A soft, slightly fluffy rectangle I made yesterday. Playing with new techniques - mainly working without a hoop and using a binding stitch on the edge.
I think maybe it's a bookmark?
It's about 10cm x 5cm, wool and mohair, just playing on a scrap left over from making costumes for rocks.
recent posts about sampling have me thinking about Justice's † [Cross] again....
There are three credited samples present on the album: "You Make Me Wanna Wiggle" by The Brothers Johnson was sampled for "Newjack", "Tenebre (main theme)" by Simonetti-Morante-Pignatelli was sampled for "Phantom" and "Phantom Pt. II", and "Night on Disco Mountain" by David Shire was sampled for "Stress". However, it also incorporates unrecognisable "microsamples" from hundreds of albums.
2007 interview (interesting in other regards as well):
Do you prefer sampling or creating your own sounds when making music?
Gaspard Augé: I have a personal-pride problem with sampling. But we were arguing about it, and in the end I agreed with Xavier that the result is the only thing that matters.
Xavier de Rosnay: I think this is a standard process in making electronic music — the important thing is to not be frustrated at the end. There are only three recognizable samples on the whole album, and we did not try to hide them. All the rest are microsamples that even the authors could not recognize. And there are some you can have some suspicions, but you can't be sure it's coming from what you think it is.
2008 interview:
Justice -- best known on these shores for their 2007 VMA-nominated hit, "D.A.N.C.E." -- inhabit more of a gray area. Conflicting stories have arisen over the extent of their sampling: Fans speculate that from zero to 100 percent of the group's music is sampled.
"I know why stories are conflicting," de Rosnay said. "Because we do sample really small bits of things that nobody can recognize.
"Say we use the 'In Da Club' hand clap -- not even 50 Cent would notice," he continued. "But if you listen to 'Genesis,' the first track [on †], there are samples of Slipknot, Queen and 50 Cent, but they are such short samples no one can recognize them. The ones from Slipknot, for example, are just tiny bits of the voice."
Other samples that fans claim to have found within Justice's musical maze include Three 6 Mafia, Devo, Britney Spears and Madonna. But the duo want a few of the samples to be easily identifiable.
"Sometimes we do also use big samples," de Rosnay said. "On the album, we used three big samples that we had to clear, and all the rest are just impossible to recognize. We're using the very short samples to improve the sound, because we are just writing melodies on piano and then we are listing each note taken from other records, so we make a trade between those notes and the proper loops."
De Rosnay then sat down at his MacBook, reminiscent of the way, say, Josh Groban sits down at a piano. He pressed "play" and then "stop" quickly enough to release a millisecond of sound from a song that's destined to remain a mystery to everyone but him.
"Just like that!" he said triumphantly. Repeat ad infinitum for most of the duo's songs. "That's why it takes so long to do."
I'm assuming that this is why Cross—and Planisphère, an EP they made shortly after Cross (check it out!)—have such a rich sound and texture. maybe it's confirmation bias but they really do feel to me like they have that kind of fabric brushing against my ears
I wish they had kept working with that style....none of their later work (AVD onward) feels as deep to me (or rly grabs me in general). though the process of using that many tiny samples admittedly sounds exhausting, even without the threat of lawsuits for sampling :(
Records make a difference. I ain’t gon’ lie… It’s way harder than the new way of making traditional beats, but it’s what continues to keep some of us around after all these years. Inspiration dwells in the HUNT. Grateful for both the mindset and skill set.
Little Vapor-bap remix of this song by Ghost n Pals and Lumi:
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Tbh I've been wanting to remix this song for a while. It's so eerie and, well, ghostly... it's really unlike any other vocaloid song I've heard.
Also features samples from a random podcast I was listening to at the time and an old New Orleans Bounce song, though idk if that's enough to really call this bounce.