an editor who has recently decided, unfortunately, to take ownership of this article for his own agenda (whatever that might be) and reverting any edits made to it. To whichever anonymous editor who added reviews of Untilted, Peel Sessions 2 and the ae3o collaboration with The Hafler Trio may instead want to consider adding these to their album pages directly (or create a new album page for the collaboration). AlexReynolds 10:23, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
Slip is a great song, but if I was going to pick one song to represent Autechre, I think it would be one of my last choices. It is immensely dissimilar from the majority of their work. If anyone else agrees and feels up to it, I think it should either be replaced or at least add 1 or 2 other songs in addition that would help to more accurately reflect Autechre's whole sound. WildlifeAnalysis 12:48, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
I agree. That is a much better way to represent their sound. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.107.225.216 ( talk) 16:59, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
I think we definitely have the potential to, it would expose quite a lot of people to Autechre! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.249.153.134 ( talk) 13:02, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
I just discovered a "Sto Lend" EP by Autechre on iTunes (Canada store). Here is the info:
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What the hell is this? I never heard of this Autechre EP before. Any additional info? -- FreedonNadd ( talk) 21:03, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
In 2008 an Autechre EP was released titled Sto Lend. It was released as a lost collection of tracks by the duo circa
1996-'97. The truth is, although it was made during that time period, it wasn't Autechre but by a group called Autopilot. Originally this EP was produced after a self titled limited edition CD by the duo of Se Jun Ho & Derek Marin and never released. What does tie this EP to Autechre themselves (other that it sorta does sound like them) is that some of the sounds where recycled from programed beats that were left on Roland R8 drum machine after a Warp event. Sean Booth & Rob Brown actually borrowed equipment from Derek Marin for the live show Autechre performed at a Blech party in NYC & in the process left beats on the machine. The beats were later used to create some of this recording. How the Sto Lend EP was released as an Autechre project is not
known but now it is finally available under it's true identity. To sum up: Yes it's not Autechre, Yes it was produced in 96/97, yes it does have some beats programmed by Autechre themselves & yes the Sto Lend EP was previously released by someone unknown under false pretenses.
I had a chance to talk to Booth before their performance this February in Graz, Austria. One of the topics that (as I think) could be included here is their music-making methods. Booth says that they are not using MAX/MSP or similar sequencing software any longer, but moved to using hardware (which includes both digital and analog devices). However, this information could not be verified, as that was purely personal chat (not an interview). However, the sound on Quaristice indirectly confirms this. Could I include information like this in the article? I am neuron ( talk) 13:20, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
Hold on, I have an interview from Future Music magazine in March 2008 that says they still use max/msp on quaristice. - Drthatguy ( talk) 09:43, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
Please do not restore this information to the article without a citation.-- BirgitteSB 03:21, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
This reference doesn't justify the setence in the article. Quoting from the interview: "He wanted text, so, yeah, we wrote some nonsense software. It's mostly Pascal, you know, kind of dated (laughs)."
So the sentence: "Autechre have experimented in depth with..." makes no sense with regards to SuperCollider.
A recent edit removed the sentence about Brown stating that the first couple of albums sounded, in retrospect, "cheesy". I've restored this. I don't necessarily agree with it myself, but it's relevant and it's referenced and it's surely of some interest to know what an artist thinks of their own work. I suppose it might eventually go in a section dedicated to critical responses to Autechre (I've half a mind to write one myself), but for the moment I think it's better where it is than not in the article at all. -- Camembert ( talk) 01:21, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
we need to keep a handle on WP:OR here. whilst Amber (colour) is undoubtedly the middle colour light on traffic signals, and Amber (album) is undoubtedly autechre's second album, to suggest any connection without a proper cite is pure WP:SYN -- Kaini ( talk) 02:14, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
Autechre's EPs are of equivalent importance as their albums and tidy enough to be easily listed, should they be listed along with the Studio albums in the quick discography? Neroli ( talk) 23:14, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
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