Re: [microsound] Sampling (was projects)

[Kassen <kassen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Andrews;

> 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.

In a old dutch text on techniques of signal manipulation if found "sampling"
translated as "monsteren" and a sample (both in the one byte and one
recording sense) as "monster". What I found interesting is that this dutch
word roughly means "scientiffic specimen", it´s identical in meaning to
"sample" in english in the context of "blood sample" or "soil sample".

This use of words, unsoiled by the change of meaning Ian comments on because
soon afterwards it became convention in dutch to borrow such words from
english, seems to concentrate on the sample originally being a part of a
bigger whole and of cource the implication is that it would also be
representative of the larger structure it originally belonged to. The manual
of my s612 cheerfully proclaims this is in fact the case.....

I´m not sure where that way of thinking leads, if anywhere, but I find it a
facinating way to look at it so I thought I´d share, perhaps it will lead
somebody else somewhere usefull.

Yours,
Kas.



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