Mash-ups tend me to my favorite assignments. For example, my second audio assignment for this week is “Music Mash-up”. What we had to do for this assignment was taking two distinct types of music and mashing them up together. I fear that my mashup was a bit cliché but whatever, it’s hilarious. Let me take you through the process!

 

Songs

Deciding which two songs to pick was definitely the hardest. Picking two different styles of music is really easy, trust me. You could clash rock and country, rap and county, and so on. It was important to pick two very different styles of music but also from two different time periods. I enjoyed the whole idea of music connecting together no matter when it was made. So i wanted to start with a classical song. I’m not very hip with classical music so i searched the one man i do know about: Mozart. I mean, we’re forced to learn about him in elementary school, yeah? So i did a random google search ad the first one of pieces to pop out was “symphony 40″ so boom. I chose it! Now, what’s very different from classical music and also very popular and recent? Jay-Z of course! Now, i do not listen to much rap. Rarely.. I don’t know anything about it except that the young kids love it. The only song i do know by Jay-Z is “99 Problems”. If you don’t know this song, well, look it up. It’s a true “classic”. So now that i have these two very distinct, very popular songs, let’s mash them together!

 

Mashing

I already knew how to upload songs from Itunes to Audacity, so that was a breeze. I converted the MP3 files to AIFF and put them into Audacity. I then chose the right length of Mozart’s symphony 40 because it’s so long and matched it up with Jay-Z. Boom. Final step: Making it into one file. I tried literally moving Jay-Z’s song into Mozart’s song but it wouldn’t jive. I was desperate and good friend YouTube helped me out. I straight up search “Merging tracks in Audacity” and this lovely clip came up. Sadly, the man’s first method of mixing songs didn’t work so i tried the second one. YAY! They merged and i exported the file to my computer. Now, I uploaded it perfectly to Soundcloud and life was good! So here is my final product! I think it’s pretty catchy and everyone should enjoy it!

Symphony 40 & 99 Problems:

 

Stars:3.5

Mash-ups tend me to my favorite assignments. For example, my second audio assignment for this week is “Music Mash-up”. What we had to do for this assignment was taking two distinct types of music and mashing them up together. I fear that my mashup was a bit cliché but whatever, it’s hilarious. Let me take you through the process!

 

Songs

Deciding which two songs to pick was definitely the hardest. Picking two different styles of music is really easy, trust me. You could clash rock and country, rap and county, and so on. It was important to pick two very different styles of music but also from two different time periods. I enjoyed the whole idea of music connecting together no matter when it was made. So i wanted to start with a classical song. I’m not very hip with classical music so i searched the one man i do know about: Mozart. I mean, we’re forced to learn about him in elementary school, yeah? So i did a random google search ad the first one of pieces to pop out was “symphony 40″ so boom. I chose it! Now, what’s very different from classical music and also very popular and recent? Jay-Z of course! Now, i do not listen to much rap. Rarely.. I don’t know anything about it except that the young kids love it. The only song i do know by Jay-Z is “99 Problems”. If you don’t know this song, well, look it up. It’s a true “classic”. So now that i have these two very distinct, very popular songs, let’s mash them together!

 

Mashing

I already knew how to upload songs from Itunes to Audacity, so that was a breeze. I converted the MP3 files to AIFF and put them into Audacity. I then chose the right length of Mozart’s symphony 40 because it’s so long and matched it up with Jay-Z. Boom. Final step: Making it into one file. I tried literally moving Jay-Z’s song into Mozart’s song but it wouldn’t jive. I was desperate and good friend YouTube helped me out. I straight up search “Merging tracks in Audacity” and this lovely clip came up. Sadly, the man’s first method of mixing songs didn’t work so i tried the second one. YAY! They merged and i exported the file to my computer. Now, I uploaded it perfectly to Soundcloud and life was good! So here is my final product! I think it’s pretty catchy and everyone should enjoy it!

Symphony 40 & 99 Problems:

 

Stars:3.5