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Discussion on: Music Monday — What are you listening to? (Best Interpolation Edition)

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Michael Tharrington

Haha, all good! The concept of interpolation is definitely a difficult one.

First off, I love the songs that you sent over. These are freaking great.

I think rather than an interpolation, Michael Bublé is actually doing a full "cover" of "On an Evening in Roma (Sott'er celo de Roma)"

This video here does a pretty good job of explaining the difference between covering, interpolating, and sampling a song from a legal perspective.

In short though, usually an interpolation is just when you play (physically play, i.e. not sample) a small snippet of a song within your own song to reference it. Oftentimes, you'll see guitarists in jam bands do it... they're playing a song and then start improvising and might quickly reference another song by playing a little short snippet of the song. That'd be interpolation!

I'm going to make an analogy to writing... Covering a song is a bit like going to write a post and copying someone else's post in it's entirety, whereas interpolating a song is more like quoting a sentence from someone else's post and putting it in your own original post.

Hope that makes sense!

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Schemetastic (Rodrigo)

Okay, I think I've got it now, thanks for the video, haha.

Yeah, from time to time you knwo, I hear music and I know that I know the melody from somewhere else... right now I can't fin an example of that but now I get it.

SoI guess that sampling is a thing that tochno and house artists do a lot?

Interesting!

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Michael Tharrington

Exactly!

Sampling is def something that techno & house musicians do a bunch. Also, hip hop is big on sampling. The origins of hip hop were built on sampling... you'd have someone DJ'ing records, physically looping the breakbeat in a funk song, and an MC (rapper) rhyming on top of it.

Here's a quick video talking about how it all happened. 🙂

On the note of techno and house musicians, I think Daft Punk is a group that really took sampling to an awesomely artistic place. Here's a video about their album Discovery and why what they did is so special!

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Schemetastic (Rodrigo)

Very interesting videos! The story about Hip-hop was very cool, and the Daft Punk video was extremely insane!

I had to hear Face to Face after watching that part.

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Michael Tharrington

Thanks fo watching, Rodrigo!

I get pretty siked about music and can go a little overboard with the suggestions sometimes 😅, so appreciate you taking the time to check out both!

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Schemetastic (Rodrigo)

I get you, music is something I couldn't live without, If I had to choose between music and web development I would have a really hard time making that choice.

BTW, I have a friend that is a huge fan of Daft Punk, for sure I'll send him that video. Thank you!