Media Meditation # 1: Gifted Unlimited Rhymes Universal (GURU) Continuing Tribute

GURU JAZZMATAZZ ALBUM COVER

ALOE BLACC’S GURU TRIBUTE WITH MIGUEL ATWOOD-FERGUSON ENSEMBLE

Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Ensemble "Deliver the Word" feat Aloe Blacc from Miguel Atwood-Ferguson on Vimeo.

This is an amazing live jazz tribute to commemorate the late and great GURU, the emcee and 1/2 of one of most influential (and best in my opinion) hip-hop groups of all time, known as Gang Starr.

This live performance is a testament to this emerging world of video recording live music, and the realm of bands covering others music. This is a tribute to the great vocals and music of Gang Starr, as well as the life of GURU.

We can honor a piece, by redoing it in our own way, film it (production techniques) and transmit this new remixed version to millions on the web. This is a technological shift to digital media, as well as an aesthetic shift of the convergence of technologies and various platforms. This is a blend, and coming together of media. Video, participatory web, live music, the possibilities are created.

There is also the personal shift, from a mass to a personal or participatory world, where we can contribute to this video by commenting on it with others, or making our own new version to share with everyone else, all from the privacy from our computer screen. And this cycle of sharing media continues.

This point can be tied into Cascio's controversial article. How this world of adapting our brains to the intake of information on the web is an emerging phenomenon in the way we navigate the web, and consume information. We change the way we think about gaining information, we train the web to give us what we want. This is what happened to me, I navigated the web to find a piece of live music I enjoy. Directly a result of the enriched digital media world on the web that Cascio praises.

I love live jazz, and hip-hop, and Gang Starr. This coupled with this new world of digital media on the Web 2.0, can offer things that I enjoy right to my fingertips, from the wonders of corporate ownership of Google-Zon (Youtube/Blog-spot/Google Image Search). I tell this emerging web what I like, and it presents a world to which information is directed towards me.

Another DJ Premier Related Item:








This is a video of Premier working with a French rapper, showing how global media production is today.



credit to the djpremierblog.com



and Vimeo