plunderphonics
nounEtymology Coined by Canadian composer John Oswald in 1985, as plunder + -phonics, in the essay Plunderphonics, or Audio Piracy as a Compositional Prerogative.
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A form of musical composition based on the unauthorized use of existing audio recordings.
- 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: