Sound collage

An audio composition assembled from recorded sounds drawn from different sources. It combines, rearranges, or transforms those sounds to create musical or expressive relationships.

Sampling (music): The reuse of recorded audio in a new musical work. Sampling supplies the basic act of transferring existing sounds into a collage.
Musique concrète: A compositional practice that builds music from recorded sounds and manipulates them on audio media. This early French movement established recorded sound as compositional material.
John Cage: An American composer whose experimental works expanded the materials and methods of music. His tape and chance-based works challenged conventional ideas of musical composition.
Plunderphonics: A style of music built from recognizable samples of existing recordings, often altered or recontextualized. It foregrounds appropriation and the identity of borrowed musical fragments.
Soundscape: The total field of sounds perceived in a particular environment or setting. A soundscape describes an acoustic environment; collage deliberately constructs one from selected recordings.
Audio montage: A sequence of audio fragments arranged to create continuity, contrast, or association. Montage shapes collage fragments into a directed sequence.
Étude aux chemins de fer: A 1948 musique concrète work by Pierre Schaeffer constructed from recordings of trains. Schaeffer's railway recordings became a landmark demonstration of sound-based composition.
Pierre Henry: A French composer who developed musique concrète through electronic and recorded-sound works. His compositions brought forceful, theatrical sound transformations to the medium.
Hip-hop production: The creation of hip-hop recordings through beat-making, sampling, performance, and studio production. Sampling-based beat construction is one of collage's most influential popular uses.
Sound art: Art that treats sound as a primary medium, often outside conventional musical forms. Sound collage is one compositional approach within the broader field of sound art.

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