A certain Khan Noonien Singh also comes to mind . Such a great guy . sStrange choice of name for the character , considering what and who he is . <| sep |> Indeed I do interpolating other music is easy to find in the baroque and before and after . Bach did it . Mozart did it . Berio did it , more recently . Certainly a great many others have done so across centuries . They weren ' t interpolating recordings directly but that is a distinction of tools and technology at play as opposed to compositional methodology . The piano roll is a representation , and even it was led to through a series of technological developments . I don ' t have an agenda here I simply think our industry overfetishizes the tools not that I ' m insinuating that there is an appropriate quantity of fetishization . The time of Mozart also included many nonwestern musics , but that is another matter altogether I don ' t think the barrier for entry into musicmaking in the western world being lowered itself constitutes a broadening of process .