Just over a year ago now, I mentioned in a post on The Future of Music that Nine Inch Nails appeared to have got into the habit of releasing versions of their songs as free Garageband 'source' files. Just recently, Radiohead have started selling Garageband source files of their latest single (and REM have released free src movie files for a video remix competition).
Checking back on the NIN site, with newly designed NIN remix area, I notice this bit of blurb about Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D, the Year Zero remix album:
(I love it when a prediction comes together... ;-)
Now, I don't know how long it took it took Brian Lamb to: a) find, and b) put together his Confessions of Mashup Unartist masterpiece [background info from the DJ himself), a veritable soundscape of a radio play, rather than a typical audio lecture, but it got me wondering whether or not he was going to release the src too?!
It also made me wonder - if I had any clue about a/v remix - how I would go about finding the resources, putting the mix together, and actually performing it? (I'm not saying I could do this - I'm saying, where would I think to start...)
I guess I'd look for audio by searching for words or phrases to sample using something like or Podscope, even Yahoo's audio search,
The thing is, podcasts are maybe not authoritative enough? This could be though - Spoken Word Services:
Our core aim is to enhance and transform educational experience through the integration of digitised spoken word audio and video into learning and teaching.
...
We are attempting to make a substantial portion of the BBC’s radio archive accessible online for educational use ...
Here's more:
| View | Upload your own
The British Library also make "12,000 selected recordings of music, spoken word, and human and natural environments" available through their Archival Sounds Recordings Service, although if you actually try to listen to the content or do anything with it out of the gaze of the Copyright Police, they'll have to shoot you... ("This is an audio resource for UK higher and further education. Anyone can search or browse the information on this site. For copyright reasons, only people in licensed UK higher and further education institutions, or in our reading rooms, can play the recordings. Downloading is available in licensed institutions.").
For anyone into info skills, here's a query to the internet archive that sould make your heart glow: http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=mediatype:audio AND collection:opensource_audio AND /metadata/subject:"Spoken Word".
Returning to the idea of mashup unartistry, several video shorts by John Monk, a colleague here at the OU, also come to mind...
The point being? Finding a short piece of audio and annotating it with images might be an easy way in to a first a/v mashup...?
Performance wise, I always liked the idea of a google jockey supplementing a presentation with up to the minute, relevant examples? (Or maybe a guerrilla google jockey using a backchannel to twitter counterfactuals and reminders of previous policy commitments in realtime in a political debate?!)
That said, to really push the boat out, a live vj mix could be, err, different?! (I really should have a play with VJamm or the Neuromixer AVdrum, which looks kinda fun (if dated)!)
Ho hum, what fun it must be to be a kid today...Blogged with the Flock BrowserTags: remix, av, mashup, madness
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