The “Amen Break” is popularly sampled in Drum and Bass music. In this exercise I sampled the break (from the original song “Amen Brother” by The Winstons), divided the sample into 16 slices of equal length, and randomly assigned slices to every 16th note in one measure of music at the original tempo of the song. The result is a new loop, musical in nature, comprised of randomly distributed temporal elements of the original break.
I then resampled the result of this exercise and executed the same steps again, dividing the sample into slices of equal length, randomly distributing the slices among evenly spaced musical time divisions, resampling the result, and so on, and so forth.
I stopped at iteration 5 because … the process was time consuming. At any rate, without human intervention at each step, the progressive results tended towards being more repetitive and less musically satisfying. A composite .WAV file detailing the evolution of the “chopped” break is linked: