Cutting Up the Cut-Up - BBC Sounds

Writer Ken Hollings examines how an artistic device called the 'cut-up' has been employed by artists and satirists to create new meanings from pre-existing recorded words. Click link above to listen.


"musique concrete,"

The first piece of "musique concrete," composed by Pierre Schaeffer in 1948 out of sounds produced by trains.

case study: pierre schaeffer
STEVE REICH - TAPE PIECES

Other Links

Cut-Ups, Collages and Collisions: Why the Art of Juxtaposition Matters More Than Ever (Sound of Life)
What is Sound Collage? The Evolution of Layered Audio in Music