tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4717049262192491343.post2283771680835786390..comments2023-06-24T13:59:34.426+01:00Comments on Serenity Science: Beginnings....Paul Schlosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13199868818372352870noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4717049262192491343.post-10559933402441725272010-03-23T23:21:26.209+00:002010-03-23T23:21:26.209+00:00Ideas, you say. Many many years ago I had an idea,...Ideas, you say. Many many years ago I had an idea, an idea which over time became an obsession, an obsession which became an all-consuming flame, a flame which consumed my very existance, as I shall reveal in the following narrative. "I intend to put together a musical composition composed entirely of excerpts of existant audio recordings, utilising rhythms, melodies and various fragments of other people's musical endeavours culled from LP and cassette tape" I said to myself, as though it were a magic spell.<br /><br />Locking myself away from the quotidian concerns of a disinterested and 'trendy' world, I toiled alone, chopping and fashioning reel-to-reel tape into a coherent whole whilst never losing sight of my goal. <br /><br />After many troublesome years, my work drew close to completion. Following the suggestion of a much younger musician of my acquaintance, I solicited the visit to my home of a representative of the Japanese corporation Akai. He arrived at my house with a machine known as the S900 digital sampler, and placed a record on my gramophone by the American combo Grandmaster Flash entitled "Adventures on the Wheels of Steel".<br /><br />My defence against the charge of murder on the grounds of intellectual copyright and patent theft was thrown out by the judge, nor would he accept the defence of provocation. My one consolation is that my "tune" (as my cellmate insists on calling it) has the inherent warmth of third harmonic distortion which is a characteristic of analogue tape.<br /><br />Best wishesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com