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unusual facts about sampling



Absolute 80s

The marketing plan for Absolute 80s started with targeted sampling at 80s events such as Madness, Pet Shop Boys and Depeche Mode at the O2 Arena, and Simple Minds at Wembley Arena.

Alex Steinweiss

He was interviewed for a chapter in Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture (The MIT Press, 2008) edited by Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky.

Alondra Nelson

Nelson recently contributed a chapter to Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture (The MIT Press, 2008) edited by Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky.

Anita Rani

Rani co-presented with Justin Rowlatt the two part documentary travelogue India on Four Wheels, a road trip around India sampling the changes and problems the growing car usage has brought to the country in the last two decades.

Anybody Seen My Baby?

It features wide-ranging inspirations, including sampling of hip-hop artist Biz Markie, making it one of the few songs by The Rolling Stones to include sampling (Bridges to Babylon is the only Rolling Stones album to include sampling).

Asaph Hall

In this article Hall reported the results of an experiment in random sampling that Hall had persuaded his friend, Captain O.C. Fox, to perform when Fox was recuperating from a wound received at the Second Battle of Bull Run.

Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs

Publishes the Early Bird, a daily representative, balanced and impartial sampling of articles, broadcast segments, and online reporting/commentary reflecting important developments about the Department.

Avondale, Chicago

Former mayor of Warsaw and current Member of the European Parliament Paweł Piskorski while sampling the wares at Kurowski's, one of the numerous Polish delicatessens in the area, declared that the sausage shop's kielbasa was better than any he'd had in his own home city.

Clonewheel organ

By the 1990s and 2000s digital signal processing and sampling technologies allowed for better imitation of the original Hammond sound, and a variety of electronic organs, emulator devices, and synthesizers provided an accurate reproduction of the Hammond tone, such as the Kurzweil K2600 and Clavia Nord Electro keyboard.

Conway–Maxwell–Poisson distribution

A full Bayesian estimation approach has been used with MCMC sampling implemented in WinBugs with non-informative priors for the regression parameters.

DAQ

Data acquisition, the sampling of the real world to generate data that can be manipulated by a computer

Dick Hebdige

In 2008 he contributed a chapter to Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture edited by Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky.

E-mu SP-12

E-mu SP-12 12 also known as the “sampling drum computer” was designed in 1985 and widely released in 1986 by E-mu Systems.

Eclectic Method

Eclectic Method appears as one of the featured artists on Copyright Criminals, a 2009 documentary film directed and produced by Benjamin Franzen and Kembrew McLeod examining the creative and the commercial value of sampling.

Free River Press

In 1999, Oxford University Press published a sampling from the first nine years of Free River Press books, An American Mosaic: Prose and Poetry by Everyday Folk.

Gizmo5

GSM — fixed bit rate, not loss tolerant, narrow band (8 kHz sampling rate)

Grand Upright Music, Ltd. v. Warner Bros. Records Inc.

As early as 1989, Dr. Dre's production was styled around fewer samples per track, studio instrumentation, and heavy sampling from artists – Parliament-Funkadelic most notably in Dre's case – who were amenable to having their music sampled by hip hop producers.

Handwriting movement analysis

While sampling rates of 20 Hz would theoretically suffice, up-sampling will be needed to properly visualize the Lissajous-like handwriting and drawing strokes.

Havas

SNC was a listed communications group controlled by Daniel Snyder, and their activities were mainly outsourced marketing services, such as Direct marketing, database marketing, proprietary product sampling, sponsored information display in prime locations, call centres, field sales.

Henry Krumb

As a Guggenheim engineer, he was the first to apply scientific methods to sampling bulk-tonnage orebodies at the enormous porphyry copper deposit at Bingham Canyon, Utah.

I Need a Haircut

The resulting case was Grand Upright Music, Ltd. v. Warner Bros. Records Inc., in which the court granted an injunction against the defendants to prevent further copyright infringement of the plaintiff's song by sampling and referred them for criminal prosecution.

Infrastructure bias

Procedural bias, related to infrastructure bias, is shown by a case of irregular genetic sampling of Bolivian wild potatoes.

Jonny L

Another album, 27 Hours A Day followed with the George W. Bush-sampling single "Let's Roll" in 2003.

Justin Rowlatt

In 2011 he co-presented, with fellow journalist Anita Rani, the two-part documentary travelogue India on Four Wheels, a road trip around India sampling the changes and problems the growing car usage has brought to the country in the last two decades (see Transport in India).

Kadima leadership election, 2008

(Note--Israeli primary polls can often be very unreliable due to poor sampling and turnout predictions. Most of the polls in the 2012 Kadima primary showed that Livni would beat Mofaz, yet Mofaz ended up winning in the end by a 62-38% margin, a whopping 24% difference. Likewise, Amir Peretz beat former Prime Minister Shimon Peres in the 2005 Labor leadership primary despite the fact that all or most of the polls predicted a solid Peres victory.)

Larz Anderson Auto Museum

A sampling of these events includes days devoted to American V8s, British cars, Cadillac LaSalles, Camaros and Firebirds, Corvettes, German cars, hot rods, Italian cars, Japanese motorcycles, Mercedes-Benz, Miatas, microcars & mincars, Packards and other extinct autos, Porsches and Studebakers.

Lee Hirsch

Hirsch also contributed a chapter to Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture (The MIT Press, 2008) edited by Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky).

Macrobrachium ohione

In May 2001, two specimens were found in the Ohio at Joppa, Illinois, the first ones in 50 years, indicating either that the species is returning to its former range, or that prior sampling methods were ineffective.

Michael Lawry

He is a member of numerous bands, notably The Headless Chickens (founder member) for whom he played the keyboards and experimented with sampling, as well as writer or co-writer of many of their songs.

Mining industry of the Central African Republic

Other companies exploring for diamond included Pangea Diamondfields Plc (Isle of Man), which planned to invest $3.2 million in a bulk sampling plant for its Dimbi (Basse-Kotto) project concession area, and Gem Diamonds Ltd. (UK), which held exploration and mining permits for the Mambéré river project near the city of Berberati.

Najim

Re-titled "Près de toi (Suddenly)", it is a multilingual song in French, English and Persian and contains a sampling of Algerian classic "Abdel Kader" with Arash featuring Najim and Swedish-Mexican star Rebecca Zadig

Now and Zen

In response to the Beastie Boys' unauthorized sampling of some Led Zeppelin songs on their 1986 album Licensed to Ill, Plant also used samples from Led Zeppelin songs ("Whole Lotta Love", "Dazed and Confused", "Black Dog", "Custard Pie", and "The Ocean") on "Tall Cool One", additionally singing words from "When the Levee Breaks".

Nyquist ISI criterion

We multiply such a h(t) by a sum of Dirac delta function (impulses) \delta (t) separated by intervals Ts This is equivalent of sampling the response as above but using a continuous time expression.

Ocean color

Harmful Algal Bloom Forecasting System: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Harmful Algal Bloom Forecasting System utilizes ocean colour data in conjunction with meteorological data and field sampling to forecast the development and movement of harmful algal blooms (commonly referred to as "red tides") in the Gulf of Mexico.

OK Cobra

The album quickly reached #1 on Chart's hip hop charts, and the singles "Child in Rhyme" (sampling Deep Purple's "Child in Time"), "Time Flies" and "Fall Dumbass" have garnered extensive airplay on CBC Radio 3, which named "Time Flies" one of the best songs of 2006.

Pittsburgh Penguins Confidential

A sampling of the stations that aired the show included WPXI in Pittsburgh, WYTV in Youngstown, Ohio, and WTOV in Steubenville, Ohio.

Pizzicato Five

Inspired by the advent of sampling (De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising is said to have been a major influence), the group put together a sound which would help start the burgeoning Shibuya-kei scene.

Proportionator

Gardi, J.E., J.R. Nyengard, H.J.G. Gundersen, Automatic sampling for unbiased and efficient stereological estimation using the proportionator in biological studies, Journal of Microscopy, 2008, Vol.

Rannveig Anna Guicharnaud

National sampling of Icelandic soils, soil profile descriptions, adaption of standard soil chemical analyses to suit Icelandic Andosols and data analyses for Ýmir, a national dataset for Icelandic soils.

Sauce Money

Sauce Money released a 2008 single entitled "Listen 2 Me", sampling the Oompa-Loompas from the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.

Sexplosion!

He went on to say the album mostly concerned itself with "who is doing whom and whether or not there will be enough spangles, muscle boys, and cocktails available." He noted with approval its lounge music vibe in places, as well as its sampling of theme songs from James Bond movies including Thunderball.

Snow Leopard Conservancy

This is done using remote camera traps, fecal DNA sampling and GPS-satellite collars to study movements and corridor analysis to find areas to target for conservation efforts.

Social Psychology Network

Affiliated partner sites include the Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP.org); the Society for Personality and Social Psychology; and Research Randomizer (Randomizer.org, a web-based tool for random sampling and random assignment).

Sound chip

Atari Jerry, in addition to FM and WS capabilities, Jerry supported PCM sampling.

Square root biased sampling

Square root biased sampling is a sampling method proposed by William H. Press, a computer scientist and computational biologist, for use in airport screenings.

Survey of Consumer Finances

Individuals listed by Forbes magazine as being among the Forbes 400 (the wealthiest 400 people in the U.S.) are excluded from sampling.

The Jupiter Theft

Using a Moog synthesizer, via an early example of sampling in fiction, one of the crew who possesses perfect pitch learns the Cygnan musical language, and is educated by Cygnan didactic films.

Thomas Messinger Drown

As consulting chemist to the Massachusetts State Board of Health, he was in charge of the famous Lawrence Experiment Station laboratory conducting the water sampling, testing, and analysis.

TKZee

In December 1997 the group released Palafala, sampling Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi.

Young American Primitive

The voice sampling on the track "Over and Out" beginning with "Did you know that 'if' is the middle word in life..." is of Dennis Hopper from the film Apocalypse Now during the scene when the boat finally arrives at COL Walter E. Kurtz's outpost and is met by Hopper's character.


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