Type: Interactive Performance
Topic(s): Arts
Tags: copyright sampling music
With credits including inventing a music genre (the mashup) and a cease-and-desist from CBS, The ECC's party-science Thimbletron performance is not to be missed.
Godfathers of Mashup? Plunderphonics? Bastard Pop? Plagiarhythm? Collage? Many of those terms suggest a boring laptop show coming up, and yet nothing could be further from the truth. For nearly 20 years, The Evolution Control Committee has been combining new technology with old-fashioned showmanship to produce internationally acclaimed performances. Long before the sampler and computers made it easy, The ECC was infringing copyright laws the hard way.
