{"id":380,"date":"2011-02-04T11:00:58","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=380"},"modified":"2011-02-04T11:00:58","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T11:00:58","slug":"what_is_all_this_scratching_of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2011\/02\/what_is_all_this_scratching_of\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is All This Scratching of Records?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Though I don&#8217;t have a personal Milton Babbitt anecdote to relate to you (sadly, I never had the pleasure), I do have a favorite Babbitt quote. It&#8217;s from <a href=\"http:\/\/newmusicbox.org\/article.nmbx?id=1545\">our NewMusicBox interview with the composer<\/a>, during which he turned the Q&amp;A tables to ask Frank J. Oteri to explain sampling to him. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t even know what hip hop is, to be honest with you. Do you understand hip-hop?&#8221; he inquired, seeming genuinely perplexed and curious. &#8220;What is all this scratching of records?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>For those of you out there similarly confused, Aaron LaCrate offers a quick primer on the language of sampling using two turntables for NPR&#8217;s <i>Science Friday<\/i>, which appears alongside a discussion of the current ethical issues related to this method of creating new music geared to the newbie. Take the Sampling 101 crash course <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingscience.org\/2011\/01\/sampling-101\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though I don&#8217;t have a personal Milton Babbitt anecdote to relate to you (sadly, I never had the pleasure), I do have a favorite Babbitt quote. It&#8217;s from our NewMusicBox interview with the composer, during which he turned the Q&amp;A tables to ask Frank J. Oteri to explain sampling to him. &#8220;I don&#8217;t even know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}