Cobble

Using what is already in front of you, you can always make something new. This is a big tenet of AutoPilot and is also how many Air King pieces start -- by culling the library for loops, drones, chopped up bits from the previous project, etc.

Say is not generated by AutoPilot (i.e. it's generated manually), but it is comprised of recycled and tweaked bits from various different projects:

- Electronic beats created for a doomed Swatch Avatar project Future Farmers was commissioned to do way before Avatars showed up in Second Life.

- Vinyl scratching from 2 sessions Adam (MBO) and I did with DJ Disk several years ago with the goal of creating a Scratch sample library. We had 2 good sessions and all the raw material sits on my hard drive today, mostly unedited...

- An optigan maraca beat sampled long ago for a forgotten reason.

- A severely chopped and reversed Wurlitzer electronic piano demo of Secret Life (which MBO used to do live).

- Various little sound effects done for some multimedia projects back in the late 90s when dot coms would commission (for good sums, btw) boutique outfits like Air King to create very short (remember, bandwidth was an issue back then) loops. The good old days...

- Some classical Webern and Satie samples lying around in my loops directory.

And it's a new piece, which can be chopped up again for the next one...