ABSTRACT
The historical context of how sampling developed throughout the twentieth century is considered, as well as its symbiotic relationship with recording technologies, and how sampling works differently across various forms of media from audio to video; text to image; software to interactive media. Many authors who have considered sampling in their work acknowledge the fundamental stages of remix, which include: the appropriation of an extant recorded artifact as source material. The contemporary and familiar form of sampling images, sound and film has been technically possible since the invention of various mechanical recording technologies in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The fundamental act of sampling is the same in any media form; however, the language and effects produced by sampling in music, film, art and literature can be quite different. John Boswell’s process for sampling and remixing follows the steps, that is, selection/manipulation/composition.
