AE_LIVE 2022－

WARP444

AE_LIVE 2022－, otherwise known as twentytwentytwo, is a compilation of seven soundboard recordings taken from live shows performed throughout 2022. It was released on August 10th, 2023, and was first confirmed to be in the works by Sean during a Twitch AMA, on June 5th, 2022.

History

During the Twitch AMA on June 5th, 2022, Sean answered a few questions regarding the live material after having performed the first show of the twentytwentytwo tour. The tour was initially planned to be held in 2020, before the COVID-19 pandemic delayed the tour. Sean mentioned that on his end, he spent the time reworking the back end, getting interested in MC (multi-channel audio in max), physical modelling and scratching, with the last one seeing use on Gescom's AMKS_1. [1] The end product was Sean noting that they had at least 3 and a half hours of material prepared.

The first show of the tour was performed at Primavera in Barcolena on the 3rd of June. In the AMA, Sean mentioned that that particular show did not go well, as they had to negotiate the rights to the soundboard from Primavera before messing up the recording regardless causing it to be left off the initial 2022 batch.[2]

On October 4th, 2022, "AE_LIVE_HELSINKI_110922_LTD" was released early exclusively to attendants of the show, with the reasoning being due to technical issues during the show.[3] Small glitches started to materialize a third into the show, which progressively became so distracting that by the last third of the show, it was plagued with loud pops and audio dropouts. Explanation for the issues reigned in on it being due to the poor subwoofer setup and system clock drift, which in combination with the heavy subbass in the set caused a coil short circuit in the speakers.[4][5] The soundboard was left unmastered for this release, and later rereleased with proper mastering.

On August 7th, 2023, Warp sent out an announcement to sign up for to the newsletter. The following day, AE_LIVE 2022－ was officially announced, and the first batch of shows from Milan 2022 to Turin 2022 was released individually and as a compilation on the 10th. The hyphen added to the end of the title indicated the possibility of future sets being added at a later date.

In a Mastodon post on November 18th, 2023, he gave an update that the material was up to "about 4 hours long so far and growing steadily." [6]

Tracklist


#	Title	Length
1	AE_LIVE_MILAN_010722	1:06:56
2	AE_LIVE_ATHENS_050722	1:20:03
3	AE_LIVE_HELSINKI_110922	1:11:07
4	AE_LIVE_LONDON_071022_A	59:48
5	AE_LIVE_LONDON_071022_B	59:33
6	AE_LIVE_BERGEN_021122	1:07:59
7	AE_LIVE_TURIN_041122	1:00:45
Total		7:46:12

Trivia

One of the notable tracks to appear in the "Set A" material is "ecol4" from PLUS. [7]
During a mixlr stream on March 30th, 2020, Sean skimmed through some of their jam folders, which included two snippets of material from the Set A material.
In December 2022, Sean posted two max demos to Mastodon; one on the 10th and one on the 15th.It has since been confirmed to be live show patches as both appeared in the Sydney and Dublin sets.
- In the top right corner of the 15th December demo, "three tone" is written, possibly indicating the section title.
- Also in the 15th demo, one of the files loaded into a sampler (likely indicating a sample used in the live material) is Gap Band's "Burn Rubber On Me (Why You Wanna Hurt Me)"
The CAT number, WARP444, was likely specifically requested by Autechre, to reference the song "444" off their first album, Incunabula.
The main cover art for AE_LIVE 2022－ consists of all the individual set art overlaid on top of each other.