Ràdio Web MACBA presents Variations #5 - The Discipline

Jon Leidecker presents an introduction to the history of sound appropriationism in 20th century composition, popular art and mainstream media, and the convergence of these trends in the present day.

The fifth episode of VARIATIONS explains how as art and industrial practitioners formally map out the discipline, hip-hop's discovery of digital sampling technology in the mid-80's provided a reintroduction to its original roots in block party DJ collage. The international success of the new genre then prompts a legal backlash against the art form, with a rash of lawsuits filed against both commercially successful pop artists like De La Soul, Biz Markie & 2 Live Crew and left-field provocateurs like the KLF, Negativland and John Oswald.

Transcript available here:
http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20110816/05Variationstranscripteng_PDF.pdf

Link to the complete series:
http://rwm.macba.cat/en/variations_tag

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(Originally broadcast Thursday 6pm, repeats Sunday 6am, Tuesday 6am and Wednesday 8am)