Rock Vs Pop
The
inspiration for our Webspinna battle was the result of a long chain of ideas,
but eventually came down to a desire to explore the different cultural sides of
music. Our characters, a Rock Star and a Pop Star, attempted to embody the
sorts of stereotypical associations that go with each genre. We explored that
for a while (the Rock Star playing the angsty bad girl and the Pop Star milking
the crowd while tossing her hair), then went on to represent how each style as
affected other genres of music, including each other.
The Pop Star
started with strictly pop music, but eventually used electro-pop, and then
later represented Korean culture through K-Pop. The Rock Star showed her
versatility through heavy metal, hard rock, and symphonic metal. At the
very end, we included a rock-pop fusion by Mr. Jackson himself, because both
genres, though different, have influenced the other. Earlier in the Webspinna
we gave an example of this. When the Rock Star lets out an angry war-like cry,
the Pop Star sees an anime influence and takes the idea of Asian culture, makes
some adjustments, and then responses with K-Pop.
This brings us
back to our discussion in class and how other artist’s work often has a direct
influence on our work. Jonathan Lethem, author of The Ecstasy of Influence, said,
“Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never
experienced. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in
creating out of void but out of chaos.” As artists, our ideas come from so many
places they are hardly our own. Just how “The Grey Video” by Danger Mouse was
root of our inspiration for the idea of a battle between two music types in his
representation of two music types coming together to create something new.
It was from this root that we were able to explore the different types of
sounds associated with rock and pop, as well as the harmony they could create
when combined together.
Truly, the
exploration of sounds coming together is in harmony with the idea of taking one
work and creating our own interpretation with it to create something greater.
To quote Isaac Newton (in true nature of our ideas being a collaboration
of outside sources) we stand on the shoulders of giants, and we sit on
centuries of art and work to provide us with creative inspiration.
Cue List:
Pop Star Chilling with headphones—Sugar by Maroon 5
0:1-0:06s
Rock star opening—Fall Out Boy, Where did the party go?
0:03-0:10s
Pop Star Reacts—Karmin, Crash Your Party
0:00-0:09
Rock Star response—Revving
1:07-1:10
(engine rev inside car)
Pop Star response—crowd
0:00—whenever
Rock Star response—Explosion
http://soundbible.com/tags-explosion.html (have two tabs of this open)
(big bomb & granade explosion)
Rock star takes the stage—Twisted Sister
0:06—whenever you’re interrupted
Pop star—Madeon
Madeon
0:13-whenever
Rock star—love song, Mick Jagger
0:15--whenever
Pop star—Maroon 5
Moves like Jagger
0:41—Whenever
Rock star—international
Top 10 Best Anime Fights
2:23--2:33
Pop star— kpop
Kpop
0:00--whenever
Rock Star—fast, Afterlife - Avenged Sevenfold
4:14-4:34
Pop Star—Michael Jackson
“HEY!”
0:17--0:22
Rock Star
Black or White
0:04--0:50
No comments:
Post a Comment