My response to Colson Whitehead's article about New York. He states that everyone creates their own New York and I respond to the question "What is Digital Composition" by making this video. We all create our own digital composition. We might look at the same things, but it's all different to everyone behind their own screen.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Friday, May 18, 2012
Hey! This computer isn't broken!
Well, I finally got my lovely computer back and powered through my afternoon finishing up my music video. It's so overdue, but I just wouldn't have been satisfied if I hadn't finished it. It was a lot of fun to make.
Decided to gather clips of dubstep concerts and use an orchestral remix of Skrillex songs to make a music video. I love the orchestral piece so much that when I go back and listen to the originals, it just sounds like someone fucked up the violins with dubstep. Skrillex sucks as a dubstep artist... I mean, he's not as bad as Deadmau5, he's definitely worse than Pretty Lights and is certainly no Bassnectar or Glitch Mob, but I fell in love with the orchestral version and when you're in love with a song, what else is there? Ha.
So I'm waiting for this thing to process but, here's my reasoning.
As I mentioned, I heard this song and was like "fuck the original." Usually, I'm not that type of person. I don't even like live versions of songs 95% of the time (but I do love concerts). I heard this and it was just so well done and ... coming from a ballet background, I love violins, violas, cellos, bass. They're all so pretty. But I'm a fanatic for the electronic stuff. Have you ever heard an electric violin?! It's SO cool. I'm into music where they don't sing, but use sound clips as their "lyrics," and yes, I love dubstep. I fucking hate when someone just takes a sawtooth wave and screeches the hell out of it for 3 - 4 minutes, but a well done dubstep song that's actually worth my 3 - 4 minutes, makes me a very happy camper. So, inevitably, I've developed a liking for remixes.. Considering all Pretty Lights does is (in his words) "take soul tracks and make them hot." It's good stuff when the guy actually understands the fundamentals of what makes a good song and is daring enough to change it up.
I think I've digressed. My point here - when you hear a remix, you're hearing the song from another artist's perspective. Think of how fucking many versions of David Bowie's "Changes" there are. Most people don't even know it's Bowie's original. "Yesterday" by the Beatles is the most widely redone song in the entire world (please talk to the Beatles professor for the validity of this statement). Most people either take to or resist remixes because they liked their initial perspective of the song.. or like the new perspective they're presented with. I decided to lay the orchestral version over clips of actual dubstep concerts because the altered perspective it elicits. Seriously, you can't wait to see this video. ;]
Realized I uploaded a shitty resolution so I'm redoing everything. Will post the link ASAP.
Link, yo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH6qRdN7X1U
-Marisa
Decided to gather clips of dubstep concerts and use an orchestral remix of Skrillex songs to make a music video. I love the orchestral piece so much that when I go back and listen to the originals, it just sounds like someone fucked up the violins with dubstep. Skrillex sucks as a dubstep artist... I mean, he's not as bad as Deadmau5, he's definitely worse than Pretty Lights and is certainly no Bassnectar or Glitch Mob, but I fell in love with the orchestral version and when you're in love with a song, what else is there? Ha.
So I'm waiting for this thing to process but, here's my reasoning.
As I mentioned, I heard this song and was like "fuck the original." Usually, I'm not that type of person. I don't even like live versions of songs 95% of the time (but I do love concerts). I heard this and it was just so well done and ... coming from a ballet background, I love violins, violas, cellos, bass. They're all so pretty. But I'm a fanatic for the electronic stuff. Have you ever heard an electric violin?! It's SO cool. I'm into music where they don't sing, but use sound clips as their "lyrics," and yes, I love dubstep. I fucking hate when someone just takes a sawtooth wave and screeches the hell out of it for 3 - 4 minutes, but a well done dubstep song that's actually worth my 3 - 4 minutes, makes me a very happy camper. So, inevitably, I've developed a liking for remixes.. Considering all Pretty Lights does is (in his words) "take soul tracks and make them hot." It's good stuff when the guy actually understands the fundamentals of what makes a good song and is daring enough to change it up.
I think I've digressed. My point here - when you hear a remix, you're hearing the song from another artist's perspective. Think of how fucking many versions of David Bowie's "Changes" there are. Most people don't even know it's Bowie's original. "Yesterday" by the Beatles is the most widely redone song in the entire world (please talk to the Beatles professor for the validity of this statement). Most people either take to or resist remixes because they liked their initial perspective of the song.. or like the new perspective they're presented with. I decided to lay the orchestral version over clips of actual dubstep concerts because the altered perspective it elicits. Seriously, you can't wait to see this video. ;]
Realized I uploaded a shitty resolution so I'm redoing everything. Will post the link ASAP.
Link, yo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH6qRdN7X1U
-Marisa
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
I've Been Neglecting You, Blogger.
Just watched some of my classmates' projects for this Digital Composition class and I really feel like now I'll have a better handle on where I'm going with my own project.
I watched Ben Williams' concept in 60 and it showed how some people eat and live so lavishly and they don't even realize the poor and decrepit right in the same streets. That was neat. It showed clips back and fourth of each life. I also watched Holly Stark's but I didn't really understand where it was going. At first all I heard were nature sounds over a city which I thought was going to be something along the lines of, "this used to be the nature you're hearing now" but when it flipped to nature, I still heard nature. Maybe I'm just not in her same mindset for this.
Then I decided to take on a music video. The first one was about a dog dying and it was kinda super depressing and since I have my own unlucky history with doggie-deaths, I decided not to watch that video after about 30 seconds. Especially when I had watched someone cry for almost 12 seconds. Soooo.. then I watched Laila Ammar's video featuring the Young the Giant song. Again, wasn't sure where exactly she was going with it because it's hard to understand their lyrics, but when I read her synopsis of it being something about a "transition," I kind of understood it better. Really cool music video though.
Also, I'm not doing my previous idea for the video at all now.
I watched Ben Williams' concept in 60 and it showed how some people eat and live so lavishly and they don't even realize the poor and decrepit right in the same streets. That was neat. It showed clips back and fourth of each life. I also watched Holly Stark's but I didn't really understand where it was going. At first all I heard were nature sounds over a city which I thought was going to be something along the lines of, "this used to be the nature you're hearing now" but when it flipped to nature, I still heard nature. Maybe I'm just not in her same mindset for this.
Then I decided to take on a music video. The first one was about a dog dying and it was kinda super depressing and since I have my own unlucky history with doggie-deaths, I decided not to watch that video after about 30 seconds. Especially when I had watched someone cry for almost 12 seconds. Soooo.. then I watched Laila Ammar's video featuring the Young the Giant song. Again, wasn't sure where exactly she was going with it because it's hard to understand their lyrics, but when I read her synopsis of it being something about a "transition," I kind of understood it better. Really cool music video though.
Also, I'm not doing my previous idea for the video at all now.
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