So I was watching this video of a group of composers who are talking together for a company called Spitfire Audio. Spitfire audio has become a great resource to me for both samples and tutorials/ input on composing. I’m posting this here because I recently researched and posted some content from archives in the Living Histories archive. I found it interesting while looking at those photos and videos of how it gives us the ability to look into another time and that if we didn’t have those kinds of photos, we wouldn’t really clearly know what it looked like. The time before photographs we had to rally on details descriptions which are not the same. Anyways... during this discussion they talked about samples of particular musicians in this way. They referenced an Oboe player that Hans Zimmer created a sample set of his playing. After these samples were done (not too sure how much time) this player started to loose his ability to play as well as he did, and he actually chucked his Oboe into the River Thames because he could not play as well anymore. Hans then shares how thankful he is for these samples because it’s like he still has that players old ability through the detailed samples he has. Even though the players loose their abilities over time, with great sampling, we can almost keep that players style alive. It is similar to songs or recordings I guess, but with these samples, you can have these ‘musicians’ play new pieces long after they are able to themselves. Here is a link to the video- https://www.spitfireaudio.com/hans-zimmer-round-table/?utm_source=Spitfire+MASTER+List&utm_campaign=296659f4e6-HansZimmerStrings_roundtable_25032018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_df4ead2b5d-296659f4e6-344168793
