Re: [microsound] about samples

[Ant Weiss <antonv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have to agree - the postmodernist thought  has
totally destroyed the idea of originality - we all know that it's enough to
draw a moustache on
Mona Lisa, to call her your own.
But hten, if the notion that we're now entering
a new (call it post-digital, post-post-modern, whatever) phase - should we
rethink the remix
aesthetics once again ?


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From: "scissors for sparrow" <transmit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "microsound" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: [microsound] about samples


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> >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?
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> have you heard of plunderphonics?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> enough natter from me.
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