Thursday, April 17, 2008

Negativland



Negativland is a experimental music and sound collage band from around the San Fransisco area. The experimental music is based on most of the electronic and computer-altered beats that they produce by themselves. Along with this, they use found footage to create a collage of a certain topic or person of interest. This found footage is usually something that the subject in question wouldn't want anyone to see. This creates a much more welcome response from audiences and can only be given the cold shoulder by those whom they are about. After listening to some of their work and its content, I can say that it seems to me that the only reason why they make their music how they do is to entertain. Purely to entertain. The content that they use usually shows a bad side in one way or another to a good person and it is usually all in good fun. They get the material they use, put some beats to it, practice a bit then they have their mock up of found footage collages. Along with this, they also put their own visual effects in their videos, which are clearly fake; and lyrics, which compliment the predominant messages from the other people that they mock.

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