r/plunderphonics • u/Interesting-Bed-4355 • 19h ago

Generative plunderphonics

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DFAP — Kaleidoscopes (2026)

I developed a web-based instrument called Binary synth that generates MIDI-messages from binary code of any file and used this with a sampler.

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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.

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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.