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Just a brief aside about the sampler This was a machine about the size of a VCR That allowed its user to record any sound into it For quick playback and arrangement With a sampler, any drumbeat Any guitar riff, any sound that could be recorded Could be used as part of a new composition A new contextualization Nowadays almost all commercially produced music Has been at least in part realized with a sampler But electronic based music genre has Pioneered the creative use of samplers Older bits of sampling were appropriated Perhaps under the assumption of there being able to be Really used in the spirit of the pledge to new forms In other words, sampling was not seen as really rehashing past sounds But as an attempt to make new from something old Culture, like science and technology, grows by accretion Each new creator building on the works of those who came before By virtue of being able to freely appropriate on the musical past To make new combinations and thus new meanings The story demonstrates that a society quote "Free to borrow and build upon the past Is culturally richer than a controlled one" Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful As under protecting it Culture is impossible without rich public domain Nothing today, like nothing since we attained fire Is generally new Make new from something old An artistic strategy as time honored as creative expression itself End of recording