[spectre] VARIATIONS #6. The Library, a podcast series by Jon Leidecker on the history of appropiative collage

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*"VARIATIONS #6. The Library", a podcast series by Jon Leidecker on the
history of appropiative collage*

Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial?id_capsula=810

In the sixth episode of this series of podcasts, we encounter the
establishment of sound libraries, collections explicitly curated for further
use: sound objects presented as authorless, unfinished ingredients. Though
some libraries contain newly commissioned generic sounds, specifically
designed for maximum flexibility, the most widely used sounds are often
sourced from commercial recordings, freed from their original context to
propagate across dozens to hundreds of songs. From presets for digital
samplers to data CD ROMs to hip-hop battle records, sounds increasingly
detach from their sources, used less as references to any original moment,
and more as objects in a continuous public domain.

 As hip-hop undergoes a conservative retrenchment in the wake of the early
90's sampling lawsuits, a widening variety of composers and groups expand
the practice of appropriative audio collage as a formal discipline. The
aesthetic of the sound libraries gives rise to recombinant genres like drum
and bass, the use of sampling as romanticized representation leads to the
first quadruple platinum World Music collage, and we encounter a novelty
single that quietly heralds a musical form that would soon become known as
the Mash-up.

Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial?id_capsula=810
MP3: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/variations/06_Variations.mp3
Related info: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20110304/06Variations_eng_PDF.pdf


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