Transcript of VARIATIONS #4, by Jon Leidecker ☞ <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20110623/04Variations_transcript.pdf" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20110623/04Variations_transcript.pdf</a><br><br><a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/variations_tag/" target="_blank">VARIATIONS</a>, led by <b>Jon Leidecker</b>
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. <br><br><b>VARIATIONS #4. The Explosion</b><br><br><b>Summary</b><br><br>The
late seventies saw the experimental tradition of collage continue in
the form of industrial music and the cassette underground. But it took
the sudden emergence of hip-hop culture for collage to make inroads
towards the form of popular music, as DJs in the Bronx developed the
mixer and the turntable into performative musical instruments for the
stage. At the same time, academic and commercial firms brought a new and
steadily more affordable device to the marketplace: a keyboard based,
computer controlled instrument that came to be known as the Digital
Sampler. Separate threads from different cultural backgrounds, traced as
they rise to converge.<br>
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