plunderphonics
English
Etymology
Coined by Canadian composer John Oswald in 1985 as a compound of plunder + phonics in the essay Plunderphonics, or Audio Piracy as a Compositional Prerogative.[1]
Noun
plunderphonics (uncountable)
- A form of musical composition based on the unauthorized use of existing audio recordings.
- 2007, Allan F. Moore, Critical Essays in Popular Musicology, Routledge
- Such a practice (which is autosonic, by the way) could be viewed as a “mega-editing” process; but I would like to draw a distinction between plunderphonics and edited versions, because the former clearly aim to denature the hypotext.
- 2007, Allan F. Moore, Critical Essays in Popular Musicology, Routledge
References
- John Oswald (March 2015), “Plunderphonics, or Audio Piracy as a Compositional Prerogative”, in eContact!, volume 16.4, published 1985
Further reading
plunderphonics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia