In this forum session, we watched a video David Harris made called "Youtube Biopsy" which is a collection of videos taken from youtube.
There were a lot of different videos and it was mixed all over the place. From the launching of space shuttles, to disasters, to impossible Mario game scenarios.
According to David, he had this piece performed before accompanied by a piano piece he wrote, but during Forum, the music of Vicki Bennett from People Like Us. Their music is really interesting as it recycles many other music and it mixes them around. Some of the mix sound horrible but most of the mixing sound really amazing. As it's very interesting, it also generated some arguments amongst teachers and students in the Forum (and it was the first time I said something in the discussion!).
I personally think that this has quite a high value despite the fact that it doesn't originally make music but recycles music. One of my arguments is that people regard highly of the motets of the medieval period (where they mix 1 plainchant with 2 secular songs). If the people of the medieval period did that and it is regarded as valuable, isn't People Like Us' music based on the exact same idea with differrent type of music?
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music of all times and cultures has in some way or other recycled material. And in the late Medieval period this also involved what today would be called 'mash-up' - 3 or 4 voices singing different things in different languages. But it's often harder to accept something that is new than something old that has been 'sanctioned' by history.
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