Auto-Tune the News: “The only news you need has a bass line”
OverClocked Remix: “Founded in 1999, OverClocked ReMix is an organization dedicated to the appreciation, preservation, and interpretation of video game music. Its primary focus is www.ocremix.org, a website featuring hundreds of free fan arrangements, information on game music and composers, resources for aspiring artists, and a thriving community of video game music fans.”
Though Auto-Tune the News is devoted in particular to humor through remediation (repurposing of news presentation and of news content, as well as the prevalent usage of auto-tune in popular music) and OverClocked Remix attempts to archive video game music and foster its acceptance as a valid musical art form, their remediation seems to come from one thing in particular: personal enjoyment. Auto-Tune the News attempts to make people laugh through its very overt repurposing of content. OverClocked Remix allows video game music advocates and fans to express their appreciation through creative remediation (remixing), their respective repurposings deal directly with meeting the desires of their spectators–the desire to laugh, to enjoy good music, to find celebration in music we love. In neither case is it necessarily about remediating as a means of critical or theoretical interpretation, it’s not really about making a point. Remediation in everyday life seems to stem purely from want of pleasure.
[...] instead of trying to replicate the actual scenes from the original movie. As I considered in a previous post, remediation deals very heavily with the enjoyment of the audience–something I don’t [...]