{"id":840,"date":"2025-02-25T18:46:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T07:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/x37v.com\/x37v\/?p=840"},"modified":"2025-02-26T00:07:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T13:07:23","slug":"autechres-critical-theory-generator-for-the-lovebytes-2001-catalog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/x37v.com\/x37v\/max\/autechres-critical-theory-generator-for-the-lovebytes-2001-catalog\/","title":{"rendered":"Autechre’s Critical Theory Generator for the Lovebytes 2001 catalog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A little while ago, I had a flood and \u2014 among other things \u2014 all my vinyl got damaged. Packed alongside the vinyl, I found the catalog (also water damaged) for Lovebytes 2001<\/em> \u2014 an electronic arts festival which ran in the early 2000s. (I guess it must have been thrown in as some promo gear along with something I purchased from Warp at the time because I didn’t make it to the festival itself.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A water-damaged Lovebytes<\/em> 2001<\/em> catalog.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Flicking through the catalog, it’s a lovely snapshot of the time \u2014 reminiscent of zine culture<\/a> \u2014 that carries the enigmatic optimism the scene seethed with: there are shorts in there about Eric<\/a> Singer<\/a>, interviews with Jeremy Bernstein<\/a>, and articles about Oval written in fonts too small to read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Late in the catalog, there is a verbose treatise that discusses the works of Booth, Brown, Autechre, and Gescom. I’d long wondered what it was and I only just stumbled across the answer: it’s text from a “critical theory generator” made by Autechre (with Max of course) to generate their “manifesto for the lovebytes 2001<\/em> catalogue”. The explanation was originally posted in a Q&A microsite (q 4 ae<\/em>) on the Warp Records website. It’s hard to find again on archive.org, but some of the questions\/answers have been reposted on WATMM<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I didn’t manage to find a digitised version of this online, so I’ve scanned it and uploaded it to archive.org for posterity: https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/autechre-critical-theory-generator-for-lovebytes-2001<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A little while ago, I had a flood and \u2014 among other things \u2014 all my vinyl got damaged. Packed alongside the vinyl, I found the catalog (also water damaged) for Lovebytes 2001 \u2014 an electronic arts festival which ran in the early 2000s. (I guess it must have been thrown in as some promo gear along […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-max"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4SgL0-dy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/x37v.com\/x37v\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/x37v.com\/x37v\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/x37v.com\/x37v\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x37v.com\/x37v\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x37v.com\/x37v\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/x37v.com\/x37v\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":852,"href":"https:\/\/x37v.com\/x37v\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions\/852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/x37v.com\/x37v\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x37v.com\/x37v\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x37v.com\/x37v\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}