Continuing off from the last post I’m continuing to look into other pieces of work that include sampling. This piece is titled Amateur doubles by Graham Lambkin.
Graham records a car journey through America, recording the ambience of the car, the people and conversations within it and the audio. He then cuts up and splices the audio in a music concretè type fashion to create a 39-minute runtime album that explores this area of sound arts. Reusing sounds in different contexts.
I found the drone-like sounds in his compositions and the occasional voices to be haunting. The cheap-sounding synth with strange lead compositions plays over the top and I’m not sure if I enjoy that. I think maybe without these keys playing it would be a more interesting-sounding piece. Currently, it feels like he just decided to play over it?
So in terms of reflectional elements, I think music concrete is one outlook I should consider when doing my other two pieces using musical elements and perhaps other things that incorporate within my culture? Re contextualise ordinary sounds within Brazil?