Expanding my perspective on sampling and the culture, possibilities, and textures around it is something that I am looking forward to in the second half of the Creative Sound Projects Module. While I have some insight on to the history and what I enjoy from sampling, I have not incorporated it into my practice yet.

Beginning with Pierre Schaffer and moving in through the 50s and 60s with music concrete tape looping made many appearances within the music I grew up with listening to. Artists usage include The Beatles in “Tomorrow Never Knows” and “I am the Walrus” as well as in Pink Floyd’s “Money” looping gardening tools to symbolise currency. However, through high school and now in university most of the music I listen to that utilises sampling stops in the year 1999, as The Beastie Boys and Sublime are a few of only the artists that I listen to who regularly use sampling as a medium for composition.

I plan on using what I learn in this module to incorporate traditional sampling and abelton live into my creative practice, focusing on music concrete and looping natural sounds.