ANATOMY OF A MASHUP: Definitive Daft Punk Visualised
A mashup is a song created by blending two or more other songs. The more complex a mashup gets, the harder it is to distinguish the parts that are being used to create what you’re hearing. This visualisation of the song “Definitive Daft Punk” by Cameron Adams dissects a mashup in realtime to show you how each of the 23 parts contributes to the greater whole. I find that this is such a great example of how something invisible, was made visible. But is it Art?
Stanford encyclopedia of Philosophy states the following:
The definition of art is controversial in contemporary philosophy. Whether art can be defined has also been a matter of controversy. The philosophical usefulness of a definition of art has also been debated.
Contemporary definitions are of two main sorts. One distinctively modern, conventionalist, sort of definition focuses on art’s institutional features, emphasizing the way art changes over time, modern works that appear to break radically with all traditional art, and the relational properties of artworks that depend on works’ relations to art history, art genres, etc. The less conventionalist sort of contemporary definition makes use of a broader, more traditional concept of aesthetic properties that includes more than art-relational ones, and focuses on art’s pan-cultural and trans-historical characteristics.
I believe art is a matter of subjectivity and it has to relate to a feeling. Art is something that makes you feel something else. Art should evoke and provoke sensations and it is therefore subjective.
Below is a beautiful piece by Debussy set to an aesthetically pleasing and magical visual which some may call a form of artistic expression.
Debussy – Arabesque
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