/r/plunderphonics
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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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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I adore remixing and putting spins on plunderphonic music!
17:39 UTC
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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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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Remix of "It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"
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jade fair - i dont know you but i miss you and love you very much
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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
12:13 UTC
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
19:55 UTC
Disemvowelment
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“shoot the works” - pet_maquette_
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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!
03:19 UTC
live plunderphonics at a highschool?
23:43 UTC
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.
09:26 UTC
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
02:00 UTC
My Core - Manchester Transit System
I used a couple samples
03:59 UTC
The Regurgitated Earth and Self
20:43 UTC
WHEEZEMΛCHINE : Wallpaper Music
23:06 UTC
My latest album!
02:18 UTC
God Knows Why
19:00 UTC
Torso 4 | VILLSVIN [Hardvapour]
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Necrofestinov
00:43 UTC
NEW MUSIC! VAPORWAVE / BARBER BEATS
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but i L_U_V them…
04:58 UTC
Whats the difference between plunderphonics and
Other types of primarily sample-based music? When does something become plunderphonics rather than say, a hip hop instrumental made entirely of samples by an artist like J-dilla
20:07 UTC
New release w/ samples from, Aaliyah, Anita Baker, Ariana Grande & Demi Lovato
17:43 UTC
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