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NMC Jam Pack
Posted August 13th, 2008 by Alan Levine
Participants at the NMC 2008 Summer Conference had a special opportunity to visit the John Lennon Bus - a world class audio/video studio on wheels-- and spent 15 minutes laying down a lick, a groove, a vocal, that was processed by bus staff as Apple Sound Loops. The loop files are designed to be used in audio editing software to mix and match in tracks to generate new songs.
We are proud to announce today the availability of the 2008 NMC Jam Pack, the collection of drum, guitar, vocal, and instrumental loops recorded by:
What Would Herman Melville Say to Soulja Boy?: Remix Culture and the New Media
Posted June 23rd, 2008 by Alan Levine
Closing Keynote, 2008 NMC Summer Conference, Princeton University
Henry Jenkins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
New media technologies make it easy for us to circulate, appropriate, transform, and recirculate media content on an unprecedented scale. It is part of the mythology of MIT that young people learn to become engineers by taking apart household gadgets and putting them back together again. Can we say the same thing about contemporary artists and humanists — that they learn by breaking down and remixing elements of their own culture? We falsify the creative process when we teach young people that great art comes from single and isolated intellects rather than emerging from the creative engagement with and appropriation from older cultural traditions.
