Wanted to understand what “sampling” is and found this YouTube series demonstrating it. Very interesting.
Can someone link me an example track with extreme, baroque amounts of sampling? The videos above are rather simple/tutorial type.
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Also guy in videos seems to mainly do looping of short segments and overlay synthesized drums. Are there other common atomic patterns? Do people do stuff like create “sampled fugues” with 2 non-percussion samples in parallel? Or is it mostly loop-and-add-percussion?
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Well this seems to be a whole bunnytrail 🧐
Wonder if you could do sampling with text or cinema
Like samples of politicians mouthing cliches strung together. I guess they do versions of that in memes and attack ads.
Sampling seems interestingly orthogonal to generative ML.
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I saw a whole re-edit of the Obi-Wan show into a 2-hour movie, which I guess is a kind of sampling. Wonder if there’s examples of say inserting a scene from Jurassic park into spider-man. But with more than just short absurd joke results. Like a proper 2h spliced movie.
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You could argue that reboot shows like Cobra Kai “sample” their origin material (karate kid movies). It’s not quite flashbacks, but recontextualized archives.
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Lots of good links and examples in the replies to the OT, in case anyone else is coming in cold to this whole concept like me
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Yes there is sample counterpoint. The typical pattern is to loop a sample with drums, then intersperse other samples of varying lengths. Samples are also chopped and screwed (reversed, inverted etc). Think like a sonic collage
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youtu.be/6ZYLp5uX9Yw Don't know if this directly answers your question or not but it's amazing
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you're describing Steve Reich's tape loops. he uses two samples of a street preacher here and plays with the timing to create the phasing/rhythmic effects



