Sampling

This week we got to spend some time with the concepts of sampling. It was really interesting getting to take a deeper look into a technique that many of my favorite artists have implemented and instrumentalized in their music. I am a big fan of sampling and think it is a great way to add texture and life to a song and sometimes adds a lot of context to the message the song is attempting to get across.

I didn't connect much with sample stitch because I found it difficult to time the sounds in a way that was sonically pleasing to me as a lot of the excess sounds were bleeding in to what I was working with and were either too short or had too much layered noise for me to get any sort of cohesive sound of it (that were to my liking at least). I did however, really enjoy the concept and would love to my play with more software like this I’ve actually been looking into getting an Akai MPC Live 2 to use as sampler and drum machine or maybe even a couple of Teenage Engineering’s pocket operators which are similar but more synthesized.

Personally, I think that a big part of the human experience is atmospheric sound I think a big way music and technology can be humanized is to add texture atmospheric sounds to more music such as the reaction of wind hitting a microphone. I think it is difficult in theory to humanize technology without direct intent and emotion being involved which are two inherently animalistic or human traits. To give technology the ability to evoke emotion and to act with intention is, to some extent, to humanize it.