[microsound-announce] New podcast: VARIATIONS #7. The composer, by Jon Leidecker

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*New podcast: VARIATIONS #7. The composer, by Jon Leidecker*

Link: http://bit.ly/MGcw1s
MP3: http://bit.ly/LPTaEi
Playlist+related info: http://bit.ly/Lhp6SQ

Led by Jon Leidecker, VARIATIONS reconstructs the history of sound
appropriationism by looking at examples from 20th century composition,
popular art and commercial media, and the convergence of all these trends
today.

*Summary*

If sampling had seemed an inherently revolutionary practice in the eighties
that called into question the definition and the authority of the composer,
the proliferation of artists in the decade that followed reasserted that
authority. Mainstream audiences finally recognized appropriation as a
legitimate form of creativity once artists became comfortable practicing it
as a form of self-expression.

In the nineties, sampling technology reached a level of sophistication and
control that allowed musicians to truly assert themselves over their
materials. While some collagists innovated by conifdently stepping into the
traditional role of the romantic composer, presenting the resulting music
as an expression of self, others continued to explore the intrinsic
meanings suggested by the craft itself. In this episode we trace through
examples of the popular music that brought the term 'remix' into the
popular lexicon, hear the CD player joining the turntable as a live
performance instrument, and connect digital sampling to the history of
musical borrowing: written notation’s classical equivalent to the editing
techniques that modern composers use to transform existing music into new
compositions.

In episode #7 we trace through examples of the popular music that brought
the term 'remix' into the popular lexicon, hear the CD player joining the
turntable as a live performance instrument, and connect digital sampling to
the history of musical borrowing: written notation’s classical equivalent
to the editing techniques that modern composers use to transform existing
music into new compositions.

You can find the previous episodes here:
http://rwm.macba.cat/en/variations_tag/

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