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Material and Medium: An examination of sound recycling in Oval’s 94 diskont

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2019

Neil O Connor
Neil O Connor*
Affiliation:
Digital Media Arts Research Centre, Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Limerick, Ireland
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Email: neil.oconnor@ul.ie
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Abstract

Reproduction (playback) is responsible for the presentation of the full spectrum of sound character captured during the recording process. The control of this and the faithfulness to an original sound has informed modern sound aesthetics. Current modes of reproduction, such as streaming, see the listener more interested in an approximate presentation of sound, rather than a broad and more psychoacoustically pleasing one. In the sonic arts, the practice of sound recycling and its associated methodologies, reproduction is re-contextualised, involving material that is borrowed, reworked and often disconnected from its source. Such issues are considered in this article through the examination of sound recycling in 94 diskont (1995), an album produced by the German act Oval. By studying the use of material and medium in the work, an attempt is made to discuss approaches to sound recycling through conceptual frameworks proposed by Bregman, Deleuze, Guattari and Smalley to provide a forum towards the interpretation of sound recycling in wider sonic arts practices.

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Organised Sound , Volume 24 , Issue 2: Borrowing, Quotation, Sampling and Plundering , August 2019 , pp. 157 - 163
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© Cambridge University Press, 2019 

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