for the musician on the list: do you try to use only "self-made"
sounds or do you steal them? and what do you steal?
have you heard of plunderphonics?
it's also interesting to think of this argument in marxian terms -- how
'ownership' can be attached to an independent object, and how far removed
one can be from one's own sound; conversely, how individuals can claim
cultural artifacts as their own shared pool of resources.
i used to be dogmatically opposed to taking sound from any source not
(originally) created by myself with my own hands. then it became clear
that there are no such clear boundaries as to 'mine' or 'yours', and it was
more important how you approached an intended outcome anyway.