HW Creativity

New media is an avenue that artists and users alike can use to foster and nurture creativity. New media allows users to use tools and technological advances that were not previously available to them. One example would be the way mashups are made and exemplified through "Frontin on Debra" (Frere-Jones, The New Yorker) Another famous example would be an album called the Grey Album that mashed up Jay-Z's Black Album and The Beatles White Album. New technological advances within music technology allows artists like Brian Burton (Danger Mouse) to use tools like Acid Pro and such to loop certain beats and notes to make it easier to make a mashup. This leads to thousands of possibilities when it comes to music choices and mashups. Everything you need is found online, there is no real need to have expensive equipment and a lot of training. This means that the average person could train themselves online to combine music together to make new music. A great example of this would be viral youtube videos of artists that have mashed up songs using online tools. Us The Duo, Kurt Hugo Schneider, Alex Aiono, and many more are just some of the few artists that used these tools available to them to inspire creativity that inspires those who watch them. 

Frere-Jones, Sasha. "1 + 1 + 1 = 1." The New Yorker. The New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2015. Web. 28 Mar. 2017.