Plundering the Grateful Dead by Clive Young Long before the mashup became a cultural touchstone, there was Plunderphonics, the brainchild of John Oswald, a Canadian avant garde composer who would create dense musical works by stacking different musical works on top of each other—a process he called "folding." One of his best-known efforts was the 1994-95 composition, Grayfolded, which mixed together 100 live recordings of the Grateful Dead jamming through "Dark Star" in concert. Creating such a project today would be intimidating, but given the technical limitations of DAWs and computers at the time, the fact that he pulled it off is all the more amazing. Released in two parts between 1994 and 1995 on CD, the experimental work is now being released on vinyl for the first time as a three-LP set on Important Records. Digging back through the PSN archives, here's my coverage of how the project was created, from the December, 1995 issue of Pro Sound News. More » |
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