Pink Floyd-esque?
Okay, sure! I'm a fan of sampling. My rule: if you think they will be cool with it, give them credit somewhere. If they're corporate scum who sue people like me, let them go nameless.
I, however, am cool with it. Give me a nod in your credits, and send me an mp3 with my noise in it. I'd love that.
Mind one thing, though... some of these are on my album. Sampling is kin to quoting someone... so think of the context from which I use each noise in my album. If you don't like the context, you may not want to refer back to it. I consider sampling to be pretty much like what a lot of writers do at beginnings of books: they quote some poet or a whatever, and that gives the rest of the work a point of reference for the reader's thoughts.
Because of this, I use samples carefully. I think they can be used to set mood (like a quote in a book), or to conjure up an idea that is expressed best through another person's work (like "don't count your eggs before they hatch" or something like that). In our society, we are constantly making reference to common things, like they do on Seinfeld when they discuss everyday crap such as brands of candy bars... so why not in music?
Why is their a stigma surrounding samples that implies theft? Why aren't musical samples considered on the same level as people quoting Shakespeare, or artists who use "found objects" to create their work of art?
Of course, you may use my noises. By making them public on the internet, I am fairly well agreeing to their useage by others. No prob. I figure that's okay, as long as someone wasn't trying to sample like... a whole song or something, and sell that; or if they purposely plastered your name all over their album to garner your sales when you have nothing to do with it.. that would be lame. But, I've done none of these things, so I guess that's all groovy. Well, I'm going to stop now. Have fun.
DaveX
