You’ll need an audio clip. Any audio clip will do, but what works best will be between 2 - 8 bars long and fairly dynamic. If you use a clip that is too long, the samples won't get cut small enough to be functional, and if it's too homogenous you won't end up spawning the accidents and variety that lead to the best discoveries. Don't worry too much over this - just about any piece of audio will lead to good results - so select something arbitrarily if need be and place it in Live's arrangement view.

So the goal here is to chop this up pretty randomly, which isn't as easy as you'd think given almost all automated slicing systems (and indeed our own minds) are set up to think in pretty strictly structured musical terms. We're looking to break those rules. To do this we’re going to use a sneaky little glitch with split clip that - full disclosure - is probably not an intended function of Live. Click and hold the mouse somewhere on the clip you're using, hold the split clip shortcut [cmd + e] and (not letting go of the mouse click or keyboard shortcut) drag your cursor across the clip.