a) Title: “ Let’s Go To Jail! The Mashup and Beyond ”
b) Abstract
Topic: The Mashup Genre of Music (e.g. Danger Mouse's "The Grey Album")
Interface: DVD
Genre: Interactive Game with components of being Essayistic and Encyclopedic
Main Message/ Thesis: The mashup genre is important to music's future in our modern remix culture, as it becomes easier for the average person to become a participant. However, the genre will only be allowed to flourish so much as copyright enforcers allow it.
c) Methodology
The project would have two sections.
-An archive of other peoples' mashups for the user to listen to. The collection will introduce unfamiliar audience members to the genre. For familiar audiences, it will be an encyclopedic display of artistic works that are not publicly available. This collection also shows the increasing popularity of the genre and suggests it as an emerging, important art form.
-A display of my new creative work. I will create a mashup album and document my process. Since I am a music performance major, I feel this creative musical process will be a valuable learning experience in my academic field. This will also show how technology is allowing more people (like me) to become participants in our remix culture.
d) Media Presentation & Justification
-The whole DVD experience would be a game, in which every copyright infringement is counted in a video game type counter. Every time a copyrighted piece of music is heard, every time a copyrighted image is shown, and every time an instance of my new work’s infringement is displayed, the DVD will keep track in terms of a jail sentence. The more the DVD is used, the higher the jail sentence. This will hopefully show how limiting copyrights are to the genre. With all the creativity by myself and others showcased on this DVD, it will show how copyrights are hurting that creativity.
Hopefully, this project will then:
-Introduce and explore a new and rapidly growing form of music
-Allow me to create musically in the form of a new art piece (as musical creation is central to my major)
-Have a meaningful message and give a meaningful warning to society about the future of music
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Matt Jung
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2 comments:
I commented on your earlier, brainstorm, post before I saw that this was already posted - start with those comments and let me know if you have questions.
this is a really interesting idea, but as a music fan i would like to be able to experience creating a mash-up myself. maybe you could create some sort of interface where users can choose some pre-set music clips and combine them in a form of their choice. you could structure it the way you already have it, with an archive and then your creation and finally a game at the end that allows them to create their own.
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