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...people don't have an ear like Pittsburgh native Gregg Gillis, better known as the one-man band, Girl Talk. The musical misfit and laptop magician broke into the mainstream with his 2006 hit album Night Ripper, whose 16 tracks sampled more than 150 artists, from Abba to 2 Live Crew to Aerosmith. His latest album, Feed the Animals, is already available online; the CD is out November 3rd. TIME spoke with Gillis about the art (and science) of sampling and what it's like to create a house party on stage...
...people and the interactivity become the visuals. It's loosely a populist sort of idea; having a stage full of people is a lot more valuable than having a million dollars worth of lights. For people who want to come up and see me do a live collage on the laptop, they have visuals presented for them made by everyone there in attendance. And for people who want to party, then they can kind of join in on the celebration...
Tell me about the name "Girl Talk." I was coming from the more avant garde world and when I chose it, I clearly wasn't trying to figure out a game plan for a 10-year project that I would eventually live off of. Back then, I was almost using pop music as an act of rebellion, especially being part of the experimental-music community. I thought a lot of those people were recycling a lot of ideas, like playing noise and feedback and having some name like X_R2. So I kind of picked the name Girl Talk because...
...into supervised housing that is more appropriate for college students,” said Tim Burke, a member of BC’s community task force. “I think they’ve gained a lot of community favorability lately, especially those families who live near houses occupied by students...
...Nemeth, who is a second-year MBA student. “So I think having the opportunity to actually know the names of their choices will motivate more people to go out to the polls.”The current voting system, Nemeth added, caters to locals who have lived in the same place for a long time—often owning a house and having children in the local public school—rather than to people whose roots don’t go quite so deep.According to Nemeth, the potential for confusion is increased by the complexities...