Forum week 11 - Build &/or Destroy Music

This week was a very interesting topic, talking about how remixed music is either being built or detroyed when remixing popular songs.
Simon (1) went first and brought up the first and very simple fact that pretty much everyone hates Justin Timberlake's music, but whenever you hear his famous line 'I'm bringing sexy back' and one of his many remixed version, it will make many want to get up and dance.
He then went o to talk about similar songs like the 'Ghostbusters' Theme, showing a remix that he did himself, als which he decided he had 'destroyed' not 'built'. haha. I actually didn't think it was that bad.
He also had a large section on 'Daft Punk' Showing a few songs that they had "Jacked" a very repetitive word used in his speech. One of these songs, which actually turned out to be a no. 1 was 'Stardust'.

Nathan went next talked about Metal music, black metal in particular. He talked about how they like to go the opposite way with technology, many recording their songs by the simplest technology means, and definately not using any high tech equipment. He also pointed out a very amusing fact that there are christian bands that play 'Black metal', the only problem is, is that they actually calll it 'Unblack Metal'. (2)

Thirdly the third person (I'm so sorry i did not get your name!) talked about 'music's power to create different emotions and influence us', particularly focusing on scary music. He described it as being a lot like bright music Vs. scary music = Major Vs. minor. He also explained how both physical and timberal elements are used when trying to get the right effect. He then went on the play us many exampls, many from an artist named 'Lustmord', whose music i found very interesting.

References:

(1) Whitelock, Simon, Forum #1 music technology Week 11 - 'Building &/or destroying music', EMU University of Adelaide, May 24, 2007.

(2) Shea, Nathan, Forum #1 Music technology Week 1 - 'Building &/or detroying music', EMU University of Adelaide, May 24, 2007.