This week we talked about sound recording, editing, and (as if that weren’t enough!) intellectual property issues, copyright, and artist compensation online. We had some great discussions in class on the best ways to compensate artists and creators when we’re consuming content in bite-sized pieces.

For this week’s assignment, Addie and I played with Audacity and GarageBand to mashup Dangerous Muse’s new single, Give Me Danger. The whole thing started because I wanted to take the chorus refrain and loop it to use in something else, but the song was just too much fun, and turned into the basis for our entire project.

For the record, we used three public transportation announcements, a loop of the intro, a loop called Mo Better Luv (chosen purely for its name), and three versions of the song (the original, one with most of the vocals stripped out, and one pitch-shifted to make Mike Furey sound more like Kylie Minogue).

Here’s our mashup, which I’m calling Danger First.