Samplings musicales versus samples literarios

Abstract

In recent years, terms from electronic music have been frequently used to describe practices of literary appropriation. One of these concepts is sampling, which has also been generally applied to other artistic disciplines. I’m interested, however, in highlighting specific aspects of sampling as it is understood in the field of electronic music, and particularly the considerations of Mark Katz, who states that this procedure corresponds to a form of “performative” quote. From there I propose an analysis of a series of works of visual poetry and sound poetry that corresponds to this form of appropriation, for they are based on the direct manipulation of the materiality of language and its media. This comparison, in my opinion, allows the arousal of new questions about the status of literature.

Keywords

• sampling
• literary appropriation
• visual poetry
• sound poetry
• electronic music