Monday, February 7, 2011

Sampling Reactions

"America is Waiting" Byrne & Eno
My very first reaction to this piece is "this is Daft Punk spilled together, then looped forever." A majority of the samplings in this piece are very electronic sounds, and only very occasionally do you hear voices or acoustic instruments fade in and out. I feel like all the samplings made for this piece were actual individual, everyday sounds, but they've been put together so well that it sounds simply like music made through the computer, and I'm second guessing myself constantly. It seems to be a collection of very random and different sounds that were put together in something coherent.

"Get Down, Get Down" Emergency Broadcasting Network
This piece is hilarious. Perhaps annoying through the intro and it was definitely stuck in my head for some time afterwards, but hilarious nevertheless. It seems that the artist (artists?) took clips from the Emergency Broadcasting Network to create a new audio track. In a way, it almost serves as a summary for the EBN by combining a number of intense vocal simples and very chaotic and grating sound effects in the background. I love that all the samplings come from the same source to create a unified thing, but it is still chaotic in the end.

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