ARTS 207
The Sample
Fall 2013
Division I
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Class Details
“Cutting and pasting is the essence of what culture is all about… it’s about drawing from what’s around you, and subverting it and de-contextualizing it.” -DJ Shadow.’ This interdisciplinary course will provide a brief history of sample-based music, art and literature as well as hands-on practice in collecting and using samples in individual creative work. As a class we will work together to create a working definition of ‘the sample’ as well as a multimedia library of samples to be used in creative assignments. Topics of discussion will include sample-based music from the ‘Amen Break’ to the contemporary trends of mashups and plunderphonics, the literary cut-ups of Buroughs and Gysin, and the visual art of Duchamp’s ‘ready-mades’ to contemporary artists such as Tom Friedman and Ben Rubin. We will also touch on the lurid history of legal battles over sample ownership, fair use law, the public domain, and the creative commons movement.
The Class:
Format: seminar
Limit: 12
Expected: 12
Class#: 1954
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Limit: 12
Expected: 12
Class#: 1954
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation:
evaluation will be based on a short paper, active participation in the development of a shared body of samples to be used in creative assignments, and a final project employing elements of this sample library' in one's chosen medium
Prerequisites:
100-level class in creative arts or by permission of the instructor
Distributions:
Division I
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ARTS 207 - 01 (F) SEM The Sample
ARTS 207 - 01 (F) SEM The SampleDivision INick W. ZammutoM 7:00 pm - 9:40 pm
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