Gregg Gillis was born October 26, 1981 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is better known by his stage name Girl Talk. Gillis began making music while studying biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He has released four CDs on the Illegal Art record and EPs on 333 and 12 Apostles record labels. Each of his songs are built on recognizable samples of recent hit singles, constructed into an entirely new piece. He specializes in mash up style mixes, in which he often uses a dozen or more samples from different songs to create a new song. In 2007, Gillis recieved a Wired magazine Rave Award and in December 2008, Feed The Animals was number four on Time Magazine's Top 10 Albums of 2008. Rolling Stone magazine gave Feed The animals four stars and ranked the album 24th on their Top 50 albums of 2008. Blender magazine rated Feed the Animals as the second best recording/album of 2008. In school, Gillis focused on tissue engineering. Gillis is also known as being a great performer. At many of his shows he plays on a platform and lets the audience surround him. He later worked as an engineer, but quit in May 2007 to focus solely on music. Throughout eight years of creating sample-based music, Gillis has focused on the art of sampling and developing new tracks that have their own character, and surpass the original elements.
This video will give you an idea of what he does.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KykbPtRb0K4
yo c-pom, I think Girl Talk was a great example of creativity to talk about on the blog. Although some people would argue against this being creative, I think that it is creative. He takes samples and mixes them with other beats that no one else has done before. Although this idea is not new, the individual sounds he makes are technically novel. While I am not sure that I can argue if it is "appropriate" or not, I would still argue in his favor regarding creativity and it sounds good!
ReplyDeleteI can see why you think it is not appropriate. I guess is just a matter of opinion. Some people may think that what he does is just put music together and anyone can do that. Others may really enjoy what he does and appreciate it as an art form. I think what he does is very creative and takes a lot of skill.
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