[spectre] Transcript of VARIATIONS #1, by Jon Leidecker, episode #1 of the series on appropiative collage

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*Transcript of VARIATIONS #1, by Jon Leidecker* ☞ http://bit.ly/ggLzop

Do not miss this amazing journey into the history of appropiative collage!

*VARIATIONS #1. Transition*
*Summary: *
The first episode of this overview of appropriative collage in music covers
the years 1909 through 1961, beginning with Charles Ives, who composed in a
cut and paste style with sheet music in a way that anticipated what later
composers would do with multi-track tapes and mixers. We skip through
decades to arrive at 'Twisting The Dials', the Happiness Boys' 1928 tribute
to late night radio surfing, before moving to John Cage's proto-sampling
pieces for radio and tape, 'Credo In US' and the 'Imaginary Landscapes'. We
witness the million-selling cut-in records of Buchanan and Goodman and the
resulting lawsuits, Richard Maxfield's tape cut-ups of a sermonizing
preacher, and conclude with James Tenney's dedicated dissection of a single
recording of Elvis: 'Collage No. 1', the first remix.

The concept of an original work of music, attributible to and owned by a
single author is a fairly recent development. Music was passed on through
generations as an oral culture, communicated through sound itself across
generations, even for centuries after the invention of written music. Only
by the fourteenth century had it become standard practice for a composer to
sign his name to a piece of music, slowly reenforcing the concept of the
author as individual creator.

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MP3: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/variations/01_Variations.mp3

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