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2004
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Recycling Music, Answering Back: Toward an Oral Tradition of Electronic Music

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Recycling Music, Answering Back: Toward an Oral Tradition of Electronic Music
This essay outlines a framework for understanding new musical compositions and performances that utilize pre-existing sound recordings. In attempting to articulate why musicians are increasingly using sound recordings in their creative work, the author calls for and shows examples of new performance tools that enable the dynamic use of pre-recorded music. Keywords Call and response, turntablism, DJ tools, musical borrowing, electronically-mediated sound, oral culture
Gideon D'Arcangelo
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Type Conference
Year 2004
Where NIME
Authors Gideon D'Arcangelo
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