On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Joshua Reuven wrote:
quoted 5 lines as someone who creates music myself...i hate sampling...i feel no sense> as someone who creates music myself...i hate sampling...i feel no sense
> of accomplishment by stealing someone elses beat or sound and inserting
> it into my own work. i even have problems with taking someone else's
> sound and mutilating it beyond recognition...it's still not my sound...
>
I think you're too hard on sampling. I'm a partisan in that I love
nothing more than finding a cool bit to work and make my own. I really
feel that taking parts of another piece and reworking it in a new context
really does constitute creativity.
I'm not talking Puff Daddy, or the sub-Puff Will Smith, whose latest
hit "Wild Wild West" rips a Stevie Wonder track, and then subjects it to
a totally inept re-performance. I'm talking finding parts of tracks and
repurposing them. I have a favorite track that is constructed by sampling
individual notes and chords from Thelonius Monk and resequencing them
into an original arrangements. Is it not mine? I think it is.
Many well-liked IDM musicians make pieces almost exclusively out of samples.
Luke Vibert? Amon Tobin?