John Oswald was one of the major exponents
of the “Appropriation art”, whose purpose was to make art profitable for
everyone, so that everybody could produce and take advantage of artistic
creations to assemble new productions.
This kind of new art was highly defended
by Oswald, who thought that art should have been available for everybody for
artistic purposes and that’s exactly what he did when he released his most
ambitious composition Pleasure in 1993. This piece was put together
through the cut-up method, that consist of montaging songs in a certain order.
Pleasure
is a 20-minute collage of songs, characterized by a bewildering complexity.
This piece is extremely complex and fast: I felt like I had agreed to go on a
journey through time and I’d gone inside a time machine that goes incredibly
fast. This time machine quickly transports me into a space-time tunnel filled
with songs from a decade, which I know but can hardly recognize: it feels like
taking a full musical trip from the 80's in fast forward. Although it can sound
confused, I find that there’s a funky beat in the background that makes this
composition really interesting and avant-garde, in fact it reminded me of some kinds
of remixes that I used to listen when I was younger, that were so enjoyable.
Anyway it deals with a composition that
opened the doors for other millions of artists and DJs in the field of remixes and
music collages, that are even nowadays very popular.
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