autechre pronunciation
db
> Hey,
> How do you say "Autechre"? What does this name mean? I've always
> pronounced it "aauu-tek-re".
I heard the two-man Ae crew pronounce the name on a video downloaded
last year. It was very distinctly 'awe-tek-err' with emphasis on the
'tek'. I usually tone down the 'tek' so I can spit it out quicker.
Ignore all "Audio Technology Research" type arguments.
db
Pope Emperor FrogMaN
cyberclay wrote:
>
> Hey,
> How do you say "Autechre"? What does this name mean? I've always
> pronounced it "aauu-tek-re".
>
> cyberclay
>
I was taught that it's "Oh-Teck-rr." About its meaning, though, I have
no idea.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Pope Emperor FrogMaN the ZermaCroYd GuAvAHeAd, XXXVIII
Patron Saint of Easy Cheese, Burrowing Worms, Lucia Pamela and those
Spotty Chocolate Egg Things They Sell At Easter.
Founder and King God of the Order of the Holy Guava and Burrowing Worm
http://home.earthlink.net/~rtoad -- It ain't just for breakfast any
more!
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
cyberclay
Hey,
How do you say "Autechre"? What does this name mean? I've always
pronounced it "aauu-tek-re".
Regards,
cyberclay
---
Perl/C/UNIX/Linux Hacker
http://www.hacked-inhabitants.com
Alex Cavaye
In article <65anf9$7...@news.cybernews.net>, cyberclay <cc...@shell.fastlane.net> wrote:
>Hey,
> How do you say "Autechre"? What does this name mean? I've always
>pronounced it "aauu-tek-re".
>
or if you're american
or-dek-ruh
=)
/\
\ .oOo. i am the xenophyte .oOo.
\
=) \ Man looks at the flower, the flower smiles.
\/
st...@dds.nl * http://huizen.dds.nl/~sturm * http://surf.to/606
soul beat runner
cyberclay wrote:
>
> Hey,
> How do you say "Autechre"? What does this name mean? I've always
> pronounced it "aauu-tek-re".
>
Awww tee cher
--
I don't care what's in your CD changer.
Remove the nospam if you want to email me.
jack
> How do you say "Autechre"? What does this name mean? I've always
> pronounced it "aauu-tek-re".
>
The band is on record saying that the name doesn't mean anything. Not
totally sure about pronunciation though... I think it's AW-tek-errr,
allowing for some differences in American and British pronunciations of
all words.
This question came up a while ago on R.M.I, and some people were saying
it stood for "Audio Technical Research" but as far as I know this is a
total myth, as interviews with the band explained the random source of
the name. Apparently they were using a random name-generator on a
computer or something like that, and came up with something similar, and
then shortened it to 8 characters (DOS file names.) This would seem to
agree with the fact that very few of their tracks are longer than 8
letters. Actually, are there any?
There was also a track called "Autriche", so I think this might be what
they came up with before Autechre, or around the same time, and then
released it. Someone said that this is the French word for "Austrian". I
don't know french, so I have no clue. Even so it's probably an
unintentional coincidence, or even a deliberate scrambling of the word,
or whatever. In any case, it doesn't really mean much on its own, only
in reference to the music.
My friends who don't listen to techno think it's German when they hear
the name, because it's a bit guttural I bet. Like some people thinking
of blue when they think of ice, because it's drawn that way.
I was thinking of making a little article like this for my Autechre
website. There's a page there of posts from RMI about the saying and
meaning of Autechre. Actually, this whole thread will probably get
posted onto that page as new stuff after it dies out. :-)
Side note: being in the USA, I had to special order my copy of Chiastic
Slide. When the HMV called to let me know it had arrived, the guy said
"Oh-TEK-rah." I shuddered. It sounded like cajun food.
jack
By the way, I forgot to put this in my post... here's my rational
opinion for choosing the way to say it. I saw the name in print and
pronounced it with a guess, and later on when I heard it out loud from
others I had been saying it right. I just chose the most common
pronunciations of the letter combinations in it, which is what I think
everybody does when they see a new word that they have no idea how to
say. It's a guess.
Note that I am not reading meanings into the word or creating an
acronym here, just giving justification for why I pronounce it a certain
way:
**"Au" as in "Paul" or "Austria" or "maul" or "caterwaul"... I can't
think of too many english words that have "au" pronounced as "OW" or
plain long O.... there's "gauche" but it's actually taken from french
("left"), and although funny, (esp. on TV show frasier) it's not used
very often. I think most of the words like that are taken from french. I
had it as a vocab word in high school... otherwise I'd have no clue! :-)
**"Tech" as in, well, "technology" (any others?)
**"re" as in a lot of British spellings of english words that end in
"er"... like "centre", "metre", etc.
As for where the accent goes, I don't know why... maybe because
"Au-TECH-re" sounds like "pecker." ??
-dto
weird things feed me
jack wrote:
> 8 characters (DOS file names.) This would seem to
> agree with the fact that very few of their tracks are longer than 8
> letters. Actually, are there any?
second bad vilbel
(and c/pach wouldn't be a vaild dos file name, even if it is less than 8
letters)
no recent tracks have had longer titles, though.
np: plaid "milh"
--
Here lies a youth who died of consumption:
you know why
Do not pray for him