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hybrid construction sets
I'll be at the Associated Writing Programs Conference this week, so blog entries might be somewhat sparse (although I'll blog my conference notes if I take any that are interesting).
But first:
Many of you may have followed the story of the creation and supression of DJ Danger Mouse's Grey Album, which mixes together elements of Jay-Z's Black Album with the Beatles' "White Album." (See the Grey Tuesday site for more information about how people have publicized and disseminated the album.)
In the wake of the Grey Album came the wonderful Jay-Z Construction Set, "a toolkit with all of the necessary software and raw material to create a new remix of Jay-Z's Black Album. It includes nine different variations on the Black Album, over 1200 clip art images, and a couple hundred meg of classic samples and breaks." This strikes me as fabulous, for reasons well-enumerated in this article, which suggests that music companies could do worse than to follow the "videogame content creation model."
As one would expect, highly inventive re-mixes are beginning to pop up all over. The one I'm most partial to is Black on Black, which mixes Jay-Z's Black Album with Metallica's Black Album. You can probably track this down online through using a bit torrent utility, or I'd be happy to trade my copy of it for something, at least until I get the cease-and-desist from Metallica's attorneys. Labels: music_commentary |
Wednesday, March 24, 2004
12:09 PM
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