On Channel-Surfing, Rabbit-Holes & Mash-Up Music

6) What are your thoughts on finding small like “baby universes” such as by “radio [surfing]” or “channel [surfing]” on YouTube, and how can they be experimented with? As you maybe aware from my music remixes that I’ve uploaded here on YouTube and elsewhere, I have a unique sense of taste in what constitutes “music to my ears.” I, personally, enjoy a genre that most would likely find “annoying” and “over-stimulating” - that is, “mash-up” music, or remixes combining two (or more) songs into a single track. In the tamest versions of this, one can sample the vocals from one popular song and the instrumental audio from another and then combine these in a “humorous” way. More complex mixes of this style are essentially the same as mixing instrumental audio with samples from a speech or movie-dialogue track, and can be manipulated the same ways, usually using simple repeating of phrases on beat. So this is “mash-up” as far as the average, modern YouTube historian is concerned. They are content to ignore and censor my personal favorite style of the “mash-up” genre: simply mixing one song with another at equal volume to one another, with no other edits. One can even play one song in one stereo-channel and the other in the other, but this is an “experimental” application of the “mash-up” remixing method, and so not considered appropriate by copyright censor-bots and youtube’s “community guidelines” moderators. It is perhaps reasoned it is “lazy” as far as remixing goes, but more importantly, it is simply considered “noise.” This, indeed, is what makes it appealing to me: it is a field of noise inside of which the brain struggles to seek for signal by assembling a new song combining those in the remix. The result is usually either “sludge,” where the original song is pitch-shifted down like “Chipmunks on 16 speed,” or else “sensory overload,” where two or more musical songs are combined to form one new track that can feature multiple different keys, tempos and beats all playing simultaneously to one another. Some call it “cacophony.” I call it “~GOD~”. I listen to my remixes while I drive and while I write - I am listening to them right now to help me concentrate as I compose these words. I taught myself audio-mixing exclusively to make this type of “mash-up” track, and not so that I could compose “new music” using digital instruments. I find its overstimulation comforting. I learned this a long time ago: first, by listening to the “dead channels” on the radio between the “live stations” (I used to imagine that, in this vague “in-between” realm on the radio-dial, I could pick up on cosmic radio-waves and the effects of solar flares); later, I played the radio and the television at the same time and found the cross-fading of information from one source to the other to make a pleasant mental diversion, whereby I could then focus my forebrain on other tasks - like writing or art. So, for me, this sort of “music” is genuinely inspirational, and I still have a strong belief that one can receive spontaneous new ideas from this method of sensory stimuli. The internet makes it ridiculously easy to perform such audial experiments to determine what suits one’s own tastes best in this genre, if any at all. If you want to hear what this sort of “music” sounds like, just press play on any two songs at the same time. I would not classify the “rabbit holes” this can lead one down as “baby universes,” exactly; though this genre does skirt the border between schizophrenia and logical, sane, rational realism. It is like the soundtrack for a vacation into madness, but I happen to enjoy it. Maybe someone listening now does too.