/r/plunderphonics

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Plunderphonics is a term coined by composer John Oswald in 1985 in his essay Plunderphonics, or Audio Piracy as a Compositional Prerogative. It has since been applied to any music made by taking one or more existing audio recordings and altering them in some way to make a new composition. Plunderphonics can be considered a form of sound collage.

Plunderphonics is a term coined by composer John Oswald in 1985 in his essay Plunderphonics, or Audio Piracy as a Compositional Prerogative. It has since been applied to any music made by taking one or more existing audio recordings and altering them in some way to make a new composition. Plunderphonics can be considered a form of sound collage.

The process of sampling other sources is found in various genres (notably hip-hop and especially turntablism), but in plunderphonic works the sampled material is often the only sound used.

Though mash-ups are technically plunderphonic, please refrain from posting them here and do so on /r/mashups.

Ideally, we want posts here to feature extensive sample manipulation.

/r/plunderphonics

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live plunderphonics orl fl

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2024/11/24
17:19 UTC

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Ho Chi Minh - kh​ô​ng có gì b​ắ​t ngu​ồ​n từ hư vô

Found sound footage of a punk band recorded with a cellphone

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2024/11/23
19:32 UTC

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Cinema Hotdogs - Snuffle Tapes Vol 1

I got fed up making "serious" music so decided to make a "Slopwave" album, using various recording from VHS tapes and weird parts of YouTube. Hope you enjoy.

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2024/11/22
11:52 UTC

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NEW ALBUM! First ever collaborative effort with POLUNDRA. Sub Tuo Imperio. What do you think? [Album Art By Polundra]

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2024/11/20
01:22 UTC

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guitar plunderphonics at nite

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2024/11/17
17:29 UTC

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Beck, Ween, Ramleh - the product of a loser's sound (Loser reimagined)

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2024/11/16
12:38 UTC

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Released part 1 of my B Sides double album. Lots of noises, lots of exploring. Lots of samples

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2024/11/07
02:42 UTC

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new plunderphonica single

this might be one of my most genreless yet. it features, i think, a mixture of vaporwave, ambient, synth pop, and downtempo elements. i wrote this about the quiet suffering and uncertainty of loss, whether it pertains to the traumatic events that i’ve bore witness to, or to the many meaningful relationships garnered and lost in my life. bit depressing. but it’s art. i hope u guys enjoy!

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2024/11/06
01:03 UTC

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Anthony Menzia - Madonna

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2024/10/31
21:32 UTC

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My Goofy 90s/Y2K plunderphonics...I make them for fun but also to learn the art because I used to really ignore sampling!

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2024/10/28
22:30 UTC

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I adore remixing and putting spins on plunderphonic music!

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2024/10/22
17:39 UTC

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Full Mixtape

I've been working on this over the last few months and what started out as mostly goofing around turned out to be something I might be a little good at? I made it using Power director which was pretty limiting but I'm honestly happy with what I was able to do and it was really fun to work with samples that are all representative of my taste in music.

Sampled artists and media include Lorde, Frank Ocean, Van Dyke Parks, SpongeBob, They Might Be Giants, Notorious BIG, Star Wars, Chappell Roan, Daft Punk, Dropout's Game Changer, Feivel is Glauque, Fei Yu-ching, DC Talk, Camilo Sesto, Stephen Soundheim, and many many more.

I'd love to hear your thoughts!

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2024/10/18
16:00 UTC

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New Release

https://apricotstreet.bandcamp.com/album/saturday

i just released this lil mini ep, fits into the vaporwave and signal wave genres a bit, id love for anyone to check it out and leave their thoughts! thank you

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2024/10/12
18:51 UTC

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Remix of "It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"

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2024/10/12
06:01 UTC

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jade fair - i dont know you but i miss you and love you very much

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2024/10/11
20:12 UTC

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My first LP "Sweet Roots & Other Dishes" is out! It's highly inspired by the works of The Avalanches, early Kanye West and similar artists. I think you guys will enjoy it :) It would mean a lot to me if you could check it out and leave your opinion on it, i love to hear the feedback :D

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2024/10/10
12:13 UTC

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Jules Watts - sour papaya

New music from my upcoming vaporhop project titled "Unreleased".

I did a song with Devon Hendryx aka JPEGMAFIA too btw on my last project

Thanks for listening

https://on.soundcloud.com/P7s21aLFKvmzjuvs6

-Jules Watts

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2024/10/09
19:55 UTC

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Disemvowelment

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2024/10/08
18:14 UTC

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“shoot the works” - pet_maquette_

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2024/10/07
01:30 UTC

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Second album released! U L T R A S O N H O - Estados Alterados de Nostalgia (Brazilian Plunderphonics)

Hey guys. I have a Plunderphonics project focused especially on Brazilian music (and other content), I believe my work is between Plunder and Signalwave. I'd love you to have a listen and give your opinion. Naturally, my influences and samples are not solely Brazilian (see the first song on this new album, which is based on and sampled from SilentHill in parts). I've just released it on Bandcamp (the first one already has some clips on youtube), it's a work of pure love and fun, unfortunately I couldn't upload it to streaming platforms for obvious reasons, and if anyone even has a suggestion for a free distributor that I can use to put it on streams, I'd appreciate it!

I'd be happy to hear from anyone!

U L T R A S O N H O - Estados Alterados de Nostalgia

https://preview.redd.it/gkrv5e5vlgsd1.png?width=1772&format=png&auto=webp&s=78f5a5e224fb9410cd64e31f3f3e47b07e04f3c8

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2024/10/03
03:19 UTC

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live plunderphonics at a highschool?

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2024/09/28
23:43 UTC

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90's New Age mixtape, including Enya, Yanni, Tangerine Dream, Sailor Moon

NU・AGE・アンドロメダ | mommy jupiter

I'm very inspired by death's dynamic shroud, and this is the first mixtape I've made, I spent 6 months working on it and i love it dearly.

it is a story about an ages old space expedition and whether or not they ever make it to their destination.

https://mommyjupiter.bandcamp.com/album/nu-age

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2024/09/28
09:26 UTC

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Sonic Complexity in making Plunderphonics

Hey everyone.

I'm Jules and I was just curious if anyone had any information or input in making more complex sounding Plunderphonics music & sampling based music. I'm not a complete beginner and have been making music for some time now but was looking for some pointers by someone at a more developed or advanced level. I use an sp 404 mk II + fl studio 11.

Some of my influences include madlib, nujabes, j dilla, and early devon hendryx (I have a track with him on my bandcamp page). But I'm actually aiming towards something of the likes of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGHVE7BTW-o&list=LL&index=2

with maybe 80s Japanese City Pop samples or 80s Gospel samples at my disposal. I think that New Deluxe Life (artist above) is manipulating commercials and was also considering doing that in my future projects.

If you want to hear what I have:

https://soundcloud.com/jules-watts

https://juleswatts.bandcamp.com/

If anyone could help or assist in anyway that would be greatly appreciated.

thanks,

Jules Watts

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2024/09/28
02:00 UTC

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My Core - Manchester Transit System

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2024/09/27
03:59 UTC

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The Regurgitated Earth and Self

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2024/09/22
20:43 UTC

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My latest album!

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2024/09/17
02:18 UTC

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