cover of plunderphonics EP

A: Plunderphonics (click the "p" for an explanation or stroll on over to wikipedia).

Or at least that's what John Oswald called it. From his essay by the same name:

All popular music (and all folk music, by definition), essentially, if not legally, exists in a public domain. Listening to pop music isn't a matter of choice. Asked for or not, we're bombarded by it. In its most insidious state, filtered to an incessant bass-line, it seeps through apartment walls and out of the heads of walk people. Although people in general are making more noise than ever before, fewer people are making more of the total noise; specifically, in music, those with megawatt PA's, triple platinum sales, and heavy rotation. Difficult to ignore, pointlessly redundant to imitate, how does one not become a passive recipient?

For an idea of how Oswald himself avoided passive recipiency, here's a video (made by a fan, not by Oswald) set to his rearrangement of "Hello, I Love You":

Embedded video doesn't seem to work in RSS, so you'll have to visit the actual post.

At any rate, plunderphonics is the best word I've heard all week.

See also: More interesting Christian Marclay video via kottke.