Creativity Quote by Sean Booth

A musician talking about visual form like it’s a half-finished instrument is peak Sean Booth: curious, cagey, and quietly obsessive. The line lands in that sweet spot between revelation and refusal. He offers a tantalizing spec - graphics that read as both flat and volumetric at once - then clamps down: “I can’t really elaborate.” It’s not coyness for its own sake; it’s an ethos. In the Autechre universe, process is the product, and the audience is invited to hear (and see) the edges of an idea while it’s still mutating.

The phrase “quite into” understates the ambition, which is part of the charm. Booth frames a potentially brain-bending aesthetic problem in the language of a hobbyist, as if they’re casually tinkering with perception itself. That understatement is also a defense against over-interpretation: don’t turn this into a manifesto, because the work isn’t done.

The subtext is about maintaining the productive tension between precision and uncertainty. “Simultaneously two- and three-dimensional” mirrors what Autechre’s music often does: it feels engineered and alien, yet emotionally physical - rhythms that behave like objects, spaces that feel like machines dreaming. Admitting they “haven’t really perfected it” is a rare, human crack in the usual aura of algorithmic mastery. It positions experimentation as an ongoing state, not a finished brand, and it keeps the mystique intact by grounding it in craft: you don’t explain the trick while you’re still building it.