Otomo Yoshihide - The Night Before The Death Of The Sampling Virus




"This conceptual recording by the Tokyo avant-garde composer was a groundbreaking experiment in deconstruction released in 1993. The piece is based on a system that exploits the malfunction of the CD player, whereby the listener is instructed to play the CD in shuffle mode to achieve a random replay of very small fragments of sound and thus hear an entirely different piece of music with repeated listens. Much in the way that Oval worked with the destabilization of the CD medium."

CD released on Extreme in 1993.

The Night Before The Death Of The Sampling Virus

2 comments:

Certifiablockhead 22 November 2015 at 00:09  

the fragments are noise and the possibility to play shuffle with them hints at fun...cheerio...

Anonymous,  2 January 2017 at 04:42  

Thanks for this.