Quaristice

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Quaristice

Quaristice.jpg

Artist Autechre
Released 3 March 2008
Label Warp Records (WARP333)
Untilted
(2005) 		Quaristice Digital Exclusives EP
(2008)

Quaristice is the ninth studio album by Autechre released on Warp Records. It was originally released on March 3rd, 2008. Alongside the release of Quaristice was the limited edition Quaristice (Versions), followed a few months later by Digital Exclusives EP and Quaristice.Quadrange.ep.ae.

History

In interviews, Autechre(?) mentioned that much of Quaristice's material was recorded used the same setup as the accompanying tour, listing "Apple Mac G4, Elektron Machinedrum and Monomachine, Clavia Nord Modular G2 and Nord Rack, Yamaha FS1R, Akai MPC1000, Alesis QuadraVerb and Lexicon PCM 80 and 90."[1] The same interview explores further that they mainly recorded long jams, up to "two hour-long jams a day", before spending 6 months to roughly edit down to 6-8 minutes, which were then even further edited down. After the rough edit they used MOTU Digital Performer for the proper final mixes.[2] Sean mentioned in a 2008 FutureMusic interview that there was a four month period of "just pure listening through and editing."[3]

Cover

Quaristice was the first new artwork commissions by The Designers Republic after a 10-year hiatus since Chiastic Slide. [4] Quaristice and Quaristice.Quadrange.ep.ae also marks the first time Autechre had covers made for individual tracks. Other releases to also have individual track art include Oversteps and elseq 1-5.

Tracks

Altibzz

  • The title possibly comes from Audioease's Altiverb.

The Plc

  • The vocal samples on the outro of "The Plc" are from Run-DMC's "Here We Go (Live at the Funhouse)" [5]

IO

  • As demonstrated by Landon Lechner, the main melodic line alternates between two whole-tone scale lines, one ascending and one descending. When viewed in piano roll, it forms an X. [6]
  • The first versions of "IO" appeared during the 2005-2007 live sets. (example) and 2008 live sets. (example).

plyPhon

  • "plyPhon" was made by Rob on the MPC.[7]

Perlence

  • For "Perlence", the MPC bits were done by Rob and the Machinedrum/Monomachine bits were done by Sean. [8][9]
  • The snare sound in "Perlence" is the TRX Clap.[10]

SonDEremawe

Simmm

paralel Suns

  • Sean mentioned that "paralel Suns" was made by first recording a Nord Lead 1 through Lexicon reverb, which was then edited down in Digital Performer by having the "slabs" crossfade into each other to get the final track. [11]

Steels

  • Elements of "Steels" made an appearance in the 2008 live sets. (example)
  • In the Quaristice tour file dump, the MPC had a bunch of samples of sounds used in "Steels"; 64 samples of steeldif ("steeldif01.WAV" to "steeldif64.WAV") and 37 samples of steelxif ("steelxif01.WAV" to "steelxid37.WAV").

Tankakern

  • The TR-606 appears on "Tankakern" [12]
  • The main samples on Tankakern are of an old oil tank (likely the origin of the title) alongside birdsong that was recorded in that same garden. Sean also mentioned that the samples for Tankakern were also used for the Skeng mix, Gescom's "Tangle Ill", and "a few things." [13]

rale

  • "rale" was made by Sean with his laptop using Renoise. [14]

Fol3

  • "Fol3" was made by Sean with his laptop using Renoise. [14]

fwzE

90101-5l-l

bnc Castl

Theswere

WNSN

  • "WNSN" was made by Sean with his laptop using Renoise. [14]

chenc9

Notwo

Outh9X

  • "Outh9X" uses the NMG2 and Simmons SDE.[16]

nu-Nr6d

  • On the Japanese issue of Quaristice, the cover was altered to include the Japanese bonus track "nu-Nr6d" as part of the design.[17]

Quaristice (Versions)

WarpCD333X

Coinciding with the March 3rd release, a steel case edition of the Quaristice CD was released. It was limited to 1,000 copies and was sold out within a day after the announcement. In the limited edition CD set, a second disc is included, titled Quaristice (Versions), which consists of alternate and extended versions of certain tracks.

Altichyre

The PlclCpC

IO (mons)

  • This track was one of the few tracks to be released multiple times, appearing also on Digital Exclusives EP.

Phylopn

Perlence range3

SonDEre-ix

Tankraken

fol4

  • "fol4" was made by Sean with his laptop using Renoise. [14]

90101-61-01

chenc9-x

nofour

Tracklist

# Title Length
1 Altibzz 2:52
2 The Plc 4:17
3 IO 3:08
4 plyPhon 2:33
5 Perlence 3:25
6 SonDEremawe 1:21
7 Simmm 5:00
8 paralel Suns 3:03
9 Steels 2:56
10 Tankakern 3:39
11 rale 3:43
12 Fol3 3:47
13 fwzE 2:39
14 90101-5l-l 3:11
15 bnc Castl 2:52
16 Theswere 2:12
17 WNSN 4:57
18 chenc9 4:57
19 Notwo 5:34
20 Outh9X 7:15
1:13:22
21 nu-Nr6d (Japanese CD exclusive) 3:51
1:17:13
Quaristice (Versions)
1 Altichyre 1:43
2 The PlclCpC 9:18
3 IO (mons) 7:52
4 Phylopn 2:40
5 Perlence range3 7:37
6 SonDEre-ix 3:27
7 Tankraken 5:28
8 fol4 11:41
9 90101-61-01 5:10
10 chenc9-x 8:29
11 nofour 4:24
1:07:55
Total 2:25:09

Trivia

  • The CAT number, WARP333, was likely specifically requested by Autechre.
  • At the time of release, Quaristice had the most tracks for a singe Autechre album, totally at 20 tracks (excluding the bonus track on the Japanese CD). It would eventually be beaten by elseq 1-5, which had 21 tracks.
  • On Hanalgig, a 2007 demo from the Quaristice sessions was leaked.

Gallery

  • Altibzz

    Altibzz

  • The Plc

    The Plc

  • IO

    IO

  • plyPhon

    plyPhon

  • Perlence

    Perlence

  • SonDEremawe

    SonDEremawe

  • Simmm

    Simmm

  • paralel Suns

    paralel Suns

  • Steels

    Steels

  • Tankakern

    Tankakern

  • rale

    rale

  • Fol3

    Fol3

  • fwzE

    fwzE

  • 90101-5l-l

    90101-5l-l

  • bnc Castl

    bnc Castl

  • Theswere

    Theswere

  • WNSN

    WNSN

  • chenc9

    chenc9

  • Notwo

    Notwo

  • Outh9X

    Outh9X

Links

Credits

References

  1. ↑ Easy to be Hard, April 2008. "Autechre's latest release, Quaristice (Warp, 2008), is more fuzzy and emotional than you might expect. Working on practically identical rigs in separate cities (Booth, Manchester; Brown, London), Autechre pursued conventional recording methods for past efforts like Confield (Warp, 2001) and Untilted (Warp, 2005), but Quaristice is the result of the duo's live improvisations, recorded largely on its touring setup: Apple Mac G4, Elektron Machinedrum and Monomachine, Clavia Nord Modular G2 and Nord Rack, Yamaha FS1R, Akai MPC1000, Alesis QuadraVerb and Lexicon PCM 80 and 90."
  2. ↑ Easy to be Hard, April 2008. "“This album was made from really long live jam sessions,” Booth explains. “When I moved to Manchester in 2005, the first thing we did was set up a new studio with the live kit and record these really long jams. It turned out good, so we just kept doing it and writing new stuff with the same setup. Having that ability and so much drive capacity nowadays makes it easy to record everything. We did two hour-long jams a day. It took six months to edit it all down to six- or eight-minute tracks. Then we would reduce them again and again. We had a lot of different versions to choose from. We were also reusing bits of sequences from other tracks. Once we got them in a rough format, we used [MOTU] Digital Performer for all the editing.”"
  3. ↑ FutureMusic Interview, 2008. "SB: "We did have about four months of just pure listening through and editing, but Digital Performer has all those new tools like Slide, where you can move the audio within the sections.""
  4. ↑ https://www.thedesignersrepublic.com/quaristice
  5. ↑ https://www.whosampled.com/sample/126386/Autechre-The-Plc-Run-DMC-Here-We-Go-(Live-at-the-Funhouse)/
  6. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAZPhRLqpOs
  7. ↑ Sean Twitch AMA, June 2022. "No, plyPhon was, I think it was MPC. It's Rob’s, so you've got to ask him."
  8. ↑ Sean Twitch AMA, July 2022. "Some of the tracks that [Rob] did with [the MPC] like Perlence, I think are just fucking amazing."
  9. ↑ https://forum.watmm.com/topic/102698-twitch-ama/?do=findComment&comment=2923175
  10. ↑ Q28, WATMM Ask Autechre Anything, November 2013
  11. ↑ Sean Twitch AMA, July 2022. "paralel Suns is a Nord Lead 1 through a Lexicon reverb, and then slabs of that were then taken, and kind of edited and faded into each other, kind of thing. So I had loads of different notes in the DAW, which I think was DP at the time. And then I was doing loads of crossfading between all these different slabs. So yeah, it's a bit long process really to get the result, considering it's just a sort of short ambient thing. But it was, it gives it that weird wet but dry sound, so."
  12. ↑ FutureMusic Interview, 2008. "Is that the trusty old TR-606 Drumatix dusted down for an appearance on the track Tankakern? RB: "As with every album, a facet of the older stuff perhaps comes alive again."
  13. ↑ Sean Twitch AMA, June 2022. "do you use bird samples? i’m fairly certain theres some in tankakern and the… Yeah, that's true. There is, I think there is in Tankakern because Tankakern was an oil tank in the garden, or one of the sounds was. And yeah, there were birds in the garden. So I've used that old tank on a few things. It's on Tankakern but it's on the Skeng mix and a few things. Still got them samples. I think the first track we used them on was Tangle Ill?"
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 Sean Twitch AMA, July 2022. "Is there a major shift in your methodology around the transition from Untilted to Quaristice? What was going on behind the scenes? Yeah, I mean, fuck, you know a lot of stuff for me. I mean my dad died in 2004, so that was a blow and that sent me off on a weird spiral of not knowing where the fuck I was or who I was, and then a lot of stuff that my family had kept from me came out, and then we toured and then, I'm not gonna talk about any of that stuff, so don't ask. And then me and Chantal [Passamonte, fka Mira Calix] split up [in] 2005 and then I moved to Manchester and I hardly had a studio for ages because we were just doing gigs for money. So for about three years, I didn't really have a studio. I just had kind of a live setup on a desk in a room and my speakers and a mixer and I was building a studio up slowly while we were doing that. So Quaristice is the sort of sound of me putting the studio back together, plus a few tracks that I did on my laptop in Renoise, sort of mixed in there. So like, Fol3, fol4, WNSN, rale, they’re all Renoise tracks. And then there's a bunch of like, Rob’s MPC things, you know, Rob was doing like MPC tracks and then yeah, I don't know like, that was a good fit, so yeah. I don't know, like a bit of a mixed bag really, of things happening, you know what I mean? But I was enjoying being in Manchester in my new space and feeling quite free and liberated and not really wanting to work with DAWs because I felt like I'd reached a bit of a ceiling with them and I didn't really want to go much further into it. I started getting a bit bored with timeline sequencing. Starting just wanting to do things in the room and have a bit more of a live vibe to them, which was a bit more like a return to roots, which is the kind of thing you do when you just split up with your wife that you've been with for ten years, you know I mean? So in a lot of ways, I was returning to my roots, really, you know, going back up to Manchester and then doing all that. I hope that offers some understandable context for that."
  15. ↑ Interview with SB for Reverb Magazine, January 2008. "Having had the pleasure of taking in your live set in Glasgow back in April ’05 (and being totally blown away), I wondered if any of the material released on Quaristice had featured in some guise or other in that Untilted tour…was sure I detected something familiar about chenc9 for example? Yeah, a couple of bits, there were a couple of bits here and there…yeah there’s one riff right at the end of chenc9 and the bass thing. It’s hard to remember now, we did so many versions and re-versions and odd mixes of a melody of this bit and melody off that bit, it all got really mushy."
  16. ↑ Q1004, WATMM Ask Autechre Anything, November 2013
  17. ↑ https://ia802202.us.archive.org/21/items/mbid-8bc65240-4c57-4f21-b49f-fb80f0bea5bb/mbid-8bc65240-4c57-4f21-b49f-fb80f0bea5bb-35945482710.jpg
  18. ↑ https://www.discogs.com/master/2472-Autechre-Quaristice
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