quoted 4 lines that sample is from a 12" that my girlfriend has, some old educational> that sample is from a 12" that my girlfriend has, some old educational
> record. it has an old(ish) man explaining filters, first he
> says something
> normally then throught the filter.
I am so disappointed by this. Here I am thinking that Luke Vibert was doing
some kind of deconstructivist exercise, laying bare the tools of his craft
within the song itself, a la the conceptual artist Alvin Lucier ("I am
sitting in a room, different from the one you are in now") - I thought it
was HIM speaking those lines. Granted, it's not a deep insight into the
nature of music making or technology, but it's still a critically
interesting aspect of that track. What's disappointing is that he used a
sample to put forward a somewhat interesting pedagogical concept into a
track when he could just as easily thought of and exectuted such a concept
by himself.
A lesser crime would have been if he heard that educational record and
decided that he would reproduce it with *his own voice*, or at least if he
had done something similar with other effects, maybe effects that are more
relevant to his idiom ("I am now speaking through a <insert VST plug in
here>."). But the fact that he would use a sample to create a
sound/lyric/lesson which literally would have taken five minutes to create
from scratch (less time than it probably took to sample the record) is kinda
sad. And the fact that he couldn't take inspiration from the educational
record and make something better is also sad.
For all you flamers out there (aka, those humorless closed-minded
tight-assed listmembers who didn't read the Tonya Headon site and laff your
asses off): I'm not saying sampling is bad or that Luke Vibert is bad. I'm
just saying its sad to see someone use a sample when doing the actual work
might have generated more interesting results without too much additional
effort.
-Cf
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