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Re: This Sampling debate

Since we're speaking of Mister Frank Zappa, I'd like to ask if anyone has
heard his Civilization Phase III ? That to me is his best work ever. State
of the art musicians, sampling, mixing, and just about everything else. And
it's pretty funny to listen to all the "in-betweener"parts of speech.
Jeff Collins

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen P. Goodman <sgoodman@earthlight.net>
To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com <>
Date: Saturday, August 29, 1998 6:54 PM
Subject: RE: This Sampling debate


>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.
>
>Stephen Goodman - It's... The Loop Of The Week (E.G. Marshall)!
>EarthLight Studios - http://www.earthlight.net/Studios
>
>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...
>
>