HW Creativity

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One of my favorite things to follow online in Internet culture. It's fun. Give someone a media platform like Youtube or Adobe Premiere, and they'll take it and make their own - People are artists after all; one should never underestimate the power of boredom either. I had the opportunity to read the article of music mashups - an interesting method of artistry for music composition. The article "1+1+1=1" from The New Yorker depicts musician Jeremy Brown, as he experiments with the rhythm, instrumentation, and song beats of a plethora of genres. He was able to mix Indie, classic rock and avant-garde music with contemporary feels of pop and hip-hop. He mixes artists like rap mogul Jay Z with British Invasion phenomenon group the Beatles to create new music. New accessible technologies in music fosters musician creativity and make platforms such as music mashups.

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