splash rhythms (was: Re: (idm) recommendations on Monolake & others)

From Richard Barnett
Sent Fri, Oct 15th 1999, 10:24

"Michael Upton" <xxx.xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote
> Subject: Re: (idm) recommendations on Monolake & others
> On Thu, 14 Oct 1999 14:24:59   Aronne J Merrelli wrote:
> 
> >So, what Monolake stuff features this kind of stuff ? 
> >(i.e., using nature sounds for rhythms)
> 
> At any rate, there's definitely nothing like that splash rhythm that FSOL used. FWIW, that rhythm is sampled extant from a piece of music. ie. people are playing that rhythm deliberately, it's not just some splashing sounds that FSOL got in time. I don't remember the details of the CD the sample is taken from, but it's been sampled several times by other people - I remember a track on the first Ninja Tunes compilation used it. The source CD is some kind of "world music" thing, with a few tracks of what it calls "water music".

FWIW, Jon Hassell used splash rhythms (possibly live or location-recorded rather than sampled, but I'm not sure) on "Dream Theory in Malaya", which is itself interesting as it was inspired by the hoax anthropological reports of a Malaysian tribe, the Senoi, who treated their dreams as challenges and tests to be overcome.

-- Richard