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SIGN is the fourteenth studio album by Autechre released on Warp Records. SIGN was first announced on September 2nd, 2020, then on October 8th, it was livestreamed via Autechre’s website in full, and made available for download shortly afterwards on October 16th. Three weeks later, it would be followed up by their fifteenth album PLUS, which released on October 28th.
History
Much of SIGN was done using a ported version of their rig in Max for Ableton Live,[1] as well as MC Max.[2]
Tracks
M4 Lema
- Deckard's Dream was used on "M4 Lema". [3]
F7
- Elements on "F7" appear in the 2022 live sets. (example)
si00
esc desc
au14
- The title could be an abbreviation for "autechre 14", in accordance to the 14th album motif.
Metaz form8
sch.mefd 2
gr4
th red a
psin AM
- Elements on "psin AM" appear in the 2022 live sets. (example)
- In the 15 December 2022 max demo, the synthesizer in channel 9 is called "psinAMbq.MC", likely indicating that module was the origin for the title of "psin AM".
r cazt
n Cur
Tracklist
| # | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | M4 Lema | 8:50 |
| 2 | F7 | 5:57 |
| 3 | si00 | 5:51 |
| 4 | esc desc | 4:56 |
| 5 | au14 | 5:04 |
| 6 | Metaz form8 | 6:00 |
| 7 | sch.mefd 2 | 5:26 |
| 8 | gr4 | 3:21 |
| 9 | th red a | 6:36 |
| 10 | psin AM | 6:20 |
| 11 | r cazt | 7:12 |
| 1:05:32 | ||
| 12 | n Cur [Japanese CD exclusive] | 6:15 |
| Total | 1:11:47 | |
Trivia
- One theory is that the catalogue numbers were chosen such that each digit adds up to 14 (3+2+9) to match SIGN being the 14th album.
- In an interview with the New York Times, Rob mentioned that the title SIGN is "an initialization, but we don't want to tell anybody what it stands for." [4]
- It should be noted that, in a first for Autechre, the CD versions for both SIGN and PLUS use different artworks. In SIGN's case, the dark grey background has been replaced with a solid black one.[5]
Links
Credits
- Autechre (production)
- Rob Brown (writer)
- Sean Booth (writer)
- Noel Summerville (mastering engineer)
- The Designers Republic (design) [6]
References
- ↑ Sean Twitch AMA, June 2022. "And then there's a version that’s ported to [Max for Ableton] Live before we did SIGN and PLUS and all that was very different because there's not as much recursion in it. It's a kind of top-down, kind of, control hierarchy and I'd say both of them are good systems, but they're very different the way that the rig works in Max, when we're running it in Max is that everything's real-time. So, everything's informing everything else and there's a lot more cross-communication. So, there is no hierarchy as such, it's more of a web of interactions, whereas the Ableton stuff is very hierarchical. It's, there's a kind of top layer of control information and then everything else responds to that, and that's how SIGN was done, and I'm, I got a bit bored with it, if I'm being honest. It was like, it's good, but I prefer the web to the tree."
- ↑ Sean Twitch AMA, July 2022. "Have you used MC Max much? Yeah. Quite a lot. It's really flexible and amazing basically, I really rate it. I think MC's like, yeah, just amazing, and it's kind of weird because I've been doing like massively polyphonic kind of stuff and then suddenly MC popped up and it was like, oh okay! It just gave me a whole new way of looking at it, so. Used it quite a bit on SIGN actually, which you might be able to hear."
- ↑ Sean Twitch AMA, June 2022. "Yeah, first track on SIGN [M4 Lema], it's on there. That DekDre [Scap B], that's why it's called DekDre."
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/arts/music/autechre-sign-interview.html
- ↑ https://www.discogs.com/release/16065078-Autechre-SIGN/image/SW1hZ2U6NTQ0MTE4ODY=
- ↑ https://www.discogs.com/master/1819720-Autechre-SIGN