Monday 21 March 2011

Postmodern music - Original or Authenticity Disrupted

Music has changed so much we now question whether they are original or authenticity disrupted?
Well as postmodern has taught us that nothing is original anymore, everything is a copy of a copy of a copy, segments of songs picked and tweaked to meet the artists needs, whether it be a beat or lyrics.
Dan Black is a good example of this as he has used many segements of other songs and put them together to create a song, which has then gone on the be manipulated and mixed further.

Dan Black - Symphonies  is extermely postmodern.



These days anybody can make music and call themselves original, however they are no more original than the bible, as like the bible sections are added constantly and changed. Modification of songs has became so easy that it can be done with fewer than FIVE clicks, with the use of correct hardware and software. Software like Virtual DJ allows someone to drag and drop tracks into the software and manipulate the song, whether it be by tempo or special effects, they can have two songs playing at once, known as beat mixing, where they play two songs at the same time with similar beats and tweak it up.
DJ Shadow is one of the original artists to make music, even if some of the elements of his music are taken from some original music, this is because he takes the music, makes it into his own samples and then DJ's with the samples live, instead of DJ's today who have the tracks mixed already on their laptop and all they have to do is press play.

iDaft is an application on the Internet (Web 2.0) and iPhone, it is Daft Punk's way of allowing the listeners to participate in Daft Punk's music, and edit/create their own songs, using elements of Daft Punk's 'Harder Better Faster Strong' & 'Technologic', it allows the listeners to feel like they are apart of Daft Punk and participate in creating music.
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Web 2.0 is a website that allows users to interact fully. An example of this is iDaft.

2 comments:

  1. Neil. This is a great start. You've really impressed me this term, you work exceptionally hard and are not afraid to make mistakes and improve. Try and expand on the Daft Punk example with some personal interaction with the text.

    Once Mr Ford has taught you about DJ Shadow expand upon your examples for him.

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  2. Thanks Mr Smith, means a lot that it's not going un-noticed.

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