At 5:54 PM -0400 8/17/01, Liebig, Steuart A. wrote: >whether the term composer needs to be revamped "Compose" from the Latin "com" + "ponere" = "to put together" A simple, inclusive term, but with perhaps less specificity than you'd like. I sometimes use "sound artist" when I don't want the musico-historical reference. "Musical collage performance artist" might be useful if it weren't so unwieldy. "Plunderphonicist" works for me, but I'm a John Oswald fan. -- ______________________________________________________________ Richard Zvonar, PhD (818) 788-2202 http://www.zvonar.com http://RZCybernetics.com http://www.cybmotion.com/aliaszone http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?autostart=rz