On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Peter Hollo wrote:
| Not bothering to make one's samples in tune is as sloppy as badly
| cutting up samples so that there's clicking, or not aligning samples so
| that the rhythms don't match (which, unfortunately, is something that
| marrs a couple of the tracks on Neotropic's otherwise excellent new
| album). It seriously reduces the effect of a piece of music.
Probably being a complete pedant here, but upon agreeing really whole
heartedly with most of what Peter wrote, I feel an urge to say "It _can_
seriously reduce the effect of a piece of music", and, sure, it probably
does most of the time. Granted, we're probably talking in the context of a
track all in a well-tempered scale, suddenly having something going
decidedly flat in the midst of it.
(I can also think of plenty of tracks with cool clicking samples, and
loose timing... :)
I've found this whole thing quite interesting, because there're a lot of
things I do musically, common to a lot of IDM, that leave me having a lot
of trouble finding the resultant tuning. I just hope I get it right, but
now I'm slightly paranoid there're legions of people out there who will be
whincing at my tunings.
I'm thinking of stuff like cutting off a lot of frequencies, and band pass
filters at high resonance; and time-stretched percussion sounds which can
take on conflicting pitches...
Michael
np. 'Inflatable Rasta Wig (Deflated)' - Mono TM
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