Month: January 2022

Plunderphonics is described as “a music genre in which tracks are constructed by sampling recognizable musical works”.

Who owns the work once it has been resampled and repurposed?

“A good composer does not imitate, he steals”

“Some of you, current and potential samplerists, are perhaps curious about the extent to which you can legally borrow from the ingredients of other people’s sonic manifestations. Is a musical property properly private, and if so, when and how does one trespass upon it? Like myself, you may covet something similar to a particular chord played and recorded singularly well by the strings of the estimable Eastman Rochester Orchestra on a long-deleted Mercury Living Presence LP of Charles Ives’ Symphony #3, itself rampant in unauthorized procurements. Or imagine how invigorating a few retrograde Pygmy (no slur on primitivism intended) chants would sound in the quasi-funk section of your emulator concerto. Or perhaps you would simply like to transfer an octave of hiccups from the stock sound library disk of a Mirage to the spring-loaded tape catapults of your Melotron.”

We dream for 6 years over the span of our life on average, your mind is more active during a dream than when your’e awake , we sleep to recover from the days stress on the body, repair muscle damage and get ready for the next day. your dreams only see familiar faces, the faces in your dreams are people you’ve already seen , you can’t read in your dreams, when you’re asleep your subconscious is taking a break, you can’t look in the mirror,

Where are you in the space of your piece? Where do you want your audience to be? Do you want them horizontal, vertical, do you want where they are to change over time? Where do you want your sound source options to come from? How do you experience sound in the space? Voice from vocals, instruments, objects, moving sculptures. Where are these sound placed during the piece, are they moving througought the piece? Is the audience sitting on the stage? Do you want to use music? Do you want to include a soundscape?