Sound collage is the production of songs, musical compositions, or recordings using portions, or samples, of previously made recordings. Like its visual cousin, the collage work may have a completely different effect than that of the component parts, even if the original parts are completely recognizable. A song is a relatively short musical composition for the human voice (commonly accompanied by other musical instruments), which features words (lyrics). ... Musical composition is: an original piece of music the structure of a musical piece the process of creating a new piece of music // A musical composition A piece of music exists in the form of a written composition in musical notation or as a single acoustic event (a live performance... Historical records of events have been made for thousands of years in one form or another. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... Collage (From the French: , to stick) is regarded as a work of visual arts made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. ...

Sound collage first became a possibility with the widespread use of magnetic tape in the early 1960s. Recording engineers soon discovered that tape could be cut with a razorblade and spliced back together in a different order, and even from different sources. It wasn't long before artists began to explore the new possibilities. Iannis Xenakis is the first well-known composer to have worked with sound collage; other early artists who experimented with it include John Cage, Brion Gysin, and William S. Burroughs. The most famous examples in popular music are to be found in the work of The Beatles: George Martin cut up and randomly reassembled a recording of a carousel in "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite" on the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band LP, and John Lennon included a long pastiche of sound effects and crowd noises on The Beatles titled "Revolution 9". Compact audio cassette Magnetic tape is a non-volatile storage medium consisting of a magnetic coating on a thin plastic strip. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ... Iannis Xenakis Iannis Xenakis (Ιάννης Ξενάκης) (May 29, 1922 Brăila – February 4, 2001 Paris) was a Greek composer and architect who spent much of his life in Paris. ... John Cage For the character of John Cage from the TV show Ally McBeal see: John Cage (Character) John Milton Cage (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American experimental music composer, writer and visual artist. ... Brion Gysin (January 19, 1916 - July 13, 1986) was a writer and painter. ... William Seward Burroughs II (1914 – August 2, 1997), more commonly known as William S. Burroughs, was an American novelist, essayist, social critic, painter and spoken word performer. ... Popular music is music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and are disseminated by one or more of the mass media. ... The Beatles were a highly influential English rock band from Liverpool. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A carousel in a summer festival in London, with traditional animal mounts, barley twist poles and fairy lights. ... Being for the Benefit of Mr. ... John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980), (born John Winston Lennon, known as John Ono Lennon) was an iconic English 20th century rock and roll songwriter and singer, best known as the founding member of The Beatles. ... The Beatles is the ninth official album by The Beatles, a double album released in 1968. ... Revolution 9 is an experimental recording which appeared on The Beatles 1968 self-titled LP release (known as the White Album). ...

The cultural awareness of sound collage was greatly increased in the 1980s and early 1990s due largely to two lawsuits: the first by the Canadian Recording Association against John Oswald for his seminal collage work Plunderphonics and the second by Island Records against the band Negativland for their album U2 (ironically, the latter had nothing to do with sampling and was provoked by Negativland's misleading cover art). The popularity of two new musical genres that included elements of sound collage—rap and house music—over the same period also helped to popularize it. The 1980s refers to the years of 1980 to 1989. ... Germans dancing on the Berlin Wall in late 1989, the symbol of the cold war divide falls down as the world unites in the 1990s. ... John Oswald (born May 30, 1953 in Kitchener, Ontario) is a Canadian composer, saxophonist, photographer, and dancer. ... Plunderphonics is a term coined by John Oswald in 1985 in an essay entitled Plunderphonics, or Audio Piracy as a Compositional Prerogative. ... Island Records is an American record label, owned by Universal Music Group and is operated through The Island Def Jam Music Group. ... Negativland is an experimental music and sound collage band which originated in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1970s. ... Hip hop music is a style of music which came into existence in the United States during the mid-1970s, and became a large part of modern pop culture during the 1980s. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ...

Sound collage artists

• The Avalanches
• Frank Zappa
• Luciano Berio
• Crass
• The Bran Flakes
• Cassetteboy
• Daniel Steven Crafts
• DJ Shadow
• Emergency Broadcast Network
• end.
• Escape Mechanism
• Evolution Control Committee
• Joe Frawley
• Fuz Fon
• Girl Talk
• Steev Hise
• Kid 606
• Negativland
• Neutral Milk Hotel (Jeff Mangum)
• norelpref
• The Olivia Tremor Control
• When
• This Is Where the Fish Lives
• Bob Ostertag
• John Oswald
• People Like Us
• Nocturnal Emissions
• Ed Special
• Dixie Blood Mustache
• Stock, Hausen & Walkman
• The Tape-beatles
• Wayne Butane
• Wobbly
• Iannis Xenakis
• TWISTOR
• Holger Czukay

The Avalanches are an electronic music collective from Melbourne, Australia. ... Frank Vincent Zappa[1] (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, guitarist, singer, film director, and satirist. ... Luciano Berio (October 24, 1925 – May 27, 2003) was an Italian composer. ... For information about the anarchist writer see Chris Crass Crass was an influential English anarchist punk rock band. ... The Bran Flakes are a band from Seattle, Washington who specialise in creating music from pre-existing sources. ... Cassetteboy are two musicians from the UK - Mark Cassette and Steve Boy. ... Daniel Steven Crafts (born September 22, 1949, in Detroit, Michigan) is an American composer. ... Josh Davis, a. ... Emergency Broadcast Network is the name of a multimedia performance group that took its name from the Emergency Broadcast System. ... Escape Mechanism is the title of a sound collage project instigated by Minneapolis based artist Jonathan Nelson. ... An experimental music band from Columbus, Ohio founded by Mark Gunderson in the 1980s, the Evolution Control Committee (ECC) typically uses uncleared and illegal samples from various sources as a form of protest against copyright law. ... Girl Talk is the stage name of electronic music producer Gregg Gillis. ... Kid606 is the stage name of Miguel Trost Depedro, an electronic musician who was born 1979 July 27 in Caracas, Venezuela, raised in San Diego and later moved to San Francisco. ... Negativland is an experimental music and sound collage band which originated in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1970s. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Jefferson Nigh Mangum, or Jeff Mangum is the founder and driving force behind what was the band Neutral Milk Hotel and one of the cofounders of the Elephant Six Collective. ... The Olivia Tremor Control was an Athens, Georgia indie rock band in the mid- to late 1990s and, along with The Apples in Stereo and Neutral Milk Hotel, was one of the three original Elephant Six projects. ... Wiktionary has related dictionary definitions, such as: when Multiple topics exist with the title When, including the following: When, the concept of time. ... Bob Ostertag (b. ... John Oswald (born May 30, 1953 in Kitchener, Ontario) is a Canadian composer, saxophonist, photographer, and dancer. ... People Like Us (Vicki Bennett) creates audio-visual collage using sampling and found footage. ... Nocturnal Emissions is sound art project that has released numerous records and CDs in music styles ranging from electro-acoustic, musique concrete, hybridised beats, sound collage, post-industrial music and noise music. ... The Tape-beatles (aka Public Works) are a multi-media group from Iowa City that formed in December 1986. ... Iannis Xenakis Iannis Xenakis (Ιάννης Ξενάκης) (May 29, 1922 Brăila – February 4, 2001 Paris) was a Greek composer and architect who spent much of his life in Paris. ...

See also

• Some Assembly Required
• Musical montage