SAMPLING NOTES
It’s wasn’t till after the second world war that sampling became popular coinciding with the creation of the tape recorder in Germany. (Yet another invention born from war and struggle). The whole use of tape recorders differ from modern technology now, you could only play the sound back once, then it was erased forever.
Pierre Shaeffer got his hands on one very early on. THE GODFATHER OF SAMPLING.
Pioneered the ideas of Music Concrete and incorporating everyday sounds into early sonic works.
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LISTEN: Symphonie pour un homme seul by Pierre Henri and Shaeffer
HMV: When looking at the history of the logo, the dog is sitting on a coffin ‘listening’ to ‘his masters voice’ recorded before his death.