The Biography of the Sample: Notes on the Hidden Contexts of Acousmatic Art
Joe Milutis · Leonardo Music Journal · 2008
ABSTRACT Acousmatic sound art production has as its goal a transformation of recognizable recorded sound samples into new relations, effectively hiding the origin of the raw material so as to focus on an experience of pure sound. The author defines the “live” as the “life” from which these samples are pulled, and considers the ways in which the biography of the sample troubles acousmatic art.