DEMI Sampling(TM) To Be Featured In Video Art Soundtrack

Dec. 21, 2011 - PRLog -- Research and development engineer, Marshall Barnes (see  http://www.informalscience.org/member/show/8498 ), is following up his announcement concerning his invention of the P.TVsynth(TM) or Programable Television Synthesizer(TM), with the news that the first video art piece that he will create with it will be done with his 1980s era technology, DEMI sampling(TM) - which is still far ahead of its time some 25 years later. DEMI sampling(TM) is the process of accurately sampling a multi-sound source so that it can be used to create a musical composition. The accuracy is accomplished by following the formula and equations that a DEMI sample(TM) is comprised of. It was the discovery of the inherent physics of sound transformations, through the digital sampling process, that led Marshall to formalize this specific technique and call it DEMI(TM) or Digital Extract of Multiple Instruments. The formula is a proprietary trade secret kept by Marshall and the use of DEMI samples(TM), and the DEMI sampling(TM) process, has far reaching possibilities, not only in entertainment and music technology fields but in music education in schools as well, particularly in the upcoming field of STEAM (Science Technology Engineering Art Math). Marshall is uniquely positioned to take advantage of all that, not only because of his connections in the pop music and entertainment fields, but also due to his notoriety as a cutting edge, advanced concept science and technology R&D engineer and a leading professional promoting STEM in schools through his SuperScience for High School Physics program.

Because many times, DEMI samples(TM) contain sounds that are identical to those made by synthesizers, but aren’t created even by electronic means of any kind, Marshall announced a number of times in 1980s and early 90s that his music was completely “synthesizer free”, joking about using synthesizers only for surf boards or “tossing them in the swimming pool”, a reference to a CREEM magazine headline in the mid 70s that mentioned “skinny dipping with a synthesizer”. However, the powerful perception that Marshall had, to see the potential of DEMI sampling(TM) when he discovered it by experimenting with a simple Casio SK-1, is evident during the Entertainment Tonight appearance of Todd Rundgren in 1985. Rundgren, who had been a major influence for Marshall in the 70s, described how he sampled himself to create the instrument sounds for his album, Accapella, on an expensive sampling system that even had a computer screen to digitally modify samples. However, Marshall’s work in creating DEMI sampling(TM) a year later for his project, The Artlab, resulted in far superior results, especially for his song, “Pogo“, an experimental music piece akin to Rundgren’s “Tic Tic Tic It Wears Off” and “Flamingo”, from his 1973 A Wizard/A True Star album. Though performed on the small Casio SK-1, “Pogo” sounds like a lush, multitrack recording, with voices, strings, synthesizers and piano, but was performed with just one DEMI sample(TM), one time, on a single track – to which a drum computer was added. Just as advertised, despite how it sounds, there are no synthesizer sounds in it anywhere (see and hear these comparisons at his blog site at http://www.artreview.com/profiles/blogs/parallel-universe... .


Marshall used DEMI sampling(TM) extensively in the music that was featured in his last released music project, the psychoactive video album, Seeing the Breykiot in 1991, which was his first project to get national distribution. With Parallel Universes, the first video art piece that he will release that has been done with his P.TVsynth(TM), he will simultaneously be giving his DEMI sampling(TM) technique its first international debut in the Internet age, as the soundtrack will be performed with just a single DEMI sample(TM). This marks his serious emergence into the art/music/video scene since the early 90s, after test marketing his latest work between 2007 and 2010, in a series of gallery shows and boutique performances that received enthusiastic response. Marshall intends to begin aggressively introducing and marketing, his technologies and various inventions, on an international level in 2012, and promoting DEMI sampling(TM) as both a music production tool as well as a tool for teaching children new ways to compose their own music. In that regard, he will eventually produce educational materials for teachers, instructing them on how they can use DEMI sampling(TM) as a STEAM innovation in the classroom. He is already scheduled to use DEM sampling(TM) as a science tool in a live performance show in April 2012, at the largest science festival in the country, the USA Science and Engineering Festival http://www.usasciencefestival.org/2012festival/finale-exp... in Washington, DC.

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