MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH…
Conversation with Vicki Bennett on her sound collection
The following is a transcript of the email conversation with plunderphonic artist and sound collector Vicki Bennett, which took place in Summer 2013, as part of the research process for the podcast series MEMORABILIA. Collecting sounds with…
Vicki Bennett (b.1967) is been an influential figure in the field of audio visual collage, through her innovative sampling, appropriating and cutting up of found footage and archives. Using collage as her main form of expression, she creates audio recordings, films and radio shows that communicate a humorous, dark and often surreal view on life.
These collages mix, manipulate and rework original sources from both the experimental and popular worlds of music, film, television and radio. An avid collector, Vicki operates under the moniker People Like Us and promotes an open access to archives for creative use.
The Composer
If sampling had seemed an inherently revolutionary practice in the eighties that called into question the definition and the authority of the composer, the proliferation of artists in the decade that followed reasserted that authority. Mainstream audiences finally recognized appropriation as a legitimate form of creativity once artists became comfortable practicing it as a form of self-expression.
Conversation with William Bennett on his sound collection.
This is a conversation by email with William Bennett (Whitehouse), which took place on March 2011, to prepare a monograph on his sound collection.
Cumulative Tails
Cumulative Tails is a pun upon the 'cumulative tale', where each part of a story relates to that which just preceded and followed it. This radio mix, curated by Vicki Bennett, has been created using that process – a succession of audio tracks picked in conceptual relation only to that which was previously played.
Vicki Bennett
Interview with Vicki Bennett, plunderphonic genius behind People Like Us.
John Oswald
John Oswald, one of the leading exponents of sound appropriationism, talks about his work.