Vibrations and how they get to your ears.
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John Oswald: “Z24”
On Plunderphonics
from the liner notes:
In 1993 we bought every version of ‘Also sprach Zarathustra’ available on CD. There were two dozen of them. We lined them up on a multi-track so the horn entry begins at the same point for all tracks, so the very beginning, where the organ pedal tone comes in, is earlier for some versions than others, and, beyond the horn entry things begin to smear, because none of the versions are in exactly the same tempo, so the degree of the smear increases as it goes along, and some versions end about twenty seconds later than others. I scaled the dynamics a bit to fit the climax in.
