Mashup Music

Immerse yourself in a world of mashup music.

Lurking in the grey area between legitimacy and copyright felony, mashup music provides endless entertainment for music aficionados. Creative, cheeky and surreal, mashup music has emerged from the underground and surfaced into popular culture through the work of 2manydjs, osymyso and Go Home Productions.

With Peer-2-Peer networks including Kazaa, Limewire, BitTorrent and beatmapping techniques anyone can practice bootlegging. Hear from those who have gone before: How did audiovisual innovators Geoff, Ian and Jonny, also known as seminal bootleggers Eclectic Method, make it as successful mashup artists celebrated around the globe? Find out their motivations and thoughts on creativity and sharing in the music world.

Christian Ahlert discusses the copyright issues raised by mashup music. Is Digital Rights Management for online music really dying out? How can doing things the ‘Creative Commons’ way revamp the world of music? What rights should an artist be able to impose on their work, and why?

Interactive inventor Gavin Morris is on hand to demonstrate his specially-created musical instrument the beat jigsaw - experiment with it to create your own mashup music and VJ style graphics.

Talk Digital Rights Management with the rest of the audience and invited participants and decide what you think the future of music industry should be. You’ll be voting on a final pitch, any good ideas may be copyrighted…

Finally, Eclectic Method take the stage to demonstrate how mashup music pushes the boundaries of innovation in music as they radically recycle music to create new sound.

As part of Exhibition Road Music Day 2007

Event organised by:
The Science Museum

Speakers

Christian Ahlert, Creative Commons UK
Gavin Morris, Interactive inventor, Boredbrand
Eclectic Method: Geoff Gamlen, Ian Edgar and Jonny Wilson