To understand exactly how ahead of his time Seeger was, take these two snippets from interviews he gave many years ago that were replayed on the Today programme.
Well, as the third volume of "The Messengers" proves, he can remix Dylan's originals, seed the remixes with sound snippets from interviews, and rap over the resulting music.
Mr. Kahane created a libretto that weaves text from the guides alongside snippets from interviews conducted for the project and excerpts from "Spending to Save," a 1938 book by Harry Hopkins (one of Franklin D. Roosevelt's confidants) to document the organization's activities.
In his absence, French-language television repeatedly broadcast last week snippets from an interview he gave a few hours before he was shot.
Below are snippets from an interview with Nick Montfort, a professor of digital media in the Comparative Media Studies and Writing section at MIT. Nick is also an interactive fiction writer, computational poet, and code studies scholar.
In "25 Questions" she seamlessly weaves anecdotes from her own life with snippets from the interviews; she's the single, Jewish, kosher-kitchen lesbian mother of two sons, with a strident Jewish mother of her own.
He also explains that some parts of the translation released by CNN, of words Fars had claimed were never spoken, were in fact uttered just after the snippet from the interview that was initially broadcast.
Below, check out a snippet from an interview I did with the inimitable artist Douglas Gordon during the Venice Film Festival exactly three years ago.
Instead Daft Punk took snippets from two long interviews with the producer and layered them over an epic track incorporating a pastiche of the Moroder sound.
Best of all are the snippets from Carson's interviews with people aged ninety and upward, whom he addresses as exact equals, with care and without condescension, never patronizing them, and never afraid to laugh when they get a sentence back to front or forget the punch line of a joke; one such encounter is with a woman of a hundred and three years, who is still a licensed driver.
The book takes a montagelike form: Excerpts from interviews, snippets from books and newspaper articles, letters and photos (some new) and photocopies of documents have all been assembled along with the authors' own remarks into a sprawling, cut-and-paste collage.
