His quest for cross-cultural epiphanies never privileges one tradition over the other, but fuses both in a riot of rhythm and color that redefines the term 'world music. In both pieces, Ziporyn explores the blurring of boundaries that results from the interaction between Western technology and Balinese gamelan. Tire Fire is written for gamelan and electric guitars while Amok! is scored for gamelan and digital sampler. The results of his creative endeavors elude classification in cultural pigeonholes.īoth works on this disc are extended pieces for full Balinese gamelan with various Western instruments. Since 1979, Evan Ziporyn, a member of the Bang on a Can All Stars, has devoted an extraordinary amount of effort toward the study and performance of traditional Balinese music. Take a listen to the third track of Amok! and elsewhere on this CD to hear the results. What if a first-rate American musician seriously studied Balinese gamelan and started to combine it with electric bass, bowed bass and processed samples of gamelan sounds, all done with a sympathetic ear out for techno and rock? Well, one has, and his name is Evan Ziporyn. Insert your disc while Logic is running, click on the options tab in the EXS, you should then see an option to Convert Akai disc.Gamelan Galak Tika Robert Black, double bass Eric Byers, Mark Stewart, electric guitars Yukiko Ueno, keyboard Blake Newman, electric bass If you have an Akai sample disc, the EXSmkII sampler within Logic will convert those files for you. Then just use the Import Audio option in Logic. If your going to commit to the disc, then copy the contents to your designated samples location.

You can import Aiff/Wav/Acid Loops directly into Logic. Getting all the way back to your subject, Sample CDs in Logic. For example, if going for a heavy industrial/rock piece, more than likely you would not grab an Indonesian gamelan patch. That will automatically rule out quite a few options. Don't panic, keep your focus on what kind of piece you are trying to create. It will automatically create the appropriate instrument for you.

If you are accessing the Apple Jam packs within Logic, all you do is drag the loop or instrument you want from Logics loop browser to the arrange window. They're similar to Logics sample packs in that they contain midi/audio files grouped together into a package. 0.6 MB » 068 bpm saz-loop.wav 1.1 MB » 077 bpm sitar-kick-snare.wav 0.5 MB » 087 bpm stretchy-jig.wav 0.9 MB » 088 bpm berimbau-groove.wav 2.6 MB » 093 bpm pygmies.wav 0.3 MB » 095-3beat-whistle-loop. Last question first, 'Refill Packs' are for the software Reason by Propellerheads. All of the samples on this site are free to download, but registration is required to help us fight robots.

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