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Sep 13, 2011 - 09:30 AM |
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Fantasia on a Sample in Two Movements (Op. 1) |
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OK, so I swear some of you will think I'm trolling, but this is completely serious: a couple of years back, I made what I called a "spam-mix" by looping and fucking with a sample for 9 minutes of music. I've recently started listening to it again, and I realized something: this is ultraminimalism, in the way of Reich's early sound experiments. I don't claim this to be as important as "It's Gonna Rain", but I do want to let y'all know that I made this before I actually knew about that song.
As such, I rechristened the piece "Fantasia on a Sample" with movement divisions, put my actual name as the artist (rather than my username), and labeled it my Op. 1.
When listening to it (repeatedly; I'm crazy), you can notice interesting beat patterns forming from the way the off-set samples interact, as well as the chords created by the samples being pitch-shifted and manipulated. I honestly love when the "choir" comes in towards the end of the first movement: as the stacked/pitch-shifted samples play simultaneously, we have the same chord progression occurring in different keys and it just gives me goosebumps. Again, I'm crazy, so take what I have to say with a grain of salt. I've since lost the Acid file I made into the song, so I can't really say off-hand what I had the pitch offsets at for any of the parts.
So now that I'm done explaining my thought process for dubbing what was a joke track into a "classical" piece of music, I present, for your pleasure(?), "Fantasia on a Sample (Op. 1)" for Sample and Asynchronous Drum Loop (I. Theme. / II. Variation and Coda). With apologies to Gloria Gaynor and Steve Reich.
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