Music Genre Assignment

1. NEO PSYCHEDELIA
-MGMT
-MGMT uses the analog synthesizer and a synthesizer uses analog circuits and analog signals to generate sound electronically. MGMT uses synthesizers a lot in their music to create their electronic/alternative type sound. The instruments usually look like a keyboard that produces a different sound and can dramatically change the sound of a song with just one push of a key. 

2. NINETIES
-Pearl Jam
-Pearl Jam uses The White Fender Stratocaster which is a type of electronic guitar that is sometimes used by Pearl Jam head Eddie Vedder. Pearl Jam is one of the best current rock bands, in my opinion, they started up in the grunge area after Nirvana and followed their trend of low sounding guitars with the use of technology in their guitars but sticking to classic rock standards of instruments. 

3. DJ CULTURE
- Grandmaster Flash
-DJ Grandmaster Flash is a solid figure in the DJ Industry for his work in the creation of sampling and creation of the empath mixer, in part based on what technical challenges he needed to beat. Without sampling or beats, there would not be much music for DJ's to use.

4. DISCO

-Kool and the Gang

-Kool and the Gang is an R&B disco band that mixes soul with dance music. Their most famous song is "Celebration" and they used technology in the '70s and '80s with the use of the keyboard to produce sounds to make their soul music something people could dance to. 

5. GIRL POWER

-Lady Gaga

-Lady Gaga is one of the most successful artists in the world right now and while she has an amazing voice and is very talented in playing music she uses a lot of technology in her performances to further elevate her image and show effects on her face like the David Bowie tribute she did where she projected David Bowie's face onto her own. 

Performance Art Video

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqI5VhinM5g

Xerox Project

 For my Xerox Project, I used my arms and legs as tree trunks and my hands as leaves to show trees coming together and all the leaves touching to show the unity with people and nature. Growing up on my block all of my friends would say if our trees were touching then we would be friends so to me this represents friendship with people by representing it through nature but with my body parts. I also like how my hands are touching like a team coming into a huddle and all putting their hands in so this has multiple ways to show unity and that was my main goal through this.

Robots

I think in the future that robots will be everything and that is pretty scary to think of. In almost all movies about robots, they rise up and try to take over the world which is pretty reasonable to think. When we place all human jobs into the hands of robots they will dictate how everything runs and if things go wrong there's nothing we can do because they just get smarter and smarter. There needs to be a fail-safe in each robot that will shut them down if things go wrong. But as a lot of movies show robots can be smart enough to disable that fail-safe then we would really be screwed. We already have a lot of automated things which are replaced human jobs like self-checkout at stores and self-driving cars. Some things make things easier but a lot harder to trust. I always use self-checkout but sometimes there are problems that only humans can solve, and as far as self-driving cars I would not want to trust that just based on the fear if something goes wrong. To save jobs every robot should have a human handler so there isn't mass unemployment but moving the world to be more technologically advanced.

Flip Book Video

This is my Flip Book Video, I chose to do an underwater scene with different fish swimming through, yellow submarine, and a man fishing. I added underwater noises to get the full effect. Here is the link for better quality: https://youtu.be/cJwTa9ikBG8

https://youtu.be/cJwTa9ikBG8