BRIEF STATEMENT OF IDEAS

Film events.
Sample the noises.
Make a new track out of the samples.

Technological advances in mobile phone technology coupled with the rise of Web 2.0, where user generated content plays such an important role on the internet, means that we are seeing a democratisation of TV on the web. People can make their own films, shorts or silly clips and upload them to sites such as YouTube or Vimeo and broadcast their works to the world.

But it's not just the television broadcast companies who are worried about the pull of Web 2.0; the music industry has also been effected by this shift in power. Sites like myspace enable musicians to showcase their work to millions, negating the need to a suited executive to judge whether their work is 'good' enough.

Web 2.0 has given rise to the next level of the remix generation. Users can rip a video from YouTube, alter it, make fun of it, cut it up and paste it back in whatever ways they please...then upload their new remixed version onto YouTube again!
It's no different to hip-hop artists sampling old funk breaks and rapping over the top to create something entirely new.

Taking influence from musique concrete composers like Pierre Schaeffer, who made music by reorganising found sound samples recorded on to magnetic tape,



the sampling ethos of bands like the Art of Noise (who used digital samplers in the 1980's)...



and hip hop artists like Grandmaster Flash...




Our Aim
Is to record footage of music and noise around us on our mobiles. Using this material we will cut up and re-paste to make a collage of organised sound, creating our own original composition.
We will then edit the original video clips in time to the audio.

How?
To do this we will have to import all clips into Adobe Premier and rip the audio from each clip.
With these audio tracks we can sample our own library of sound and manipulate them in a Digital Audio Workstation such as Cubase to create a new song.
After the new track is finished, we will import the audio back into Premier, and sync the visual to the audio.