Mashup Assignments (try random one)

Similar Songs

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Submitted by: Audra Young

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Mashup two (or more!) songs that are similar to each other, by either the same or different artist(s). Do your best to show the similarities—edit parts of the songs next to each other. If it's possible to do this without making it sound terrible, try to overlay the songs at parts to highlight how much they sound alike.

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Similar Songs

This assignment comes from this one. Originally, I was going to mix together different Taylor Swift songs, but Youtube to MP3 was not working for me anymore, so I used audio files that I already had on my computer from other projects. For this mashup, I used the songs …

Filthy Blueberry Brow Disaster

“Mashup two (or more!) songs that are similar to each other, by either the same or different artist(s). Do your best to show the similarities—edit parts of the songs next to each other. If it’s possible to do this without making it sound terrible, try to overlay the songs at …

The Harv’s Island Theme Sounds Very Familiar…

by Thomas Pulsifer

For Audra Young’s 4-star prompt, “Similar Songs,” I was trying to think of what songs I might know that sound just like another song. After struggling to think of an example, I decided to take a break and play the recently-updated Animal Crossing: New Horizons. …

similar songs

Mashup two (or more!) songs that are similar to each other, by either the same or different artist(s). Do your best to show the similarities—edit parts of the songs next to each other. If it’s possible to do this without making it sound terrible, try to overlay the songs at …

DOES HE MAKE IT HARDER ON YOU?

For my first mashup assignment, I decided to take another shot at properly mashing two songs up. However, as opposed to my earlier Kinks/MF DOOM mash-up, I specifically tried to think of two songs that were actually musically similar in terms of melody and harmony, not just rhythmically.

I …

Nursery Songs

Have you ever noticed that Twinkle Twinkle, the ABC Song and Ba Ba Black Sheep all have the same toon? For this assignment I edited the three songs together to show their similarity.

I was hard to find a all three songs with the same tempo so I had to …

Mix ‘Em Up

This assignment was one of my own creation, because I didn’t see anything quite like this in the ds106 assignment bank. It’s pretty straightforward: mashup two songs that are similar to each other (regardless of if it’s the same artist or if the artists are different).

These are the details …

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