Database: Wolfgang Voigt On Sampling’s Magic Momentum

“I like a certain music, I throw it in my sampler, I modulate it, transform it, deform it, and so on. But I only use particular material as a starting point because I want its specific sonic world to appear in my music. I want there to be a connection but, ideally, I don’t want you to realize what it is. The end result can even be quite blurred. I tend more and more toward abstraction in the music – so that you no longer think ‘What could that be?’ Because it could have been anything. Nevertheless, it is important that it was there in the background in the beginning – behind what I put in the foreground. This is a spiritual thing. I throw these spices into this obscure musical soup, but in the end you will not know where it all comes from. And actually you shouldn’t know. The music should speak for itself.”

“An essence is preserved. And it’s precisely in this inexplicable realm, in the momentum that samples bring with them, where the magic lies for me, the magic of music.”

Wolfgang Voigt



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