Obama the musical

I love talented mashups...

and so imagine turning a political speech to music. And what do you know, will.i.am is a talented mash up artist (which has clearly replaced re-mixer sometime since 2006). So please find the Yes We Can Obama Song by will.i.am which took Senator Barak Obama's concession speech after loosing the New Hampshire primary, and turned it to music.




take care,
Will Knott

tags : mashup, politics, music, Will.i.am, Obama, New Hampshire, primary

The Spirit of John Philip Sousa

When the precursor to the phonograph arrived, John Philip Sousa was not a happy musician. He fretted that people would stop spending time singing the old songs and the songs of the day.

I don't know if he meant mixing them together, but he was right.
Sort of.

The law changed in such a way to make these mixes illegal. But Mashups still live...

Yup I'm going to Mashup University (and possibly Mashup Camp too). Sousa (and perhaps Larry Lessig) would be proud.

To see what I'm talking about here is Larry Lessig talk on Creativity recorded at TED in March of this year. And yes I so want to go to one of these.

Embedded video from T.E.D. Talks series



tags : John Philip Sousa, mixing, copyright, law, mashup, Larry Lessig, creativity, TED

One time at Mashup camp

To be honest, the word mashup makes me think of music before technology, but technology internet technology mash ups are the best thing to happen to the web.

A mash up is a mixing of two disparate elements to make a unified whole. Those elements could be Lilly Allen singing "LDN" mixed with Chad Jackon's "(Hear the drummer) Get wicked" or a Google map mixed with Dublin bus routing information and timetable to generate all the usable bus routes near any location.

Well Mashup Camp and Mashup University are coming to Dublin (after an abortive attempt earlier in the year) in November, and personally I want to go to the Uni sessions as I want to learn this. What can I say, I'm used to half of this, taking data from a single source and manipulating it to reveal the underlying structure. Mashups mean that you take the data from one (or more) source(s) and manipulate it to fit the structure of another data set (e.g. crime data and a geographic map).

Of course the sign-up for the uni isn't working but...

In the meantime, here is a mashup of a different sort... Dunproofin's "LDN WDK"


take care,
Will

tags : mashup, music, technology, mashupcamp, Mashup Camp, Mashup University, Dublin, Dunproofin

A little bit of ABC

I feel like a little light music...

So here is Booty of Choice. There is a technological mashup, but the music mash came first.



tags : YouTube, dunproofin, Fat Boy Slim, Jackson 5, mashup

Forget the world, since you've gone

I've girded myself up to spray another spurt of text across the net again. I sort of have to get in the habit of posting more often, but ...

I'll do a Barcamp report shortly, but I've been looking at my own blog, and there will be changes soon.

For those of you visiting (as opposed to RSS reading) you'll see a long blogroll of bands on the Left hand side. It's going to go away soon.
I've been using the wonders of "MyBlogLog" to see that, with the exceptions of Snow Patrol and The Frames those links go largely ignored.

Which makes sense since it's been a long time since I've blogged about music and gigs.

So I'll offer this... a shared google calendar of Cork Gigs. If you have any gigs or events you would like to see included, just e-mail me the details with "GIG" in the title so the spam filter doesn't eat it up.

I'm surprised that various venues don't offer their own shared calendar of events.

Not exactly a European Irish listing but...

And typing of Snow Patrol... (and the frequent search for "john marr - toxic rhythm" which lands on the blog due the mashup and Bootie weakness I have) I'll thank Rick O'Shea for this mashup... (I'll give it a week before YouTube take it down).

The Police Vs. Snow Patrol - "Every Car You Chase"


and to return the favour

John Marr - Ain't No Other Man Can Get Get Down




take care,
Will

tags :
changes, blogroll, MyBlogLog, Snow Patrol, The Frames, music, gigs, calendar, gig guide, Cork Gigs, European Irish, john marr, Rick O'Shea, mashup, bootie, The Police, Every Car You Chase, Ain't No Other Man Can Get Get Down