Found Sounds
The found sounds movement is an important offshoot of experimental music that involves artists appropriating prerecorded sounds discovered elsewhere and stitching them together to create their own peculiar sound collages. This practice differs from field recordings in that rather than going out "in the field" to capture sounds, the artist recycles sounds already captured by someone else. Dusty record bins full of esoteric, forgotten albums are popular locales for searching for found sounds, though artists take them from just about anywhere. Some artists, most notably Negativland and others in the "plunderphonics" movement, create compositions exclusively from found sounds, but more often artists use found sounds to counter and complement their own original music.
