collage

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Layered on top are paint splotches and streaks, as well as taped-on paper and vellum, blurring and obscuring the collage of figures underneath.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2026

Inspired, he started making his own beats, stitching together samples and genres to create a sonic collage reflecting his tumultuous London existence.

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2026

Sometimes, her lyrics seem like a collage of overheard phrases rather than a deliberately constructed narrative.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026

As always, the city was a layered collage best understood through the small encounters and fleeting scenes unfolding at street level as history happened in the background.

From Slate • Jan. 3, 2026

Posterity eventually rewards those, like Bach and Handel, who can absorb and repackage the currents and fashions of their times, giving the resulting collage a distinctive voice of their own along the way.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall