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It's known as "plunderphonics," and it consists of stealing snippets of audio from a vast variety of sources and bending it to uses the original artists or speakers would hardly dare to imagine.
Archive 2007-08-01 Anne Johnson 2007
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It's known as "plunderphonics," and it consists of stealing snippets of audio from a vast variety of sources and bending it to uses the original artists or speakers would hardly dare to imagine.
Performance Review: Negativland Anne Johnson 2007
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John Oswald has been experimenting with a process he calls 'plunderphonics' for some years now.
The Annotated "Dark Star" Robert Hunter 2005
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Click below for links to the torrents and let the plunderphonics begin!
- Boing Boing 2005
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I came across the tapes from artist John Oswald of plunderphonics fame.
She Be She Strike 2005
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Otis Fodder and Mildred Pitt are returning with another plunderphonics album on Illegal Art (Negativland, Girl Talk, Steinski).
undomondo 2009
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"As I mentioned earlier, plunderphonics usually entails taking what seems to be normal music and making it strange.
The Annotated "Dark Star" Robert Hunter 2005
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Sometimes, despite the intently lackadaisical sound palette, the individual tracks rub up against each other in vaguely unsettling ways: slurry phone chatter goofiness leads into Elizabeth Fraser’s elfin glossolalia into Plaid’s blippy computer pop into a bit of Moebius-strip plunderphonics courtesy of the Tape Beatles.
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Faced with a restless crowd and the threat of a lukewarm shower of the £3.50 a pint variety, the man whose parents most probably didn't bless with the name Ergo could just look back at his decade-long recording career and pluck out the many sound collages he created for Radio 3 or Resonance, snippets of his installation work or one of his collaborations with fellow plunderphonics whizz People Like Us. He could throw in TV and radio themes or a crowd-pleasing cover version: maybe a cut from 2003's Ergo Phizmiz & his Orchestra
Drowned In Sound // Feed Abi Bliss 2010
kenspeckle commented on the word plunderphonics
Essentially, "remix culture," a-la the 1980s. I've tried to explain further here.
March 29, 2007
john commented on the word plunderphonics
"On the phone, Gillis resists accepting too much credit for his accomplishment. "I didn't pioneer this kind of thing," he says, pointing to decades-old work by Negativland and John Oswald, who coined the term "plunderphonics" to describe his brand of micromanaged audio collage."
- Seattle Weekly, "Appetite for Reconstruction:
The legimate virtuosity of Pittsburgh's mash-up maestro Girl Talk", January 24, 2007
November 21, 2007