Éclat Part 128

Avatar eclatcrew | November 19, 2024

We're very lucky to be welcoming performer, makeup artist and producer GodXXX Noirphiles as today's Guest Curator!

Adrian Marie Blount or GodXXX Noirphiles is a California born- non binary- loving single parent - multidisciplinary/ Time-based media artist residing in Berlin, Germany since 2016. Adrian has traveled throughout the United States performing in various reputable theaters. In Germany, Adrian directed Qweendom at Theater Oberhausen and has Art Directed for House of Living Colors’ notable production series, ‘Endangered Species,’ for Orangerie, English Theater Berlin and Tanztage at Sophiensaele. Their solo works have been featured at Emerging Change festival at Ufer Studios, Underworld: Mycelium at Ballhaus Berlin, Münchner Kammerspiele, English Theatre Berlin, Oyoun and more. They also have guest mentored and lectured at Universitat der Kunst. Additionally, they have been featured in productions at Volksbühne, Maxim Gorki Theater, Ballhaus Naunynstrasse and beyond. Recently, Blount’s premier multi disciplinary sculptural installation was featured at the Germanisches National Museum.

Watch Adrian's most recent release 'Goodbye' on Youtube below.

GodXXX Noirphiles wears facepaint of blue daisies on a blue background, a white suit jacket and a bright read head wrap

Adrian is currently crowdfunding for their relocation out of Germany. You can contribute to their campaign on GoFundMe here.

Download tonight's sample pack from WeTransfer here!

This week's challenge is to samples from this pack, plus any other samples or sounds you like, to make a track of ~ 2 minutes long. You can warp, edit, chop and mangle the samples in any way that you like!

Submit your track to this Google Drive by 20:30pm, and then rejoin the Zoom call at 21:00 for our listening session!

Check out what we made below!

For tips on how to chop up longer samples for use in your productions, check out the tutorials below.

 

Chopping Samples in Ableton with Underbelly
Chopping Samples in Ableton with Underbelly
Chopping Samples with Ableton Simpler
Chopping Samples with Ableton Simpler
Bwana: Sampling from Youtube
Bwana: Sampling from Youtube
Logic: Sampling in Logic with “How to sample like Kanye West”
Logic: Sampling in Logic with “How to sample like Kanye West”
Sampling: The Best way to make a Sampled hip hop beat
Sampling: The Best way to make a Sampled hip hop beat

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Chopping Samples in Ableton with Underbelly
Chopping Samples with Ableton Simpler
Bwana: Sampling from Youtube
Logic: Sampling in Logic with “How to sample like Kanye West”
Sampling: The Best way to make a Sampled hip hop beat
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