This song marks the beginning of my love for sampling. It was the summer of 2004 and I was living in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, on Nostrand Ave. This was the third apartment I had moved to since graduating from architecture school. I made this with Reason on a desktop PC using a sample from a Dave Brubeck piano solo. I forget the name of the original song. I cut up one or two bars of the original song, drew a composition of the samples on a grid with the mouse, played the composition as an endless loop, then applied filter envelope and delay. I then switched between adjusting the cutoff and resonance of the filter envelope, and recorded the session with Audacity. I also used Audacity to trim the session down to what this piece is now, but I made no other editing – no splicing or mastering.

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