For this assignment, we were instructed to create an instrumental using only one sample. Therefore, all of the sounds from this piece were taken from a single clip from the movie "Friday After Next".  When I first watched this movie, I was awestruck by the soul-style cover of "Silent Night" that plays at the beginning of the film. This is why I decided to sample this clip in the first place, only later deciding to utilize the audio clips of dialogue and other sound effects from the scene. The second section of this piece utilizes fast-paced percussion that was taken from the chase sequence directly after the "Silent Night" section ends in the movie. I then decided to layer warped audio of chords and vocal humming from the "Silent Night" section over this percussion to complete my outro. At the end, I added audio of dialogue from the movie to create a humorous angle to the song. The scene from the movie that I sampled features a man dressed up as Santa Claus robbing various houses in the main character's neighborhood, which is why I called the piece "bad santa".

Assignment 3 - bad santa

Andre Flores