Together with artists performing at Rewire, researcher and editor Hannes Liechti will discuss the culture and politics of musical sampling, focusing on the reasons and intentions behind the artists’ sampling processes. Why do artists sample? What are the reasons behind the selection of particular sampling material? What are the intentions behind strategies of sampling? Discussing these questions will reveal a complex net of contexts, meanings, and often deeply personal choices and creative decisions, while establishing connections across times and territories. 

Hannes Liechti is a popular music scholar and lecturer living in Bern. He works as a curator, editor, and producer for the platform for music research Norient. His book This Track Contains Politics: The Culture of Sampling in Experimental Electronica (2022) has recently been published with Norient Books.