24/03/2018
Thinking and Moving Through Samples
Lecture by Daniel Blanga Gubbay and DJ set by Poly Chain
- Sampling is often seen in relation to the final song in which he is inserted, but what is the sample in itself? It is not simply a fragment, nor an example; its temporality also differs from the one of the trailer or the teaser. By taking the sample in the short moment after it has been extracted from a song, and before being part of the new one, this lecture investigates the peculiarity of the sample and the possibility of investigating the present through it. By merging music examples and philosophy this short lecture uses the sample like a sample: it acknowledges its history, but extracts it from this perspective, to situate it in an unknown territory from where a new song might emerge.
- Daniel Blanga Gubbay is a Brussels-based researcher and curator. He graduated at the Architecture University in Venice with Giorgio Agamben and got a PhD in Cultural Studies between the universities of Palermo,Valencia and FUBerlin. He researches in Political Philosophy of the Arts, lectures regularly in Beirut, and teaches at the Royal Art Academy in Brussels, where he manages the Arts and Choreography department. He works as programmer for the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels, and is the initiator of Aleppo, a platform for open and free public programs in performance and discursive practices.
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