{"id":487,"date":"2009-03-13T01:03:54","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T01:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2009\/03\/video-remix-heaven-thruyou-and-constructing-the-self.html"},"modified":"2009-03-13T01:03:54","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T01:03:54","slug":"video-remix-heaven-thruyou-and-constructing-the-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/03\/video-remix-heaven-thruyou-and-constructing-the-self.html","title":{"rendered":"Video-Remix Heaven! ThruYOU and constructing the self"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kutiman, an Israeli musician and producer, cut together a bunch of &#8220;bedroom musician&#8221; videos from You Tube for a project he&#8217;s calling <a href=\"http:\/\/thru-you.com\/#\">Thru YOU<\/a>.\u00a0 It is strikingly complete and mature for the internet mash-up meme, and it avoids coming across as a mere gimmick or novelty.\u00a0 He&#8217;s blowin up!\u00a0 Check out this first video and then check out the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/thru-you.com\/#\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<iframe title=\"Kutiman - Thru-you - 01 - Mother of All Funk Chords\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tprMEs-zfQA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nFrom a more Dharmic perspective &#8230;<!--more--><br \/>\nI like to think of these videos as showing the process in which the idea of &#8220;self&#8221; might be developed.\u00a0 If I were one of Kutiman&#8217;s songs and I believed that I had a self, I might think that I existed independently of the <em>intention<\/em> of the musicians who created the original source videos.\u00a0 I would have a sense of organic unity and a consciousness that felt whole and complete, some might use the phrase &#8220;greater than the sum of its parts&#8221; to describe me.<br \/>\nBut since we are not one of Kutiman&#8217;s songs we can clearly see the interdependent elements that went in to creating his finished songs (they were created &#8220;ThruYOU&#8221;).\u00a0 The ability to go and see the original videos on their own allows us to see the original <em>intention<\/em> of the &#8220;bedroom musicians&#8221; much more clearly than we can in the mash-up version.\u00a0\u00a0 And it is clear that their <em>intentions<\/em> had nothing to do with Kutiman, or each other, they were just people making nice sounds!<br \/>\nAnd <a href=\"http:\/\/thru-you.com\/#\">ThruYOU<\/a> makes it so easy to access the source videos of &#8220;nice sounds&#8221; (click the &#8216;credits&#8217; button during one of the videos).\u00a0\u00a0 The research and the finished piece are both right there, simultaneously, in a single, fluid interface, so users can instantaneously witness the development of a finished &#8220;song&#8221; (it&#8217;s even quicker than watching VH1&#8217;s &#8220;Behind the Music&#8221;).<br \/>\nThe same technology is allowing us a similarly user friendly interface to explore our own notions of &#8220;self&#8221;. We have the ability to externalize and share our inner mind with such ease, and the process of constructing our identities on the internet is so transparent (&#8220;would you like to upload your profile image from your computer or link it from a URL?&#8221;).\u00a0 Which leaves me with a question at the end of this:<br \/>\nIf something that feels &#8220;greater than the sum of it&#8217;s parts&#8221; it is called &#8220;Great Art&#8221;,\u00a0 so is the act of calling it &#8220;Great Art&#8221; also upholding the idea of &#8220;Self&#8221;?\u00a0 Does &#8220;bad&#8221; art dismantle the self?\u00a0 And is <a href=\"http:\/\/thru-you.com\/#\">ThruYOU<\/a> a rediculously amazing synthesis of &#8220;Great&#8221; and &#8220;bad&#8221; art?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kutiman, an Israeli musician and producer, cut together a bunch of &#8220;bedroom musician&#8221; videos from You Tube for a project he&#8217;s calling Thru YOU.\u00a0 It is strikingly complete and mature for the internet mash-up meme, and it avoids coming across as a mere gimmick or novelty.\u00a0 He&#8217;s blowin up!\u00a0 Check out this first video and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":188,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Video-Remix Heaven! 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