Matthew Blackwell spoke with Oswald over the phone on Octoto discuss his education under R. More recently, Oswald has been focusing on his Rascali Klepitoire project, for which he mines the classical repertoire from Beethoven to Varèse to compose new works. He is most well-known for creating “plunderphonics,” a genre that recontextualizes recognizable samples, or “sonic quotes,” influencing artists from Negativland to Girl Talk. Burroughs cut up and re-arranged, and Mystery Tapes (1980- ), which consists of unattributed music compiled to cassette. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, he experimented with sampling and alternative modes of music distribution via projects like Burrows (1974-75), which features audio of William S. John Oswald is a musician, composer, and media artist based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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