From the Movie Music Comparison – Can You Score? 4-star assignment: Blend two songs from any two different movie scores, creating a mix of the two songs into one. You will need to use Audacity or iMovie/Garageband to edit the clips together. This may sound a bit daunting, but it’s fun to do! A great way to check on two different songs sounding the same is to look at YouTube Doubler – http://youtubedoubler.com/.

http://youtu.be/Ej1zMxbhOO0 - Phantom of the Opera
The music is composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber and sang by Emmy Rossum and Gerard Butler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WKN0XF8-3Q - Prince of Egypt
The music is composed by Hans Zimmer and sang by Ofra Haza

These are my two favorite things to watch during the school year when I need background music so I thought I’d smoosh them together and make the Phantom of Egypt which make an interesting juxtaposition.  A little eastern flair with a very western event and they’re both very epic-sounding.  I think that the best part is that with the two different storylines that they still can work together and inform the other.  I used audacity to layer, play with sound levels, and add effects.

What has been strange about mashing music is that you have to take into consideration a lot of other things like sound levels, tempo, beat (rhythm, etc.) and think about what the lyrics are saying.  Next time I mash up songs I think I’ll try and use instrumentals instead because I think the biggest problems that I ran into doing this particular assignment was that of lyrics interfering with each other.