Based on my long years of playing for audiences, about half of the music loving people out there enjoy mashups. The rest think us bootleggers have wrecked their favorite songs. ( lol ) Then, you come upon a smaller but substantial group who just have’ta try & figure out how it’s done. This article today is intended to give very little actual mixing guidance, but still be mildly readable.
Here’s 5 of the 25 ways to mix mashups. I picked only 5 so you can hold them in one hand, while still typing with the other. ( No slight intended to those of you with only 4 fingers ) If you have further questions on this subject, please address them to www.answers.com/
01 - A fairly common method of mashing for newbies is to play an acapella, & an instrumental simultaneously in 2 separate finder windows. You won’t be able to beat, pitch, or level match the sources, but if you’re really good at picking pairings, you can still come up wth something worthwhile. However, many disagree. Really, nearly everyone.
02 - Another regularly employed method of obtaining mashups is to stream 2 radio stations at the same time. Warning - Streaming 2 radio stations at the same time will induce “EFFEMMANIA” ( The fear of more than two radio stations playing simultaneously ) Most home producers can only mix with this method for a hour before coma-like symptoms result.
03 - A very successful method of making mashups is to put your name on existing tracks. This happens regularly anyway, & most people never know you did it. I advise using DJ Earworm
( www.djearworm.com/ ) tracks as he’s far too busy to notice. You’d be surprised at how many bootleggers don’t even provide tagging information to their own mixes. I hear wonderful stuff all the time that as far as we know are all titled “track 01”.
04 - Go the robotic route to have an app make your track for you. There are actually apps that claim to turn your source material into paired material. youtube-dj.com/ ( youtube-dj.com/ ) is fun. You might even come up with a working idea. Just drop the source music on the left turntable, & then drop the singing onto the right turntable. Now click play on them both. Most home producers can only mix with this method for a hour before coma-like symptoms result.
05 - Use either method 03, or 05 to induce coma-like symptoms, then lie back & experience months worth of merged music. A major drawback, however, is there’s no way to save recordings of your induced mashups. Give science a few more years, though. I’m sure that technology was recovered from at least one of the crashed U.F.O.’s recovered over the years.
Well, that’s it, you’re ready to start making your own mashups. One last tip that I got years ago at the GET YOUR BOOTLEGS ON mashup forum was to “Mix drunk, master sober”. Listening to some of the more popular tracks shows how many others agree with that statement. More mashups next week.
• Anthony Horowitz, author of the popular Alex Rider series of children’s books about a teenage spy, grew up in an unusual family. His father was wealthy, but old fashioned and strict. The author says that when he was a kid, he had to “sing” for his supper. He didn’t literally have to sing, but he did have to be an entertaining and witty conversationalist. He says, “If I were insufficiently entertaining, I’d be summarily dismissed.” His mother was a socialite who told him horror stories. He once asked her to give him a human skull, and for his 13th birthday, she did. Today, that skull rests on his desk. Unfortunately, his father seems to have been on the fringes of legality, and the family lost all of its money because his father, in financial difficulty, moved all of their money to a secret bank account, then died without having told anybody where the secret bank account was located or under which fictitious name it had been established. This meant that the author’s mother went from being a rich society lady to working as a company secretary. However, the author says that the last 10 years of her life were among the happiest of her life, despite her lack of money.
• Alice Walker’s father, Willie Lee, wanted her to tell the truth. One day when she was a small child, she broke a fruit jar — a terrible thing for a young child to do. Her father asked her if she was the one who had broken the fruit jar. Young Alice hesitated, wondering if she should tell the truth and take her punishment or lie and try to get out of being punished. She made her decision, and she admitted that she had broken the fruit jar. Her father was so pleased that she had told the truth that he did not punish her; instead, he gave her a hug. As an adult Ms. Walker says, “It was at that moment that I resolved to take my chances with the truth.”
• Children’s book author Jane Yolen’s 22nd birthday was special. On that day, Pirates in Petticoats, her first book, was accepted for publication. She ran to her father to tell him, and he celebrated by buying alcoholic drinks for everyone — except Jane. She was his little girl, and so, even though she was 22 years old, he bought her a Coke.
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• Michael Pollen has written The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, two very popular books about food. In them, he criticizes processed food and recommends that people follow this advice: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” (By “food,” he means real, not processed, food.) Of course, he has been interviewed many times, sometimes at his home, and occasionally journalists and photographers have looked inside his refrigerator and pantry — with or without permission — to see what he eats. Once, a photographer arrived for the interview 20 minutes early. Mr. Pollen remembers, “He said, ‘I’ll just wait in the kitchen,’ and when I walked into the house, there he was, going through the fridge, deciding whether he wanted to photograph it. And he may well have taken pictures of it.” Apparently, these snoopy reporters and photographers are trying to find where Mr. Pollen hides the Oreos. Mr. Pollen does admit that some foods found in his home are not going to be health enhancing, but he explains, “I’m not the only person who lives in this house. I have a son, and he brings in a certain amount of contraband, and I don’t dictate to my family if they want to eat other stuff. And, you know, I’m not a zealot … we all lapse, and there will always be junk foods we have a weakness for. It seems to me that, if that’s all it is, that’s fine. It’s really just eating that stuff every day that you get into trouble.”
Tommy James and the Shondells' best-selling hit was covered in German as "Tränen der Liebe", by Henner Hoier, and in Italian, as "Soli si muore", by Michele e i Michelangeli . By what name is this song known in English?
When Marlene Dietrich left Germany for Hollywood in 1929, she took a prized musical instrument with her that she later played on film sets, at parties, and in USO shows. What was Marlene Dietrich's instrument?
A musical saw, also called a singing saw, is a hand saw used as a musical instrument. Capable of continuous glissando (portamento), the sound creates an ethereal tone, very similar to the theremin. The musical saw is classified as a plaque friction idiophone with direct friction (132.22) under the Hornbostel-Sachs system of musical instrument classification.
Sawists often use standard wood-cutting saws, although special musical saws are also made. As compared with wood-cutting saws, the blades of musical saws are generally wider, for range, and longer, for finer control. They do not have set or sharpened teeth, and may have grain running parallel to the back edge of the saw, rather than parallel to the teeth. Some musical saws are made with thinner metal, to increase flexibility, while others are made thicker, for a richer tone, longer sustain, and stronger harmonics.
German actress and singer Marlene Dietrich, who lived and worked in the United States for a long time, is probably the best-known musical saw player. When she studied the violin for one year in Weimar in her early twenties, her musical skills were already evident. Some years later she learned to play the musical saw while she was shooting the film Café Elektric in Vienna in 1927. Her colleague, the Bavarian actor and musician Igo Sym, taught her how to play. In the shooting breaks and at weekends both performed romantic duets, he at the piano and she at the musical saw.
Sym gave his saw to her as a farewell gift. The following words are engraved on the saw: "Now Suidy is gone / the sun d’ont [sic!] / shine… / Igo / Vienna 1927" She took the saw with her, when she left for Hollywood in 1929 and played there in the following years at film sets and Hollywood parties. When she participated in the United Service Organizations (USO) shows for the US troops in 1944, she also played on the saw. Some of these shows were broadcast on radio, so there exist two rare recordings of her saw playing, embedded in entertaining interviews.
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FWIW, my great-grandmother's 2nd husband was a retired vaudevillian who played the musical saw.
Jacqueline was first, and correct, with:
Musical saw
Mark. said:
Violin.
Billy in Cypress wrote:
Musical saw
Alan J answered:
A Musical Saw.
Randall replied:
Marlene Dietrich playing her violin . . .
mj responded:
Going on what I remember
Of Witness for the Prosecution, I'm going with concertina.
Dave wrote:
Accordion. Although I haven’t seen many of Dietrich’s films, for some reason accordion came to mind.
zorch said:
The musical saw.
Adam answered:
I figure either a Piano or a Saxaphone.
Mac Mac responded:
Saw
Deborah, the Master Gardener replied:
A cursory glance indicates Marlene Dietrich played the saw. So that’s my WAG. A saw.
Perhaps rain is moving back in — it’s windy and cloudy outside. It’s a good day to make soup.
Dave in Tucson wrote:
Marlene Dietrich played the accordion. Best known accordion playing while singing Lily Marlene. Song was very popular on both the Allied and German forces during World War II.
Rosemary in Columbus said:
Violin
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame answered:
Definitely had to look this one up! The answer is a musical saw.
DJ Useo answered:
I'm guessing it was her voice. We'll see.
Joe ( -- Vote Blue, No Matter Who -- ) replied:
It was a musical saw. That may sound funny to younger people, but it can be quite beautiful. I've played one myself.
Cal in Vermont responded:
The Musical Saw.
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CBS starts the night with a FRESH'Amazing Race', followed by another FRESH'Amazing Race', then a FRESH'SWAT'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Matthew McConaughey and Cedric the Entertainer.
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Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Dan Levy, Michael J. Fox, and Julia Michaels.
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President Barack Obama is doing the late-night rounds.
Hours after it was revealed that the 44th President of the United States would be appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Thursday, it emerged that he is also set to sit down with Stephen Colbert on The Late Show.
Obama will sit down with the CBS host next week to promote his new book A Promised Land.
It marks his latest appearance with Colbert; in 2016, Obama appeared on The Late Show in a mock interview setting, which was his last late-night interview as President. He also appeared with the comedian on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report.
CBS said that Obama will sit down with Colbert for an “extended” in-person interview conducted in Washington, DC.
Earlier this week, Moderna Therapeutics announced that their coronavirus vaccine was 94.5 percent effective after a large trial. The Massachusetts-based company became the second major pharmaceutical after Pfizer to report promising results for a potential vaccine to combat COVID-19. While Moderna's vaccine is major news because it could potentially stop the pandemic and put an end to needless suffering and death, it's also a big deal because Dolly Parton is partially responsible.
No, really. In April, the country icon made a $1 million donation to coronavirus vaccine research at Vanderbilt Medical Center. Over the summer, Vanderbilt researchers hosted part of Moderna's clinical trials testing 1,000 volunteers who took the experimental drug. This research was integral to Moderna being able to announce the efficacy of its vaccine, which is more effective than Pfizer's. In their official preliminary report, Moderna even thanked the "Dolly Parton COVID-19 Research Fund (Vanderbilt University Medical Center)." While Parton's donation was generous, Moderna did also receive $1 billion from the U.S. government for designing and testing the vaccine (as well as an additional $1.5 billion for 100 million doses of it).
Parton's charitable gift should be no surprise. If you listened to the excellent podcast Dolly Parton's America you'll know that host Jad Abumrad's father Naji Abumrad is a Vanderbilt University surgeon who befriended Parton after she was in a 2013 car accident. In 2017, she donated $1 million to the Vanderbilt University Children's Hospital in Nashville. These are just two examples of Parton's long history of philanthropy, which include her high school scholarship Dollywood Foundation, her international childhood book gifting organization Imagination Library, a 2016 telethon that raised nearly $9 million for victims of Tennessee wildfires, and countless other humanitarian ventures. While Parton didn't cure COVID-19, you can say that she helped researchers make a vaccine and is an unstoppable force for good.
Parton responded to the news on Twitter, writing, “When I donated the money to the Covid fund I just wanted it to do good and evidently, it is! Let’s just hope we can find a cure real soon.”
Conan O’Brien is getting out of the nightly game and has swapped his daily show for a weekly variety series on HBO Max. The move means that O’Brien will no longer front a late-night talk show for the first time in 28 years.
Conan, which has aired on TBS since 2010, will conclude at the end of its 10th season in June 2021, WarnerMedia said Tuesday. He has fronted more than 1,400 episodes of the show, which launched after the comedian’s acrimonious departure from The Tonight Show.
“In 1993 Johnny Carson gave me the best advice of my career: ‘As soon as possible, get to a streaming platform.’ I’m thrilled that I get to continue doing whatever the hell it is I do on HBO Max, and I look forward to a free subscription,” joked O’Brien.
Conan, which was re-tooled into a half-hour format in 2019, had previously been renewed through to 2022. The show’s Conan Without Borders travel specials featuring O’Brien traveling to other countries will continue to air on TBS, WarnerMedia said.
Team Coco, which will produce the new HBO Max weekly show, is already in business with the streamer, making four stand-up specials featuring comedians including Chris Redd and Moses Storm.
The Charlotte Kirk scandal has brought unwanted publicity — and in a couple of high-profile cases, professional calamity — to an assortment of Hollywood players. But a new entity has surfaced in documents recently filed in litigation arising from the Kirk saga: Dune Entertainment, the film finance company formerly run by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
An unknown party added the name “Dune Entertainment” by hand to an August 2017 settlement document listing people and companies protected from liability in any legal matter involving Kirk and the group of men who she claims sexually abused her. The settlement document includes references to multiple Mnuchin-associated entities: Dune Entertainment LLC, Dune Entertainment II LLC and Dune Entertainment III LLC. Kirk has made no allegations against Mnuchin or Dune Entertainment. Through a spokesperson, Mnuchin denies any knowledge of the settlement.
This marks the first mention of Mnuchin’s former business in the Kirk saga, which has resulted in the ouster of two studio heads: former Warner Bros. CEO Kevin Tsujihara and onetime NBCUniversal vice chairman Ron Meyer. Kirk has alleged in court documents that they were among a group of Hollywood executives who exploited her, taking advantage of her autism. The filings also reveal for the first time that Warner Bros. was listed as a party to be indemnified. WarnerMedia declined comment.
Kirk is now challenging the settlement agreement she had reached with the group. That agreement also precludes her and her former boyfriend, director Joshua Newton, from disparaging any of the listed parties. Portions of the settlement agreement were included in 298 pages of material filing recently submitted to the L.A. Superior Court on Newton’s behalf. Kirk appears to be the first person to test California’s #MeToo legislation signed into law in September 2018 that banned the use of nondisclosure agreements in sexual misconduct cases.
The settlement was designed to protect Tsujihara from liability, along with film financier Avi Lerner as well as Mnuchin’s former partners in RatPac-Dune Entertainment, Brett Ratner and James Packer. In court documents, Kirk alleges that Packer forced her to have sex with Tsujihara in a 2013 encounter at the Hotel Bel-Air. She further claims that Packer and Ratner set up that encounter to seal a $450 million film-financing deal (including such titles as Dunkirk and Wonder Woman) between Warner Bros. and RatPac-Dune Entertainment, which was then a newly formed partnership between Ratner and Packer’s company, RatPac Entertainment, and Mnuchin’s Dune Entertainment.
The White House’s latest holiday guidance on the coronavirus is to bring older family members to your Thanksgiving celebrations if you think it’s the last one they will be alive to enjoy.
“This kind of isolation is one of the unspoken tragedies of the elderly, who are now being told 'don’t see your family at Thanksgiving,’” Scott Atlas, a herd immunity advocate brought into the White House earlier this year by Donald Trump (R-Grifter).
“For many people, this is their final Thanksgiving believe it or not," he told Fox News on Monday night, even tough elderly people are among those most at risk to the respiratory disease.
"What are we doing here? … I think we have to have a policy, which I have been advocating, which is a whole person, [a] whole health policy,” he said vaguely. “It’s not about just stopping cases of COVID, we have to talk about damage of the policy itself."
Mr Atlas appeared to be echoing Mr Trump, who has said tactics to combat the virus cannot be worse than the virus itself. The outgoing president also has warned about individuals who are alone or stuck at home developing severe depression, substance abuse or other problems.
Nurse Leslie McKamey has gotten used to the 16-hour shifts, to skipping lunch, to the nightly ritual of throwing all her clothes in the laundry and showering as soon as she walks through the door to avoid potentially infecting her children. She’s even grown accustomed to triaging Covid patients, who often arrive at the emergency room so short of breath they struggle to describe their symptoms.
But despite the trauma and exhaustion of the last eight months, she was shocked when North Dakota’s governor, Doug Burgum, said last week that healthcare workers who test positive for coronavirus but do not display symptoms could still report to work. The order, which is in line with CDC guidance for mitigating staff shortages, would only allow asymptomatic health workers who test positive to work in Covid units, and treat patients who already have the virus.
But many feel the idea endangers the workers themselves and their colleagues. It comes as North Dakota faces one of the worst outbreaks of Covid-19 and grapples with healthcare staff shortages.
McKamey said Burgum’s order goes against everything she’s been taught as a nurse.
“If hospital administrators start forcing Covid-positive staff to go to work, it’s going to be very scary. We’re trained to do no harm, and asking Covid-positive, asymptomatic nurses to return to work is putting patients at risk. It’s putting fellow staff members at risk.”
One fascinating quirk of the Universe is that shapes and patterns can be found in hugely different contexts: the Golden Spiral can be seen in the human cochlea and the shape of a spiral galaxy; the fractal geometry of veins echoed in the branching of lightning.
In a bold new pilot study, an astrophysicist and a neurosurgeon have bumped it up a notch, using quantitative analysis to compare two of the most complex systems in nature: the neuronal network in the human brain and the cosmic network of galaxies in the Universe.
It's actually not that peculiar a comparison. You may have seen an image that occasionally gets shared around, showing a human neuron and a simulated galaxy cluster, side-by-side; the two look startlingly similar.
But there's a lot more to the human brain - and the Universe - than how it looks.
So astrophysicist Franco Vazza of the University of Bologna in Italy and neurosurgeon Alberto Feletti of the University of Verona in Italy have spent the last few years investigating to determine if the similarities are more than skin-deep.
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