Trash Media Mixing & Mobile Jamming

Been getting into a bit of the immediate Celebrity Trash Video Remix stuff along with some friends like Josh Pearson & Greg Deocampo. I've always been interested in the immediate media remix idea , like EBN or Coldcuts news remixes but in this case within 24hours of the event happening and with trashy pop icons. So we've launched Smearadonna, to host this immediate pop culture implosion, watch as the debauched story unfolds, repeatedly. I've never brought myself to divulge the location of the video remixes of utter and complete wrongness but their out there on the digi web.

Another concept that we've been collectively working on is the video remixing game. In it's simpliest form a video sampler to play with on a games device or the internet. With Mediatronica we worked on the WAR jet li kung fu beats jamming widget and have since been developing that idea further.


Guitar Hero & Rock Band have grown huge, even becoming a new revenue source for labels revitalizing their old wares. Turntable/HipHop/DJ Style games have been around for a bit, but what i want is something that is part game part media remix tool. Most of the time cutting , pasting, remixing, adding effects fells like far more a game then other musical endeavours. Eclectic Method's live set is configured much like a jamming game where we all combine fragments of audio and video fast and thick to create a live improvised set, sometimes chaotic sometimes magnificent. Out of this came the idea for the simpliest mobile jamming social network style game, Mojamm or Mobile Jamming. The idea being that users of different mobile devices would collect audio-video clips that will play in sync with their friends devices when they meet, as in below video.


On top of the video stuff been making video and audio remixes for the excellent J Live who we met touring the Middle East last year and also the NYC based band Apes & Androids who i played with at Christmas. Also check out this Lucky Highstepper salute to KRS One. We got a new mix of U2's vertigo up on iMeem today. Also check out this interview on CNET featuring the method, DJ Lars and Roonie G.