Certainly Apple has improved
Certainly Apple has improved enormously. At the beginning, the sampling rate was an issue for me, but a bigger argument was over digital rights, which I had. Gail Zappa
Sampling
I could take a
I could take a cow and implant a camera in it and let it amble around the city or in its own domain (I say a cow because a human being I would not trust). If the camera was programmed to go off at an indeterminate series of moments, the samplings would be fantastic. Frederick … Read more
On one hand you
On one hand you have a string quartet, which is not a symphony. On the other hand is you have me sampling them and making it sound like there is many more people playing, so the whole notion of, kind of, sampling applied to classical music is very intriguing to me because composers throughout history … Read more
The easiest thing I
The easiest thing I can say is simple, but paradoxical in this era of total sampling: Be original. DJ Spooky
When you’re coming up
When you’re coming up with different ways of getting old memories to transform – you’re scratching, you’re doing all this kind of sampling – what ends up happening is that you’re becoming a kind of writer with sound. DJ Spooky
DJ culture is all
DJ culture is all about collage – sampling, splicing, dicing – everything is part of the mix, and there are no boundaries between sound sources. When you apply the same logic to the environment, there’s a lot of room for mapping sampling techniques to the environment itself. DJ Spooky
I think that the
I think that the audience intuitively understands the idea of sampling and remixing stories. That’s why electronic music is global. DJ Spooky
Sampling is a new
Sampling is a new way of doing something that’s been with us for a long time […] The mix breaks free from the old associations. New contexts form from old. The script gets flipped. The languages evolve and learn to speak in new forms, new thoughts. The sound of thought becomes legible again at the … Read more
The purely random sample
The purely random sample is the only kind that can be examined with confidence by means of statistical theory, but there is one things wrong with it. It is so difficult and expensive to obtain for many uses that sheer cost eliminates it. A more economical substitute, which is almost universally used in such fields … Read more
I think that in
I think that in a certain sense, we’re concerned about the same issues. How do you accent the progressive, the prophetic, those things that are critical of all forms of injustice, all forms of bigotry, all forms of dehumanizing other people, and yet still allow for a certain kind of flow, linguistic flow, certain kinds … Read more