From jovian f. Sent Sat, Jun 19th 1999, 00:08
From jovian f. Sent Sat, Jun 19th 1999, 00:08
At 03:43 PM 6/18/99 -0500, you wrote: >no, i'm agreeing with sampling as a practice, and that it's up to the >artist to do what they want to with it, if they use it. i don't even own a >sampler. > >it just seems like the general idea is that it's "preferred" when an >alteration is made to the sample, to, if nothing else, make it more of a >creation, rather than just a sample. > of course, the artists i respect (and what i try to do) use samples as strictly a starting point, in the same way a synthesist would use an oscillator.. instead of a square wave or a sine wave, you're using a voice or a rhythm.. you retain something of the feel, in the same way that the little anomalies in a tb-303 sawtooth wave lend it character.. in this way, it's actually less of a shortcut than using a synth or programming a drum machine since in those cases the signal path is already predefined.. it's closer to modular synthesis, really, since you're taking a sound source into a sampler, tuning it, stretching it into time, splicing it up, running it through effects/other synths, resampling, repeating the process, etc.. of course, there is something to be said for using a sample fairly "straight" as commentary (say, EBN) or for humour value (Luke Vibert, etc.).. though we all know the real reason IDM artists alter the samples is because most don't have the budget to pay those outrageous copyright infringement fees ;) - jove --- "music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have below." (harold adamson) impending gigs - Plur My Ass! - June 30th, 1999 drop modulation audio - http://members.tripod.com/drop_modulation __ ICQ# 26360618 "Example: Where can I find information about the hobby pyrotechnics?" (alta-vista)