Concepts:
appropriation
self-reference
sampling and looping
computer-aided composition

Music on reserve:
Charles Dodge, Any Resemblance is Purely Coincidental (1979; 7:56) MUD 42678 track 1 Alan Feinberg, piano
Pauline Oliveros, Bye Bye Butterfly (1965; 8:10) MUD 42819 track 3
Sonic Youth, Audience (1983; 6:00) MUD 56365 disc 2, track 3
George Lewis, Voyager, no. 1 (1993; 3:00) MUD 34885 track 1
Paul Lansky, Idle Chatter (1985; 9:26) MUD 37239 track 1

Reading:

George Lewis, "Interacting with Latter-Day Musical Automata," Contemporary Music Review 18/3 (1999), pp. 99-112.
Chris Cutler, "Plunderphonics", in Simon Emmerson, ed., Music, Electronic Media, and Culture, pp. 88-114