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http://illegal-art.net/girltalk/

http://florianhecker.blogspot.com.au/

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CopyRIGHT or CopyWRONG??

YOUTUBE ACCEPTED IT!!!! 

Appropriation is needed to allow the crafting world to evolve and generate new work that the audience have not heard or seen before. If we don’t draw from past works, we will run out of concepts and mediums. But where is the line between stealing and being inspired by previous works??  

My final music piece uses various samples of songs from well-known artists to sound effects found on YouTube and drew a lot of inspiration from Girl Talk. My final piece consists of samples from Youtube which I downloaded, cut, manipulated, and paste together not quite to the point of nonrecognition but not too recognisable. This is in accordance with the ‘Fair Use’ act, which states that to minimise the risks of Copyright, manipulation to the sample to make them unrecognisable and to bury the samples within the mix.

 When trying to upload my DANCE MUSIC REMIX to SoundCloud I ran into some problems with Copyright. Especially with a particular song: “SEPTEMBER” by Earth, Wind & Fire. I found this extremely odd considering majority of the remix had at least 10 other songs mixed into it that are actually more or even equally as recognisable as the song September... why did SoundCloud only pick up September??? why not Salt-N-Pepper- push it? or Pseudo Echo-Funky Town?? OR even Nirvana- Lithium??.  Due to SoundCloud taking down my remix I then had to cut and changed the samples mashing them together even more in certain parts to make sure that I did not copy a substantial amount of the original work... enough for SoundCloud to pick up anyway. After my song yet again got taken down, again and again, I gave up with SoundCloud and thought that I would upload my song to Youtube and see if they take my song down. After waiting for a little it became clear that Youtube wasn’t going to take my remix down. Whyy? Why didn’t they take my song down like SoundCloud did? They both have very similar Copyright agreements. 

 In regards to others taking music manipulating and remixing it. I personally wouldn’t mind if my songs were downloaded and used, cut, pasted, and remixed as art should not be restricted. This then allows for more dynamic and developed pieces of art as there are no limitations and people are able to explore unique creative concepts and ideas. However, If somebody was to take my music or artwork then tried to sell it as their own that would definitely become a problem. An artist should always be recognised if their work is being used.

This is a screenshot of SoundCloud telling me that they have taken down my song due to Copyright laws

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FINAL PIECE 

My final piece, much like the dance sampling activity was extremely influenced by Girl Talk and how he mixes sound and songs together that normally wouldn’t be compatible. I originally was going to create another horror remix. Giving it a walk through a creepy live like dark forest at night theme to the sounds, however, I kept drifting towards the dance music that makes you want to move your body. Unlike the dance activity where I used both field data and samplings this whole song is solely from other songs mixed together. I used artists like Kesha, Beyonce, Salt and Pepper, and Blue Swede to really show the contrast between the styles of music and how they can be placed together. Making this song through the software Audacity was really quite easy and I only used basic skills such as cut, copy, past, repeat and some effects which are labelled clearly such as WahWah, echo, fade in, fade out etc. I’m pretty happy with this final piece. If I had to change anything it would be to tweak around with the songs and try making them blend together more.

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Florian Hecker: "Event, Stream, Object" from MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst on Vimeo.

ARTIST 1

Florian Hecker -

Florian Hecker born in 1975 in Augusburg, Germany creates sculptural sound installations. Consisting of speakers that are hung from the ceiling with curved mirrors not only reflected the look of the sounds’source but altered the atmospheric sounds’ waves as well. Hecker's interesting concept “Chimerization”, where he manipulates glitchy compositions, to him is a systematic method of summing disparate elements- sound, image, and text and of outputting a new, singular, and distinct objects that retain the intrinsic aspects of all the unique inputting parts. Florian Hecker within his sound installations and live performances present specific compositional developments of post-war modernity, electro-acoustic music, and other non-musical disciplines. Hecker dramatises space, time and self-perception in his sonic works by isolating specific auditory events in their singularity which stretches the boundaries of their materialisation. His works create an immersive intensity through the evocation of sensations and memories. “When working with sound as a material or auditory object, there are a great number of essential prerequisites to consider in order to deepen the intensity of a place: what is it that makes this sound more special or intense than that sound?” - Florian Hecker

I enjoy and find Hecker’s work extremely interesting. The sound that is produced from such a unique piece of “instrument”/ installation is harrowing. The way Hecker takes something that we listen to and turns it into an object making the sound a material is another reason why I found what he does really interesting. 

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ARTIST 2-

Thessia Machado

A visual/sound artist, instrument builder, and composer whose work investigates the physicality of sound and it’s effect on our perceptions of space. In sculptures and interactive installations that have a real-time, live component, the expressive potential is still active and changeable. She also performs electronic and electro-acoustic experimental music with hand-made and modified instruments.Working in analogue and interested in sound physicality, Thessia Machado creates kinetic, sculptural, music-making machines for installations and performance. She makes some absolutely terrifying compositions that consist of LCD screens, found little Tikes toys, customised turntables and cassette decks. “Working with sound allows me to think of the air in which we all swim as yet another malleable and responsive, physical material.” - Thessia Machado 

Thessia Machado’s installation and the music that comes from them are extremely unique and fascinating. There are so many different components to her work that all end up in a strange way working. From what looks like a metal bar rattling in a glass cup to a microphone up against something vibrating, they all work together to create one piece. Which is how and why her work has inspired my final piece.

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girl talk

Gregg Gillis, Known as Girl Talk, is an American disco jockey specialising in mashups and digital sampling. Gregg Gillis crafts a communal pop experience at a time where such thing is rare. Girl Talk Gillis transforms five decades of pop music into well-placed, seamless mixes, then presents those mixes into a large tribal celebration of pop music. Girl Talk’s “legitimacy”  as a DJ, his own legal rights and the strict copyrighting laws have been constantly brought to question. This is emphasised by the fact that he takes other musicians music, mixes then shares his new mixes online for free.Gregg Gillis has a wicked talent for mixing up songs that you wouldn’t have thought would mix. Gillis pairs up the hyper-machismo of Pitbull’s “Hotel Room Service” with Depeche Mode’s “Just Can’t Get Enough” as a musical illustration of ‘Girl Talk’s’ general outlook, a unity borne of the search of hedonistic pleasure. 

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HORROR REMIX

Like I said in the other post we were given an activity to use samples and field recordings to create a dance remix and a horror remix. This one is the Horror remix... not that you can tell. With this remix unlike the dance one, I used more of the field recordings. One of the screams, rustlings, tapping, crunching and light speaking is from my recordings. The violin sound at the start, another of the screams and the Lurch from the Adams family were found and downloaded from youtube and edited on Audacity.

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DANCE REMIX

We were given a little activity where were had to make two remixes. The remixes had to contain both sampling and recorded data. The first one was a dance remix and the second one was a horror remix. With the dance remix, I used a lot of different samplings found and downloaded from youtube such as Salt-N-Pepper-Push it, Willy Wonka-Imagination, Nirvana-Lithium, Pseudo Echo-Funky Town and Earth, Wind & Fire-September. While making this remix I was extremely inspired by Girl Talk and how he mixes songs that would never normally go together.The field recordings I used were sounds like a constant tapping, which is heard in the background, a pop sound, which was made my mouth, and rustling noises.

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3. Sampling

“In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a sound recording in a different song or piece.” -Google definition

To prove and demonstrate constant sampling and the adapting within the music world, we were instructed to download versions of the ‘Happy Birthday’ song and mix it up much like Girl Talk does or any other way that interested us until we were happy with the outcome. My samplings consisted of a Stevie Wonder’s Happy Birthday version, a Marilyn Monroe version and just to add a little spice I also added 500 miles by The Proclaimers

NOT MY HAPPY BIRTHDAY REMIX. My file got corrupted and I was unable to make and upload a new one in time. 

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2. Field work

“Field recording is the term used for an audio recording produced outside of a recording studio, and the term applies to recordings of both natural and human-produced sounds. “ -Google definition

Discussion on how different aspects of the environment are explored by sound recordings was had. We then went out with a pencil and a piece of music sheet given to us earlier. The goal of this activity was to create sound maps of what we heard in our surroundings. We recorded each sound on its own merit by using little drawings instead of music notes. Everyone's sound maps were different. even if they standing right next to each other. Which just shows how individuals take in and filter sounds. For example one of the girls in the class was hungry while doing the task.. so of course, the majority of her sheet consisted of the pop and crunching of a packet of food and the consumption of food around her. During the task, we were able to walk around the UOW campus or stay static in one place. I walked around stopping every now and then. I heard a range of sounds from the chirps of a bird and moving water to the constant rhythmatic beep of a cement truck.

We also got to venture out in class time and in out own time to record sounds that caught out attention or interest. Noises much like when we went out to do the visual listening were present: birds chirping, trucks moving and beeping, talking, feet shuffling, tapping, planes going overhead.. the like.

The little sound/ video recorder used ^

The software we used was called Audacity. At first, it looked and I thought that it was going to be hard to learn how to use but not long after I actually started using the software did I learn the basics. Simple and accurately labeled features, especially in effects, made it easy and little experimentation of “ooh what does this button do” was needed. In the photo above I used field recording to experiment with the software itself. 

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1. Drones

“Drone (music) ... In music, a drone is a harmonic or monophonic effect or accompaniment where a note or chord is continuously sounded throughout most or all of a piece.“ - google definition 

Drone sounds can be found in everyday objects as well as in the natural environment. 

We were told to make a wire drone instrument. After attaching 4 wires to poles at one end and sound boxes at the other, we experimented and played around with the different high and low-pitched frequencies that were made by the vibration of the wires..which were created from us rubbing out fingers along the wire.Once we recorded the sounds coming from the “instrument” we got the opportunity to play around with the sound editing software; Audacity. The software was pretty easy to get the hang of.

OUR TOOLS AND MATERIAL USED .. + the boxes

Attaching the wires to the poles

rubbing the wires to get a good pitch 

the sound boxes