Caption: Thru-You YouTube Music Mash-up from User Generated Content, Credit: Thru-You.com / Kutiman
Image by: Thru-You.com / Kutiman 
Thru-You YouTube Music Mash-up from User Generated Content 

The Evolution of the Mash-Up

From: Andrew Davis
Length: 00:07:44

Mash-ups (creating new art works from existing creative pieces) have been around for at least two decades, but the digital universe has helped this medium evolve rapidly. Andrew Davis explores the evolution of the Mash-up. Read the full description.

Picture_5_small At music venues and night clubs around the world, disc jockey's are giving way to a new brand of music performance artist. Mash-up artists (formerly known as DJ's) use a mixer and at least two music sources to create something entirely knew... a mash-up experience.

Andrew Davis explores the world of Mash-ups and their digital evolution.

This segment features interviews with:

Chris Menning from KnowYourMeme.com
Brad Schwarzenbach, Digital Content Strategist from Tippingpoint Labs

Innovative work from mash-up artist Kutiman is featured and can be seen at Thru-You.com

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Piece Description

At music venues and night clubs around the world, disc jockey's are giving way to a new brand of music performance artist. Mash-up artists (formerly known as DJ's) use a mixer and at least two music sources to create something entirely knew... a mash-up experience.

Andrew Davis explores the world of Mash-ups and their digital evolution.

This segment features interviews with:

Chris Menning from KnowYourMeme.com
Brad Schwarzenbach, Digital Content Strategist from Tippingpoint Labs

Innovative work from mash-up artist Kutiman is featured and can be seen at Thru-You.com

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Transcript

INTRO
At music venues and night clubs around the world, disc jockey's are giving way to a new brand of music performance artist. Mash-up artists (formerly known as DJ's) use a mixer and at least two music sources to create something entirely knew... a mash-up experience.

Andrew Davis explores the world of Mash-ups and their digital evolution.

DREW:
DJ Hood, DJ Adrian and the Mysterious D and a guy who calls himself Girltalk are all - mash-up artists. Here's a nice definition of a mash-up:

Chris Menning:
3:50 A mashup is... 2 or more sources... nearly equal parts... creates one cohesive derivitive work... music video mashup.

That's Chris Menning, a researcher, writer and community manager at KnowYourMeme.com. Everyday, Chris watches internet memes like Mashups take hold and spread across the globe and for a long time he's charted the evolution of music mash-ups and in the summer of 20...
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Intro and Outro

INTRO:

At music venues and night clubs around the world, disc jockey's are giving way to a new brand of music performance artist. Mash-up artists (formerly known as DJ's) use a mixer and at least two music sources to create something entirely knew... a mash-up experience.

Andrew Davis explores the world of Mash-ups and their digital evolution.

OUTRO:

Musical Works

Title Artist Album Label Year Length
I'm New Kutiman None. None 2009 01:00
Hands in the Air Girl Talk Feed The Animals. Illegal Art 2008 01:00

Additional Credits

Brought to you by Tippingpoint Labs

Related Website

http://www.thru-you.com