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John Oswald (born May 30, 1953 in Kitchener, Ontario) is a Canadian composer, saxophonist, media artist and dancer. His best known project is Plunderphonics , the practice of making new music out of previously existing recordings (see sound collage and musical montage ).
John Oswald is the name of: John Oswald (activist) (1760–1793), Scottish philosopher, writer, and revolutionary; John Oswald (bishop) (died 1780), Anglican bishop in Ireland; John Oswald (British Army officer) (1771–1840), British general; John Oswald (composer) (born 1953), Canadian composer associated with the Plunderphonics project
Plunderphonics 69/96 is a two-CD compilation album by John Oswald.The album compiles most of Oswald's infamous Plunderphonics recordings, including the 1989 Plunderphonic self-released giveway album that ran afoul of the Canadian Recording Industry (), and the Elektrax promotional EP that had been originally commissioned by Elektra Records.
Plunderphonics was used as the title of an EP release by John Oswald. Oswald's original use of the word was to indicate a piece that was created from samples of a single artist and no other material. Influenced by William S. Burroughs' cut-up technique, he began making plunderphonic recordings in the 1970s.
Grayfolded is a two-CD album produced by John Oswald featuring new edits and re-mixes of the Grateful Dead song "Dark Star".Oswald used a process he calls "plunderphonics" to edit fragments of over a hundred different performances of the song, recorded live between 1968 and 1993, to produce two new versions of the song each lasting about an hour.
John Oswald (c. 1760/1730 [1] – 14 September 1793) was a Scottish philosopher, writer, poet, social critic, vegetarian and revolutionary. Early life.
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John N. Oswalt is an American scholar and distinguished professor of Old Testament at Asbury Theological Seminary. He teaches in theology, Old Testament and ancient ...