Amon Tobin - ISAM

The only thing it affects, is marketing. The music is already made. How he presents his approach to how he made the music that is already in existence, is pure marketing.

going off on a total tangent here : unfortunately 'marketing' in terms of distributing music is so intertwined with the image of a musician itself. these promo pics you see of musicians are purely marketing. This is why i respect people like Louis CK who when they put out generic black and white promo shots of themselves he subtitles them with 'me being a douche' because well it's kinda douchey and at least he's honest about it

(this above post was not in reference to Amon Tobin)

that's also the way he is marketing himself though

Marketing himself with spelling mistakes everywhere.

I feel sorry for you

Yes, that was my point. He is marketing himself.

we don't know anything about sound sculptures.

  On 2/24/2011 at 7:17 PM, troon said:

  On 2/24/2011 at 8:13 AM, Marked x 0ne said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrWKRaKcq04

swoon

Beautiful, I cannot wait for this new album. Amon Tobin's always been a favorite of mine and this album sounds really promising. I'm confused by the interview though, he mentions it being a logical step from the foley recorded sounds in Foley Room, yet also mentions there are no samples? Does he mean there's no samples of pre-existing works like many of his previous records or that he is actually not sampling or foley recording anything? I always found the way he manipulates samples to be one of the strengths of his sound, especially on the Foley Room album.

Edit: this is the part I'm talking about.. his responses here are confusing me.

"in many ways it's a logical step from sampling to foley/field recording to now the synthesis of field recordings incorporating acoustic modeling and multisampling techniques amongst other things.

Q:What gear / interesting technology / secret sauce went into making the record? Was every sound sampled?

A:

the sauce is secret I'm afraid because much of the software and instrument build techniques I've either developed myself or adapted specifically for my own needs. so perhaps less secret than irrelevant to anyone else. in any case it's safe to say there are no samples on this record."

does this strike anyone else as contradictory?

he's probably just saying there's no jazz drums or jazz samples maybe

  On 3/2/2011 at 8:26 AM, ghOsty said:

 

 

does this strike anyone else as contradictory?

he likely is referring to this

I think he means he recorded all his own samples.

He meant that he didn't sample anything. This album will probably be mostly similar to Foley Room and I'm more than happy about it.

  On 3/2/2011 at 1:33 PM, jules said:

I think he means he recorded all his own samples.

  On 3/2/2011 at 3:12 PM, Adam Beker said:

He meant that he didn't sample anything. This album will probably be mostly similar to Foley Room and I'm more than happy about it.

I kinda figured that's what he meant but I wasn't sure, if it is the progression in synthesizing field recordings from the techniques in Foley Room, I'm sure I'll love it (probably would even if it wasnt anyway Amon's never really disappointed)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbJwyTkCJk0&feature=player_embedded

Amon Tobin got a Kyma and recommended fingerboard by Carla herself

still waiting for the actual Spectral Morph part, didn't notice it myself and it's kind of one of my obsessions (spectral morphing)

i want this album now

i think it's about time someone makes an actual demonstrative video on what spectral morphing is. Amon tobin's video is the first and pretty much only match for it on youtube!

yeah I have no idea what this stuff is, but certainly cool sounds and nice rug mr tobin

overly analytical internet critic = me

toys

so is this an album about a mysql database engine or what ?

  On 2/24/2011 at 8:13 AM, Marked x 0ne said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrWKRaKcq04

this is lovely, but i miss the days when he made dance tracks instead of nature documentaries.

furthermore, the phrase "sound sculpture" makes me think of some tool making impossible noise in a museum gallery

indeed, a grinder to be exact.

tasty