Musical Recontextualization
This podcast episode features a discussion about recontextualization in music, which is when original source music is reinvented or reimagined in some fundamental way. Using examples we find especially compelling, we consider a variety of kinds of recontextualization in a wide array of styles. Examples used are listed below.
Sources for audio samples:
- Piano Concerto No. 2, mvt. II, Sergei Rachmaninov; Van Cliburn, piano; Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner, conductor. Available here or here.
- "All By Myself," Eric Carmen. Available here or here.
- "G-Spot Tornado," Frank Zappa. Available here or here.
- "G-Spot Tornado," performed by Ensemble Ambrosius. Available here or here.
- "Fingerbib," performed by Alarm Will Sound. Available here or here.
- "Fingerbib," Aphex Twin. Available here or here.
- "Such Great Heights," The Postal Service. Available here or here.
- "Such Great Heights," Iron & Wine. Available here or here.
- "Hey Ya," Outkast. Available here or here.
- "Hey Ya," Obadiah Parker. Available here or here.
- "Paranoid Android," Radiohead. Available here or here.
- "Paranoid Android," Sia. Available here or here.
- "Amen, Brother," The Winstons. Available here.
- "Funky Drummer," James Brown. Available here or here.
- "Building Steam with a Grain of Salt" from Endtroducing, DJ Shadow. Available here or here.
- "99 Problems" from The Grey Album, Danger Mouse. Listen here.
- "Reeperlawn" from Tom Shall Pass, Aesop Waits. Available here.
- (outro) "Rhombus," Mason Bates. Available here.