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===In music=== In 1962, the satirical comedy group [[Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band]], got their name after using the cut-up technique, resulting in "Bonzo Dog Dada":<ref name=":0">{{Citation |title=The Canyons of his Mind Vivian Stanshall |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-ymcdUA6g4 |access-date=2023-04-06 |language=en}}</ref> "Bonzo Dog", after the cartoon [[Bonzo the Dog]], and "Dada" after the [[Dada]] [[avant-garde]] art movement. The group's eventual frontman, [[Vivian Stanshall]], would quote about wanting to form a band with that name.<ref name=":0" /> The "Dada" in the phrase was eventually changed to "Doo-Dah". From the early 1970s, [[David Bowie]] used cut-ups to create some of his lyrics. In 1995, he worked with Ty Roberts to develop a program called ''Verbasizer'' for his Apple PowerBook that could automatically rearrange multiple sentences written into it.<ref>{{Cite web|title = The Verbasizer was David Bowie's 1995 Lyric-Writing Mac App| date=11 January 2016 |url = https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-verbasizer-was-david-bowies-1995-lyric-writing-mac-app/|access-date = 2022-07-24}}</ref> [[Thom Yorke]] applied a similar method in [[Radiohead]]'s ''[[Kid A]]'' (2000) album, writing single lines, putting them into a hat, and drawing them out at random while the band rehearsed the songs. Perhaps indicative of Thom Yorke's influences,<ref>{{Cite web|title = Radiohead β Everything in Its Right Place|url = http://radiohead1.tripod.com/songs/album/everything.htm|website = radiohead1.tripod.com|access-date = 2015-10-23}}</ref> instructions for "How to make a Dada poem" appeared on Radiohead's website at this time. [[Stephen Mallinder]] of [[Cabaret Voltaire (band)|Cabaret Voltaire]] reported to ''[[Inpress]]'' magazine's [[Andrez Bergen]] that "I do think the manipulation of sound in our early days β the physical act of cutting up tapes, creating [[tape loop]]s and all that β has a strong reference to Burroughs and Gysin."<ref>"Vintage Cab Sav," Andrez Bergen. ''[[Inpress]]'', 1996.</ref> Another [[industrial music]] pioneer, [[Al Jourgensen]] of [[Ministry (band)|Ministry]], named Burroughs and his cut-up technique as the most important influence on how he approached the use of samples.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Al Jourgensen of Ministry: Full Interview <nowiki>|</nowiki> House Of Strombo|url = https://youtube.com/zHCfiB8n9GA?t=1639|website = youtube.com|access-date = 2019-07-30}}</ref> Many [[Elephant 6]] bands used decoupe as well, one prominent example of this is seen in "[[On Avery Island|Pree-Sisters Swallowing A Donkey's Eye]]" by [[Neutral Milk Hotel]].
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