With the amount of information available for our fingertips to access the amount of tools for media and content creators to use and draw from for inspiration is limitless. Compared to the past where media was limited to the amount of content you can access from books, newspapers, CDs etc., the internet has given people a large library of high quality photos, video and music all available for anyone with an smart device. With this, creativity is at an all time high with people innovating on all forms of entertainment at a fast pace.
An example of this you can see is in the music scene where producers and DJ's have a plethora of music software and samples they can draw from to create there own original songs and tracks without the need of vinyl's, CD's and instruments. The article from the NYtimes, "1+1+1 = 1" by Sasha Frere-Jones explores the world of music mashups where people take two different songs and make it into one track. These mashups are highly creative with two songs of different genres unlikely to sound good together, are mastered, edited and standardized to use elements of two different songs into one track record which is then posted on the internet for everyone to hear. This accessibility is something that the digital age provides as stated in the article, “You don’t need a distributor, because your distribution is the Internet. You don’t need a record label, because it’s your bedroom, and you don’t need a recording studio, because that’s your computer. You do it all yourself.”
These mashups, if popular enough can also lead to higher and better prospers as a d.j. named Roy Kerr, otherwise known as Freelance Hellraiser, was able to work on official remixes for Christina Aguilera after posting a mashup laying Christina Aguilera’s vocals from “Genie in a Bottle,” a lubricious pop song, over the music from the Strokes’”Hard to Explain,” a brittle, honking guitar song to much success.
Armed with the tools of a computer and the internet, creativity shows no bounds moving forward as people are continuing to explore, share and innovate on various forms of media every day.
Sources:
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxiYXJ1Y2huZXdtZWRpYXxneDoxNjhkNmIyOTBkYzU2ZTQy
An example of this you can see is in the music scene where producers and DJ's have a plethora of music software and samples they can draw from to create there own original songs and tracks without the need of vinyl's, CD's and instruments. The article from the NYtimes, "1+1+1 = 1" by Sasha Frere-Jones explores the world of music mashups where people take two different songs and make it into one track. These mashups are highly creative with two songs of different genres unlikely to sound good together, are mastered, edited and standardized to use elements of two different songs into one track record which is then posted on the internet for everyone to hear. This accessibility is something that the digital age provides as stated in the article, “You don’t need a distributor, because your distribution is the Internet. You don’t need a record label, because it’s your bedroom, and you don’t need a recording studio, because that’s your computer. You do it all yourself.”
These mashups, if popular enough can also lead to higher and better prospers as a d.j. named Roy Kerr, otherwise known as Freelance Hellraiser, was able to work on official remixes for Christina Aguilera after posting a mashup laying Christina Aguilera’s vocals from “Genie in a Bottle,” a lubricious pop song, over the music from the Strokes’”Hard to Explain,” a brittle, honking guitar song to much success.
Armed with the tools of a computer and the internet, creativity shows no bounds moving forward as people are continuing to explore, share and innovate on various forms of media every day.
Sources:
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxiYXJ1Y2huZXdtZWRpYXxneDoxNjhkNmIyOTBkYzU2ZTQy
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