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plunderphonics en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) 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. 2007, Allan F. Moore, Critical Essays in Popular Musicology, Routledge: