I have to say, I struggled a lot with our week five DS106 Mashup Assignment. I probably spent entirely way too long sifting through the assignment bank in search of something that felt like a good choice and related to my focal theme of emotional expression through creativity. I kept coming back to the music mashup assignment, Opposites Attract so… Read more →
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I had a hard time finding a Mashup assignment that fit with my focal theme, so I chose one that I had some options as to what I needed to use. I decided on Opposites Attract. The instructions state to pick two songs from different genres and remix them together. I decided to go to extremes with my music choices; the songs I chose are: Slayer of Light by Ensiferum (who consider themselves “melodic folk metal”) and Shortnin Bread performed by Noelle & John (children’s music). I’m calling this song: Slayer of Shortbread. Enjoy!
(Warning: If you dislike heavy metal music, this song might not be for you).
We had previously purchased the Ensiferum album and I downloaded Shortnin Bread from Free Kids Music.
When I started creating this mashup I tried using Audacity. Although I’ve used this program before, I struggled this time. I couldn’t figure out how to fade, add tracks and split tracks. I eventually gave up on Audacity and went with Camtasia.
Since I already had the mp3s I decided to use the songs to start instead of finding a video. I wanted to only use the chorus of Shortnin Bread and I tried to space it appropriately with Slayer of Light. I used a lot of audio points and cutting to get just the right mix and fading I wanted.
Because I was making it in Camtasia, I figured I would have to add some video or it would be a really boring black screen with audio. I found a live performance of Slayer of Light and tried to layer it in an it just wasn’t working out. That’s when I found that I could export just the audio!
I then started on making the image to accompany it in when I uploaded to SoundCloud. I found a copyright free image of shortbread and jaggedly cut out half and made the background red for effect. I did all this using GIMP and the lasso and bucket fill tools.
I love shortbread cookies, and sometimes my mouth is the real “Slayer of Shortbread”… yumm!!
Used the song “Papa Don’t Preach” by Madonna and “Around the World” by Daft Punk for this mash-up. Daft Punk’s genre is techno, Madonna’s is Pop.
Develop your own song utilizing the two songs from separate genres. This assignment will be complete using Audacity or a similar audio editing software. An example of a remix would be the utilization a classical song and a pop song in your remix.
http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/opposites-attract/
Used the song “Papa Don’t Preach” by Madonna and “Around the World” by Daft Punk for this mash-up. Daft Punk’s genre is techno, Madonna’s is Pop. I used the audio editing software, Virtual DJ, to combine these two hits. I downloaded the song from youtube converted it through youtube-mp3.org. Drag one song to the left, drag the other to the right. Lined up wave forms, hit play, make sure it sounds right, then hit record.
This assignment is a difficult yet fun one, and can be found right here! The assignment forces you to dig up two different songs that have similar beat structures but are in very different genres, and herein lies the greatest difficulty. Of course audio editing can be tedious and cumbersome, but once the final result is out and hours upon hours are behind you, the feeling of accomplishment is great.
After struggling for a long time with what songs to use in my mashup, I went over to Witt LeFew’s version of the project and was impressed. He did a great job of making the two songs mesh very well, which is not easy to do. He also included a great point in the write up, which is that the songs should have similar beat structures, which is something I hadn’t thought of while in the pre-production process.
For my version of this assignment, I used the songs Lady Madonna by the Beatles, and What I Got by Sublime, two altogether great songs, and also a couple of my favorites.
Lady Madonna
What I Got
Now, here is my remixed version of these two songs, which I worked very hard on.
In this mix I also used a record scratching records sound clip from FreeSound, which was pretty useful.
Now, these two songs aren’t that highly alike in terms of tempo and such, they do have much in common, if you just stop to listen to both for a few seconds each. Both are great songs in their own respect, and as such, I wanted to see how they would fare in a mashup together. At some points it was quite difficult to get the transitions to be smooth, and I hope this doesn’t take away too much from the end result. That being said, it is a pretty tough task to take on, and I worked hard and tried to do the best I could with transitions, and with the points in both songs that I felt would be useful to put together. Anyways I hope you enjoy my final result and feel free to provide criticism and such because I need it! Thanks!
Description:
For this Mashup Assignment I was asked to take two songs from separate genres and create a new song using audio editing software.
Inspiration:
So I decided to use a song from the music genres reggae and classical. I decided to use Bhangra music because I love that music genre. The music is so upbeat and it is completely different from classical music. I used to be on the Eagle Bhangra Dane Team here at the school and this is one of the songs we used at our tryouts. I decided that this would be really easy to combine with reggae music because it is also very upbeat and is great dancing music.
Process:
I picked these two songs out of each music genre from my Itunes library. I then used the program Audacity to edit each song so they would sound like one. I then tried to uploaded my sound to SoundCloud account. But, I kept getting an error message because of a copy right issue. So instead I made a video using Windows Movie maker and uploaded it that way. I decided to combine Balle Balle Hogaye Mitro by DJ Sanj with I’m Okay/Drinking Rum & Redbull by Beenie Man ft. Fambo. I took out the chorus and the ending in Balle Balle Hogaye and replaced it with the one in Beenie Man’s song.
Previous Example:
I thought that this person did an amazing job with their Remix of these two songs. Not only did the use each song evenly but their transitions were great! The only thing I wish that I could recommend to make for this was possibly trying to use two songs that didn’t go so well together, just to give the project an extra push.
Here is the song that I came up with:
This assignment was to take two different genres of music and mash them together. Check out this assignment here-> Opposites Attract. The two genres i like the most are rap and techno so i decided to mix them together check it out and let me know what you think in the comments below.
http://soundcloud.com/matt-poole-4/remix
(i tried embedding it and for some reason it was not working for me this time so heres the link the the cite)
Opposites Attract: Develop your own song utilizing the two songs from separate genres. This assignment will be complete using Audacity or a similar audio editing software. An example of a remix would be the utilization a classical song and a pop song in your remix.
For this assignment I chose to do a song called Party in the USA by Miley Cyrus and a song called Let’s Talk About Spaceships by Say Hi To Your Mom. I wanted to use two different genres, but a song that almost went together. In the song Let’s Talk About Spaceships I ended the song with the singer saying “let’s talk about spaceships, except me and you okay?” at this point I thought it would be good to start with Party in the USA and having Miley Cyrus start talking about the Los Angeles experience. I felt that it went together because the first clip wanted to talk about something else, and the second song starts talking about something else. It was really hard to make it flow together because the genres were just so different and one song was more mellow while the other one is so upbeat. I used audacity to trim the songs and change the oder that I wanted each clip to play.
Original Songs with videos
Worth 4 stars
Oh yes, I have just attempted my first remix. The assignment was “Opposites Attract” where the goal was to bring together two songs from two very different genres to create a completely new song.
I had recently just found out about Wugazi, which was a mashup that was done of the Wu Tang Clan’s album “36 Chambers” and Fugazi, a DC punk band from the early 90s. I loved what they did and that was my inspiration for the above track. Here’s Wugazi.
I started by listening to a lot of my music listening for beats that would be similar enough to each other that they could be put into the same song. That took a LONG time. Overall this assignment was very difficult. I tried to learn how to do vocal isolation, but it is incredibly difficult for even seasoned professionals (which I certainly am not). I eventually settled on Long Arm’s “Power of Rain” and A$AP Rocky’s “Brand New Guy.” They were similar enough in beat and A$AP’s rapping actually synced up pretty well with the beat from Long Arm.
I put them both into audacity and then trimmed out the portion I wanted to use. From there I changed the decibels to make Power of Rain a little louder. Then I fooled around with a few effects that I can’t really even recall to alter the track and make it sound more professional… but that didn’t work so well.
A very difficult assignment. I wish I could have done something to take the music out from A$AP’s track, but it just proved too difficult.
7/7 Stars down.
The assignment, Opposites Attract, I made under the prestesce of creating a mash-up song utilizing two songs from completely different genres. The first task in completing this assignment is finding two songs from different genres that you enjoy and have similar beat structures. Below is a Video Tutorial and the final product of the assignment.
Video Tutorial:
Final song:
