Digital Sampling: The Design and Use of Music Technologies Paul Harkins from Focal Press is written in two parts: Digital Sampling begins with an exploration of the Fairlight CMI and how artists like Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel used it to sample the sounds of everyday life. It also focuses on E-mu Systems and the use of its keyboards and drum machines in hip-hop. The second part follows users across a range of musical worlds, including US/UK garage, indie folk music, and electronic music made from the sounds of sewers, war zones, and crematoriums.
PRELUDE/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Introduction
Part I: Instruments
Chapter 1 – Tomorrow’s Music Today: The Fairlight CMI Series I and II
Chapter 2 – Page R and the Art of the Loop: The Fairlight CMI Series II, IIx, and III
Chapter 3 – Technologies of Hip-Hop: The E-mu Emulator, SP-12, and SP-1200
Interlude: Methodologies
Part II: Users
Chapter 4 – Microsampling: Akufen and Todd Edwards
Chapter 5 – Appropriation, Additive Approaches, and Accidents: Found
Chapter 6 – Foot Pedals and Folk Music: King Creosote
Chapter 7 – The Sounds of Everyday Life (and Death): Matthew HerbertConclusions
INTERVIEWS AND PERSONAL COMMUNICATION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
DISCOGRAPHY
INDEX