The history of mashups started from the mid-1990s where
songs had to be sampled, turned into hybrids with the extensive use of open
source programs. Artists used to gather mashup programs from various
programmers just to make one mashup. Then came, the process of publishing and
distributing it (which used to be a whole lot of work). Basically, creating
mashups was not only time consuming for mashup artists but also a lot harder
compared to now. In the article, The
New Math of Mashups by Sasha Frere-jones, Mark Vidler, professionally affiliated
with the Go Home Productions, shared his thoughts on recent digitization as ““You
don’t need a distributor, because your distribution is the Internet. You don’t
need a record label, because it’s your bedroom, and you don’t need a recording
studio, because that’s your computer. You do it all yourself.” Today,
behind-the-scenes work of a mashup has become so less that with the right
software and enough time, one can not only listen to mashups but can also
create it by himself. This proves, digitization enhances creativity and boosts
intelligence.
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