Re: [microsound] about samples

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interesting.
readymades? collage?
visual artists have been using appropriated images/objects for quite some
time. is the issue time? context?
what is the distinction between the works of visual artists who do this and
what bjork is doing?
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From: e.g.ø <glere@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 7:45 AM
Subject: [microsound] about samples


> Hi,
> I don't want to be polemic, but what satisfaction may have an artist
> in using other people sounds? Yes, of course I know that if one wants
> to make a song with a 808 drum, surely those sounds will be the same
> as many other use (the same can be said for a piano or a violin).. but
> talking about samples as a "long" sound or pattern... what
> satisfaction may have an artist in using other people work? I'm
> thinking about bjork (and matmos) that in her last record has used and
> rearranged various sounds (from to rococo rot or oval or Console
> (Martin Gretschmann) whose one of his song has been taken as is and
> BJork has just put her voice over it)... surely these songs with Bjork
> voice are wonderful, but isn't that a sort of a remix rather than an
> artistic creation?
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> for the musician on the list: do you try to use only "self-made"
> sounds or do you steal them? and what do you steal?
>
> ciao
> e.g.ø :: http://eeegggooo.cjb.net
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> > Are these samples only for the competition, as far as free use. I was
> > really impressed with some of them and wouldnt mind cutting them up?
> > cheers
> > le>>+h@n
> >  Ant Weiss wrote:What an addictive toy - this horizon!
> > Fiddle a bit with the beautiful, somewhat mystical interface, press a
>  button
> > and in a matter of seconds there's your own sound
> > added to database, with your name signed on it!
> > Really nice ! :)
> > I'll definitely submit something to the competition.
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