David Bowie has invited fans to bootleg his music — and he’s offering prizes for the most creative “theft”. The musician’s website urges fans to mix classic Bowie songs with material from his latest album, “Reality,” to create a “mash-up” — a track that uses vocals from one song superimposed over the backing tracks of another. Source Not sure how many people still listen to David Bowie but its nice to see artists flowing in the right direction with the technology.
Developments in music software has made the technique long employed by record producers easily accessible to thousands of “bedroom DJs” — a fact that has alarmed record companies battling for control of Internet music distribution. But Bowie, 57, was quoted as saying in Monday’s editions of The Times newspaper that mash-ups were “a great appropriation idea waiting to happen.” “Being a hybrid maker off and on over the years, I’m very comfortable with the idea and have been the subject of quite a few pretty good mash-ups myself,” the newspaper quoted him as saying. The music software needed for the task can be downloaded from Bowie’s Web site, along with tracks from his new album.
Related Posts
- David Bowie: 21st-Century Entrepreneur
- Apple sells over a million songs
- U2 songs posted on the internet
- Top 100 Songs of All Time?
- Torrents, piracy and beyond: will the film industry survive?
Loading ...
