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Plunderphonics is a music genre in which tracks are constructed by sampling recognizable musical works. The term was coined by composer John Oswald in 1985 in his essay "Plunderphonics, or Audio Piracy as a Compositional Prerogative", [1] and eventually explicitly defined in the liner notes of his Grayfolded album.
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 ).
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.
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.
In 1985, John Oswald coined the term "plunderphonics" to describe an approach which framed sampling as a "self-conscious practice" which interrogated notions of originality, identity, and "the death of the author." [5]
Science has trumped a popular conspiracy theory that suggests Lee Harvey Oswald was framed for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.An old photo of Oswold shows him in a backyard in ...
John Oswald (composer) albums (3 P) Pages in category "Plunderphonics albums" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
Just seven weeks before the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the CIA intercepted a curious phone call to the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City. ... “My name is Oswald,” said the ...