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Database: Amon Tobin On Sampling
“[Sampling] was about capturing the energy the recording like a photograph. If you look at sports photographs–someone in mid-air jumping. You can tell what happened before and what’s going to happen after, but in that frozen moment you have all the energy of both things encapsulated. And that’s more or less how I viewed sampling: Continue reading
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Prepare Close At Hand Possibilities, Then Reap The Random
Recently I was building a track out of samples from one of my recordings. I was recycling bits of looped, pitched-down audio, delighting in defamiliarizing myself with music I knew well. Having found a few samples that got along, I reached the stage of being curious about how the audio converted to MIDI might sound Continue reading
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Database: Ricardo Villalobos On Spaces and Reverbs
“What I try to do with electronic music is try to sound as good and free and as spacey as an acoustic recording. This is the big reference for me, but it’s nearly impossible. Because the electronic frequencies are more defined and the rooms, you have to create rooms with spaces and reverbs. All the Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Adam Gopnik’s “The Real Work: The Mystery Of Mastery” (2023)
“At the core of the mystery is a lesson we can too easily miss. It has to do with the way one time talks to another. We talk about things we prize, art above all, as ‘timeless.’ It’s the most familiar generalization we make: it’s a timeless picture, a timeless melody, or even a timeless Continue reading
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Database: James Holden On Process As A Living System
“I usually sneak it up on myself, like I start designing an instrument and then the songs come out by accident as a result. It’s weird–sometimes I’ll go in the studio and something will come out by itself, but the process and the method of it is really important to me. I have to have Continue reading
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