<b>The transcript of VARIATIONS #7. The Composer, curated by Jon Leidecker, is now available online</b><br><br>Link: <a href="http://bit.ly/MW97ei" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/MW97ei</a><br>PDF: <a href="http://bit.ly/OnbxnP" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/OnbxnP</a><br>
You can also listen to the final episode here: <a href="http://bit.ly/LAWPst" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LAWPst</a><br><br>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.<br><br>You can find the complete VARIATIONS podcast series: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/variations_tag/" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/variations_tag/</a><br><br>Follow us at <a href="http://twitter.com/Radio_Web_MACBA" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/Radio_Web_MACBA</a>