Music Mashups

[sermad]

These are brilliant - http://thru-you.com/

Seriously seriously good.

Mr Hopkinson - Lets have some more monkey jazz too.

[jahshabby]

Man, they are amazing! So much care and work...

Cheers for posting that.

[Old School Tramp]

genius!

[Mr_Hopkinson]

Brilliant!

Out of interest, how did you find it? It's using youtube for the source material, but they ( the mixed movies ) don't seem to be on youtube . . . even though its made to look like they are embedded from there.

I wonder how YouTube think about it - they had a beta remix tool a while back, but it disappeared and now they seem less friendly to creative use of them, with them muting the unlicensed audio of fan made videos etc.

I've been toying for a while with the idea of some interface that could let you improvise live looping and mixing accessed live from youtube - I would need to do a lot of working out, or work with a coder to get there tho . . .

[kenneth]

Sweet jeezus

[DRSMITH]

word..

[someblokecalledfuz]

Wow, jaw dropping stuff!

[TOWNY]

[BlackRegent]

Good grief! Not only are these technically jaw dropping, the music is stunning.

When track three comes back with the chopped up piano, strings and that girl singing, its just out and out quality

[jam]

That is stunning. Cheers for posting.

[beddoes]

I did one whilst singing earlier this afternoon. I was stoned and didn't notice for awhile... "Here, There and Everywhere" into Diana Ross's "Do You Know What You're Looking For" and back again and back again.

[sermad]

Originally Posted by soundhog

I didn't realize what this was about for a while, as the word "m*s*up" is programmed into my browser's swear filter. However, it's good stuff indeed. Dare I say it, but to me it's very much an extension of what Godley & Creme were doing in 1986-ish with 'Mondo Video'...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX48C-ebR3U

The music's not up to much in retrospect, but the basic idea is the same... Remember when you really did need half a million pounds' worth of gear to do this kinda shit?

That is brilliant - Your totally right the idea is exactly the same except these new ones are from found content not a performance.

[Blighty]

These are stunning. Much like that Three Piece band video only more er..stunning. Website's been killed though.

[Mr_Hopkinson]

Originally Posted by sermad

That is brilliant - Your totally right the idea is exactly the same except these new ones are from found content not a performance.

I think that it's found footage is an important point, and does make it cruically different - there's obviously similarities and both are great, but you couldn't have done exactly this at the time the kit was prohibitively expensive, not because of that of , but because the internet/YouTube wasn't here so such a broad range of 'real' people weren't making their footage 'available' in the way they are now . . . using that, and being able to reference back to the source clips is brilliant and could have only happen in this way right now. And that's nice.



Oh and I may as well link to my , just pre youtube ( for footage collection ), take on the idea . . . http://davidhopkinson.org/cuttingupmyfriends.htm

[Mr_Hopkinson]

I don't know of an earlier one than this . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Swupyqbi5ks#t=5m00s . . . anyone ?

[sermad]

If you guys were to name this style of cutting up videos - what would call it?

[Mr_Hopkinson]

I just say cut-ups, and then if necessary a/v cut-ups to be more descriptive . . . but a good snappy name that was specific could be useful . . . or a curse . . .

[sermad]

video mashups seems to work for me only because in bootlegg circles 'mashup' is pretty common.

[Thelonious MOke]

Originally Posted by sermad

video mashups seems to work for me only because in bootlegg circles 'mashup' is pretty common.

'mashups' or 'blends' are generally just 2 songs mixed together.

MrH's 'cut-up' is probably more apt, as this is really just sampling, but using video instead of vinyl, which is a much more evolved process.

[ginghamkitchen]

Eisenstein would have called it 'rhythmic montage', but then he never watched YouTube.

[BlackRegent]

This has now graced the hallowed pages of the Metro's "Ridiculant", that fine purveyor of all things online.

So its us and the other millions. Can't help but feel its what it deserves though

[Slim Jim]

It's a little similar to an art installation by Coldcut that I saw in Barcelona in 2002. That was a room where three walls had 16 identical screens each. On the floor in the middle were 16 pressure pads to stand on, as soon as you stand on a pad it set off a video clip of a musician playing a sequence and depending on how quickly you could jump from pad to pad, dictated what the resulting musical mélange sounded like - great fun for big kids everywhere!!

[Mr_Hopkinson]

Originally Posted by sermad

These are brilliant - http://thru-you.com/

Seriously seriously good.

Mr Hopkinson - Lets have some more monkey jazz too.

Not new Monkey Jazz, but here's a simple 6 camera cut of a simple Beardyman improv . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&f...&v=Ux2dF84qSHk

[BlackRegent]

Brilliant!

[alanmck]

great stuff as ever. love the pissy comments on the new one too.