At 11:09 AM 4/29/01 -0700, Shane Schaetz wrote:
>interesting stuff from www.matthewherbert.com
WTF?
>1. The use of sounds that exist already, subject to article 2, is not
>allowed. In particular:
>
> 1.. No drum machines.
Oh come on, no one uses drum machines anymore! It's all sequenced drum hits
now...
> 2.. All keyboard sounds must be edited in some way: no factory presets or
>pre programmed patches are allowed.
"Gasp! You used patch A62 on the Roland JP-8000! You should be sentenced to
death for that!"
>2. Only sounds that are gernerated at the start of the compositional process
>or taken from the artist's own prevously unused archive are available for
>sampling. The use of, ordering and manipulation of noise-sound/found-sound
>is to be held as the highest priority in composition.
Okay, I'll admit, sampling yourself is a cool idea.
>3. The sampling of other people's music is strictly forbidden.
"Uh! Hitmeh! Yeahboyyyee! I know yo gonna dig this!"
>4. No replication of traditional acoustic instruments is allowed where the
>financial and physical possibility of using the real ones exists.
But if the financial and physical possibility DOESN'T exist...
>7. All fx settings must be edited: no factory preset or pre-programmed
>patches are allowed.
"Oh no!! Not that Lexicon "Hall Reverb 3"! Anything but that!"
>8. Samples themselves are not to be truncated from the rear since extra
>audio and recording information is often heard at the end.
<click! pop!>
Well, I guess he doesn't do 2-step garage then.
>9. A notation of every sound, its source and a full description of all
>technical equipment used per track to be taken and made available at a
>future date.
So where can we see this?
>10. Remixes must be completed using only the sounds provided by the original
>artist including any packaging the media was provided in.
And the horse they rode in on.
Elson / e:trinity
Hey, I've never used an "Amen" break on any of my recordings. Should I put
that in writing too?
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