RE: This Sampling debate

["Stephen P. Goodman" <sgoodman@earthlight.net>]

Is it just me, or do not all my posts go to the newsletter anymore?  Hmm,
perhaps it's Outlook98.... But I dunno.  This particular list has shown its
quirks... This one I decided to paste the email address in, as the default
one, for Andre, came up.

andre [mailto:andre@monmouth.com] put forth:

> And let's all go give Gabriel's "Security" or Zappa's "Jazz from Hell"
> another spin - both are colossally sample dependent - yet
> they each sampled all the sounds ...

Strange you'd say that.  Both those albums' only shared characteristic
involves the Synclavier, whose creators regarded FZ as their Most Feared
Support Call, because when he got in touch something ultra-complex was
afoot.  Frank was known in his time as a premier programmer of the
Synclavier, and was quoted in Keyboard magazine (the issue which, I
remember, had a completely different version of Jazz From Hell for the
monthly insert disk) regarding sampling as opposed to working from Factory
Default Settings.  I'll have to find this, because, from what I understood,
FZ didn't really begin experimenting with sampling until after "Jazz From
Hell" had already been recorded, and the sounds in "Jazz" were for the most
part programmed.

There were certainly some interesting bits that he shared with us in the
treatment given on A&E's Biography show, where he manipulates a lot of
specifically rude body sounds with the keyboard, giving them names like
"Gastric Surprise"; just another one of the things I wish he had been 
around
long enough to truly utilize.

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PS - from the Leno show this week, an ad that proclaimed, "So beautiful you
might mistake it for Art!"... thought it a bit apropo, eh?  Though one 
might
pronounce it "Beaut-ee-ful" at the time...