Re: sampling in avant garde and pop music

on 1/13/04 3:43 PM, Nudebruno@aol.com at Nudebruno@aol.com wrote: Sorry to drag this one out but if you are examining sampling, surely you have to acknowledge that it was, if anything, technology driven. If Akai had not brought out affordable samplers in the early eighties, contemporary music would be radically different. Great point. You can havethe greatest ideas in the world, but unless there's an approachable medium by which to realize those ideas, you're not gonna get your point across. Cheap & easy to learn music equipment is often at the core of trends in pop music since at least Jimi hendrix. sh