*”Our live set’s become increasingly complex recently; we’ve been doing stuff that’s been vastly too much information for most people to deal with and I think it’s quite interesting watching how people behave in those situations, under those circumstances.”*
—Autechre’s Sean Booth, 1997
It’s day 3 of my archival ambient advent calendar countdown to the 25th anniversary of Disquiet.com, which was founded December 13, 1996. [This interview](https://disquiet.com/1997/12/05/autechre-1997/) I did with half of Autechre in 1997 is probably the most-read thing on this website (er, blog).
And at a friend’s coaxing, here’s another highlight:
*Me: I think that the mathematician Joseph Fourier is a godfather of electronic music.*
*Booth: Hmm. Yeah, of course. That’s fucking absolutely true; it’s fucking absolutely — especially in terms of digital technology. I’ve always thought of digital manipulation — because of the way that basically working in the digital domain you’re using things that are approximating things.*
Read the full piece: [“More Songs About Buildings.”](https://disquiet.com/1997/12/05/autechre-1997/)