The transcript of VARIATIONS #7. The Composer, curated by Jon Leidecker, is now available online

Link: http://bit.ly/MW97ei
PDF: http://bit.ly/OnbxnP
You can also listen to the final episode here: http://bit.ly/LAWPst

Curated by Jon Leidecker, VARIATIONS reconstructs the history of sound appropriationism by looking at examples from 20th century composition, popular art and commercial media, and the convergence of all these trends today. In the seventh episode of the series, we trace through examples of the popular music that brought the term 'remix' into the popular lexicon, hear the CD player joining the turntable as a live performance instrument, and connect digital sampling to the history of musical borrowing: written notation’s classical equivalent to the editing techniques that modern composers use to transform existing music into new compositions.

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