In a message dated 13/1/04 2:31:27 am, zorn-list-request@mailman.xmission.com writes:

what musician or composer do you feel really pushed the boundaries of what
> sampling can be for their genre?

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.

Connected to the sampling thread, there was recently in the UK a fantastic tv documentary on the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Not sure if this has been picked up anywhere else, but essential viewing if you can catch it. It explored the working methods of Delia Derbyshire, Milton Babbitt et al, fascinating stuff, and a strange mix of pioneering spirit set in the civil servants environment.