Tape+Loop

i am sitting in a room

Alvin Lucier, 1969

• Alvin Lucier on UBU web - I am Sitting in a room

• Marc Chia (Onemannation/Tara Transitory): Bufferrrbreakkdownnn Arkestra
• Lieven Van Speybroeck: Word in Process

tactical audio

• William Burroughs / Bryon Gysin Burroughs Audio on UBU Web

... when you cut into the present the future leaks out

• • Breakthrough in Grey Room
  • Origin and Theory of the Cut-Up
  • Working with the Popular Forces

• Example: BBC News Cut-up (Javascript)

• Qaeda Quality Question Quickly Quickly Quiet
• Evolution Control Committee - Rocked by rape

(re) ordering the archive

• Erkki Kurenniemi

Pluderphonics, or Audio Piracy as a Compositional Prerogative], John Oswald, 1985

• Plunderphonics
  • Example: A case of death

An active listener might speed up a piece of music in order to perceive more clearly its macrostructure, or slow it down to hear articulation and detail more precisely. Portions of pieces are juxtaposed for comparison or played simultaneously, tracing "the motifs of the Indian raga Darbar over Senegalese drumming recording in Paris and a background mosaic of frozen moments from an exotic Hollywood orchestration of the 1950's (a sonic texture like a "Mona Lisa" which in close-up, reveals itself to be made up of tiny reproductions of the Taj Mahal."

people like us

• People Like Us (Vicki Bennett) UBU Web
  • The Bits Inbetween