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plunderphonics

noun

Etymology

Coined by Canadian composer John Oswald in 1985, as plunder + -phonics, in the essay Plunderphonics, or Audio Piracy as a Compositional Prerogative.

  1. derived from plunderen
  2. borrowed from plündern — “to loot”
  3. formed as plunderphonics — “plunder + -phonics”

Definitions

  1. 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for plunderphonics. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA