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Re: A Cool YouTube Mashup

gorecki36 — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:40:43 -0000

its also interesting to see that brands like SONY (probably with the right guidance) "tuned to that sound", as early as 2007 (about a year after the video was posted, but still early).

Check the www.walkmanproject.com (see the similarity in the mix section).

Re: A Cool YouTube Mashup

Idit Harel Caperton — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:58:34 -0000

I love ThrouYou and how easy it is to find the how-to: http://thru-you.com/#/video... - so personal and real.

Re: A Cool YouTube Mashup

fredwilson — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:41:01 -0000

No, but I'll check it out

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AndyFinkle — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:37:43 -0000

Fred - I think this is just the tip of the iceburg - Had you seen an earlier blog post I wrote about this last year?;

http://www.afpr.com/2008/11...

http://twitter.com/A_F

Re: A Cool YouTube Mashup

David Noël — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:15:03 -0000

I was thinking about a way for them to collectively earn money off of their work. Kutiman should leverage the buzz by teaming up with US and Euro tour/concert agencies and do a real-life sort of musical with everyone in the videos. A show every night for a week in several cities in the US and Europe. Haven't run any numbers but my guess is that it should generate some cash for all artists involved

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Michelle McCormack — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:48:16 -0000

I did a post about him last week: http://www.cloudoutloud.tv/... What's really excellent is his innovative site. :)

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vruz — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:55:22 -0000

it is flowing already, it does have a value already.

the only problem is the middleman is not getting paid for it.

Kutiman could easily charge via Paypal himself.

I don't see a problem here. I see people trying to apply problems to a solution.

Re: A Cool YouTube Mashup

Keenan — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:41:13 -0000

I had no "definition" of marketing in mind. My point was simply
this, if the medium continues to grow in popularity, it will have a
value, if it has value, people will pay, if people are willing to pay
who gets the money?

Marketed in the traditional sense or in the non-traditional sense I
think is irrelevant. Once money starts flowing people are going to
want to get paid, how do we decide who and how much?

I agree with your last sentence. My question was asking exactly that,
things are changing, so how do we address them?

Re: A Cool YouTube Mashup

vruz — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:42:55 -0000

It begs the question, does it really have to be marketed in the traditional sense ?

It's probably not hard to trace back every bit of Kutiman's work to every Youtube user, and it's probably not hard to write software that does this in a relatively automated way.

There will be new processes, and new business models that will have to be tailored to accomodate this reality, instead of what we've been doing until now, forcefully trying to make everybody comply to the ways of a world that doesn't exist anymore.

We are living in the future :-)

Re: A Cool YouTube Mashup

BmoreWire — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:12:09 -0000

hmm....now that I think about it this would probably be pretty easy to do on final cut pro or avid......time to dust off my old mac from college with final cut on it.

Re: A Cool YouTube Mashup

fredwilson — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:21:33 -0000

Yeah I watched that too

Amazing work

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fredwilson — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:21:21 -0000

The whole idea that anything like theft is going on here is total nonsense

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fredwilson — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:21:17 -0000

It sure is

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fredwilson — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:21:13 -0000

That's great to hear.

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darylkulak — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:38:37 -0000

Thanks, that is a really interesting mashup. You can see where the musician's movements are repeated to match the beats and the notes. Kutiman is very creative.

Re: A Cool YouTube Mashup

Stefan — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:14:15 -0000

If you read the Wikipedia talk page, you can see that the artists are usually quite happy to see their work being mashed up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Re: A Cool YouTube Mashup

Keenan — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:05:43 -0000

Phenomenal! l can't help but wonder, as mashup popularity grows, how the ownership issue will be handled. Who owns the end product? Who get's the proceeds from the commercialization and marketing of the Mashup.

There are no rules for true innovation, as it was never expected. This is truly innovative. It will be interesting to see how it plays out.

Re: A Cool YouTube Mashup

Joe Lazarus — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:58:34 -0000

Kutiman's other remix, The Mother of All Funk Chords, is my favorite...

http://thru-you.com/#/video...

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Chris Dodge — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:19:31 -0000

I'm sure Brian Eno is loving all of this as this makes me recall of Eno's tape looping systems of the 70's.

Although I'm not a musicologist, but I think Eno's really the father of all of sampling. As another commentor said, sampling is becoming more and more fine grain and precise. This will definately lead to another form of audio decontsruction and re-synthesis.

Good stuff! Makes me want to put on "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" which - I believe - heralded modern audio sampling.

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Nick Molnar — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:58:08 -0000

As the samples keep getting smaller and smaller, it will become easier for people to understand that mashups are not theft, but creation.

What would happen if he went one step further and only took one note from each source?

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aanwar — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:34:56 -0000

Wow. I really loved it. It's amazing.

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James Sherrett — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:21:23 -0000

And if you want to play and download the MP3s of the songs, we parsed them from the video and made them available here: http://blog.adhack.com/2009...

The videos spread around our office in about 10 seconds and everyone said, 'I want to be able to listen to that away from my computer.' So we created the MP3s to share.

Re: A Cool YouTube Mashup

OurielOhayon — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:57:59 -0000

Fred, very real, This series of videos was created in Israel but a talented guy. There was an article about him in the local time out, last week. I observed lately a trend in video mashuping. maybe this is just the beginning.

Here is the link to the article (sorry in hebrew) http://www.flickr.com/photo...

Re: A Cool YouTube Mashup

AllenMai — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 10:39:39 -0000

Hey Fred,

This is very real, check this out: http://www.techcrunch.com/2...