Autechre - NTS Session 4 POLL

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

wow! really surprised frane got 0

ugh, you "all end" people

This was closer than I thought. I mean column thirteen almost won!

who was the other mirrage voter

a totally worthy winner. and since it got the most votes of any track in the four polls it's officially the best track of all!

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These are insane results, 'all end' is a scam (or a joke). Pretty sure it's just the other tracks run through Paulstretch. Most throwaway track out of all four sessions.

you're right that 'all end' is a timestretched version of the end of bladelores (from Exai)

i see where you're coming from in your frustration with it. it probably took them 5 minutes to accomplish (not counting the time it took to make Bladelores). and pretty much anything that is relatively short sounds pretty damn great when stretched out to an hour (imo). so it can be seen/heard as a lazy gimmick.

on the other hand, the degree of difficulty in making a track has nothing to do with the emotional impact that it has on a listener, or the enjoyment that they get out of when thinking of it conceptually, even. that's not a new argument, i don't think - i imagine a bunch of people debated this when monochromatic paintings were all the rage

I get that, and I know people love the sound of extreme timestretching, but I also did not get enjoyment out of it. Mostly because that sound is very familiar to me and I'm burned out on it (primarily from messing around with it on my own).

Cool to know that's the source track though, thanks.

i'm 99% sure that's right (i found it on some reddit thread)

i know Lowell N. Behold'n identified the source on one of the autechre thread, but i couldn't find it.

Sean said as much in an interview - either the one for Italian Rolling Stone or the interview they did in Japan when they played there this year.

nope, it was p4k: https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/autechre-interview-nts-sessions-david-lynch-where-code-meets-music/

it's not timestretched though? it's the exact same pitch/octave with no artifacts or anything... just a longer extrapolation of that section/patch

I think those algorithms/plugins are able to extend duration without changing pitch, by repeating tiny slivers of the waveform (like granular synthesis if I understand it right)

what would've been nice is mentioning this poll in Poll 3 so we could've noticed it before it closed.

i'd've voted column thirteen.

Hey we never polled the individual discs, did we? We should get on that. I still listen to this (well parts of it) at least once a week

Create it! Will be a tough choice for me.

it's "column thirteen"