I'm sure watching RiP was pretty close to mind blowing, but what happens when you throw the crowd into the mix?
If your brain wasn't electrified with Girl Talk's massively amped up creativity, then I don't think you could possibly be prepared for Kutiman. Using an orchestra of various You Tube-goers as his library of sound, Kutiman creates original music from the World Wide abyss of what some pretentious folk have lovingly termed as "amateur" trash. Whether or not the pieces of You Tube that Kutiman uses are actually trash on their own, remains to be seen, but used as the source of the Israeli musician's tunes, they are very clearly transformed.
Kutiman explains his process below:
There's no doubt that You Tube is a collective of untapped talent (and attention whores), but I haven't encountered anyone else utilizing it as more than a repository for everybody's easily accessible videos. What Kutiman's art has in common with Girl Talk's is the ever-present question of legality. Who will get payed when and how is the dominant driving force in the conflict between new media creation and big media ownership.
Kutiman's case is an interesting one though, since he doesn't use any previously copyrighted music, only pieces of others' unregistered intellectual property. Whom he credits, as he explains in the video above. So I imagine if anyone included in any of his music had a huge issue with it, he might be inclined to remix the sound without them and pull something else from his crowd of sources.
But since we're all looking for that great five minutes of shameless, self-importance, who in their right mind would be willing to do that?
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