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

Gideon D'Arcangelo

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

This essay outlines a framework for understanding newmusical compositions and performances that utilizepre-existing sound recordings. In attempting toarticulate why musicians are increasingly using soundrecordings in their creative work, the author calls fornew performance tools that enable the dynamic use ofpre-recorded music.

Citation:

Gideon D'Arcangelo. 2004. Recycling Music, Answering Back: Toward an Oral Tradition of Electronic Music. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1176591

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{DArcangelo2004,
 abstract = {This essay outlines a framework for understanding newmusical compositions and performances that utilizepre-existing sound recordings. In attempting toarticulate why musicians are increasingly using soundrecordings in their creative work, the author calls fornew performance tools that enable the dynamic use ofpre-recorded music. },
 address = {Hamamatsu, Japan},
 author = {D'Arcangelo, Gideon},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1176591},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Call and response, turntablism, DJ tools, oral culture},
 pages = {55--58},
 title = {Recycling Music, Answering Back: Toward an Oral Tradition of Electronic Music},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2004/nime2004_055.pdf},
 year = {2004}
}