Question
This genre is extensively defined in the liner notes to the Grateful Dead album Grayfolded, which includes remixes of their song “Dark Star.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this musical genre defined as “Audio Piracy as a Compositional Prerogative” in a John Oswald essay. Works in this genre, like sound collages, are made by piecing together bits from recognizable existing music.
ANSWER: plunderphonics
[10m] Plunderphonics artists create works using this technique, which is frequently used in hip-hop for drum breaks. DJ Shadow’s album Endtroducing….. was made almost entirely through this technique.
ANSWER: sampling [or chopping samples]
[10e] Plunderphonics’ exclusive use of samples is contrasted with a style of hip-hop production named for these devices, which DJs move back and forth to create a “scratching” effect.
ANSWER: turntables [or record players or phonographs or gramophones; accept turntablism; prompt on discs, vinyl records, or vinyls by asking “on what devices are those used?”]
<CH, Auditory Fine Arts>
Summary
| 2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | Premiere | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University | Premiere | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges | Premiere | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 0% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Indiana | Premiere | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 80% | 20% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at RIT | Premiere | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 50% | 50% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL | Premiere | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| Cornell MATLAB | Cornell R | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Syracuse+Rochester | RIT | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |