Since Trilbe's been thinking about DJs and electronic music, I thought I'd contribute some work by one of my favorite musicians ever, DJ Shadow:
DJ Shadow's album, Endtroducing, was (I believe) one of the first albums ever to be composed entirely of samples from other musicians. We've brought up, in class, a LFT creative process which involves a subdivision of ideas. To make a video poem, for example, there seem to be couple of types of subdivision: of medium, where one idea is expressed in multiple formats; and of idea, where one idea is broken into pieces which are displayed simultaneously.
To play devil's advocate, though, doesn't text poetry involve a kind of subdivision of ideas, where ideas which, in prose, would be perhaps 'limited' to semantics, in poetry get expressed simultaneously by prosodic techniques?
Anyhow. I'm drawn to sampling, and to DJ Shadow, who seems to be not just subdividing ideas but uniting others' fragments and creating an atmosphere out of those seams.
This is absolutely one of my favorite albums. Love that you posted it. The 90's had a hunger to its electronica, some kind of meat to its forking tongue. Something pre-apocolyptic, a restlessness. A pea under the massive American pillow.
ReplyDeleteIn the broadest sense, LFT accuses everything of being sampled, and of involving forms of subdivision —a substantiation of this accusation may be traced to some current understandings of the big bang.
ReplyDeleteIn a bifurcating or subdividing system, everything is connected to an initial split or set of subdivisions, and anything may reconnect, temporarily, on some scale in some location for some duration of time.
An ability to form atmospheres seems to support abilities to create something new, but LFT argues that a new configuration is still to some degree derivative or collaborative —dependent on something that already exists to catapult the configuration further from where the contributing tines went.
Constant reshuffling of matter. of substance, of big bang energy.