[microsound] Sampling (was projects)

[Ian Andrews <i.andrews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The word "sampling" seems to have more than one meaning. The original
meaning, perhaps first coined by EMU or Fairlight for the first digital
samplers (I don't believe that analogue samplers were actually called
samplers at the time), was closer to recording (in general). It was implied
that to sample something was to record sound into the machine via a
microphone. Gradually that first meaning has been superseded by a meaning
which is much closer to "appropriation." I would think that most people when
they use the term sampling today, are referring to the process of
re-recording a short section of pre-recorded sound.
Also "sampling" connotes brevity. This makes it distinct from "recording"
which is usually used to describe the capture of much longer segments of
sound. So in this sense field recording is not sampling (unless the
recordings are very short).

tobias c. van Veenwrote:

> It's not very obvious at all. I mean at the level of the concept. Somebody
> diesnged that architecture, created that sine wave. Aren't you sampling
> that? If you've read Curtis Roads, or anyone else on electronic sound, then
> you know that processes themselves are concepts. Ie contents. And sampling a
> process is sampling. Sampling doesn't necessarily refer to a finished piece
> of work: as Trace implies, field recording is a form of sampling too. You're
> just sampling nature. tV
> 
>>> What constitutes non-sampled content today?
>> 
>> Isnt that very obvious? If you sample it, it is sampled.
>> 
>> There have been analog samplers around - from the Mellotron to maybe the
>> pitch-changing/time-stretching tape machines the germans made under
>> WW-II.
>> 
>> While I personally love using analog sound electronics those who create
>> with digital samples can continue doing so - just ask for a permission.
>> I dont see the significance of that requirement. Just do it. And even
>> without permission, for "artsy" type installations/concerts there is
>> never any trouble - there is no point in suing someone that doesnt have
>> any money.
>> 
>> 
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