Squarepusher – Ultravisitor (Remastered)

In this long interview from Sound On Sound, Tom Jenkinson explains how he made the track "50 Cycles", from the 2004 album "Ultravisitor". Note that he mentions it being "the Vegas software, made by Sonic Foundry at the time". According to Wikipedia, "Sony Creative Software is a developer of various media software suites. Sony Creative Software was created in a 2003 deal with Madison media company Sonic Foundry in which it acquired its desktop product line, hired roughly 60% of employees, paid $18 million in cash, and took on certain liabilities and obligations." The link to Sonic Foundry even redirects to the Sony Creative Software page. Here's the quote from Jenkinson himself: "The track '50 Cycles' on Ultravisitor is a monster that took me a month to make. I used the Vegas software, made by Sonic Foundry at the time, to assemble literally thousands of edited pieces of audio, and it became something of monstrous complexity. I wanted cutting?edge digital signal processing and I wanted the most awkward, difficult, angular sounds."

By using the Internet Archive Wayback Machine (available at https://archive.org/web/) and searching for the page "http://www.squarepusher.net/justasouvenir/data/interviews.xml", it is possible to find various interviews that were gathered together over the years and kept at squarepusher.net until around the year of 2012, when the site was updated. In one of those (precisely the 2006 Rockin On' Magazine [Japan] interview), Tom is asked: "In ULTRAVISITOR, you revived the authentic Squarepusher sound by integrating the free jazz approach in Music is Rotted One Note and laptop originated sound in Go Plastic, Do You Know Squarepusher. Would you say that having recorded ULTRAVISITOR had a positive effect on HELLO EVERYTHING?" In his answer, he reveals the setup used in the Go Plastic album: "First of all, I didn't use a computer on Go Plastic. It was made with a Yamaha QY700, TX81[Z] and FS1R, an Eventide DSP4000 and Orville, an Akai S6000 and a Mackie 16 channel desk. Second, precisely what is the "authentic Squarepusher sound"? Although you seem to have made up your mind, I would be entertained to see if anybody agreed with you or each other! Certainly if there was a consensus, I would feel like I had failed to fufil my primary objective which is to rubbish the notion of the static artistic persona. The tendency to develop and change ideas, musical or otherwise is a hallmark of an active and intelligent mind -yet it is not prevalent in the sphere of music. Once musicians establish their "style", it appears that many feel compelled to take the safe option of sticking to it. The ironic thing is that repeating the same ideas over and over again gets pretty uninteresting and inevitably leads to stagnancy; thus their career is sabotaged by these very attempts to safeguard it. For me, to stick to some sort of style is to prematurely throw your artistic potential down the drain. Thus I assert that nobody could coherently state what the "Squarepusher sound" is. After recording the Ultravisitor material, I felt it was time to shift the compositional focus to simpler ideas."