In an effort to practice what we have been introduced to in the second block of Creative Sound Projects, I decided to sample a full symphony from Mozart and not only alter the piece itself through tape effects, but to also use this as a practice for improvisation and arrangement.

After recording the piece to tape using normal playback speed, 1.5x playback speed, and my slowing down and pausing the piece at improvised intervals, I arranged them alongside each other in a session in pro tools. I used the 1/8 inch out put on the cassette recorder to transfer the recording from the cassette to the DAW, and in protools I used automation to create volume swells and gradual panning across the tracks. Once I established an environment from the original samples, I improvised over the entire piece with an alto saxophone, a Moog Subsequent 25, and an acoustic guitar to create the illusion of three voices communicating to each other.

The piece is my first attempt to interpret sampling in my own practice. SAMPLE NO.1 (2023).