Desktop MCing

"Desktop MCs work in the space of the desktop, choreographing content using multiple applications. For the desktop MC, new technologies allow for new combinatory forms of composition."


Spencer Schaffner
Assistant Professor, English/Center for Writing Studies
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
metaspencer.com / spencers@illinois.edu

References

dennisaliu. (2008). Apple Mac music video. YouTube. Retrieved November 12, 2009, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kxDxLAjkO8

Live. (2008). DJ Mike Relm - YouTube live. YouTube. Retrieved November 12, 2009, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jhu1f0xrDc

mrapplecomputer1. (2009). Mac music video - Gives You Hell. YouTube. Retrieved November 12, 2009, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Waxa5lnwHiU

Pavlus, J., & Mims, C. (2008). Episode 11: Immortal jellyfish, cancer-curing atom
smasher, bees can count to three. Grand unified weekly. Retrieved November 12, 2009, from http://grandunifiedweekly.com/episode-11/ Video-only url: http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid271557392?bctid=10725497001

RaceCard. (2008). The first Apple Mac music video. YouTube. Retrieved November 12, 2009, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6_SkEMklYE

romph. (2006). Animator vs animation. YouTube. Retrieved November 12, 2009, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo1d6ttbAq8

skul. (2006). Dj Killajewel. YouTube. Retrieved November 12, 2009, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpT9BYdmmE4&feature=related

TerryCPiano. (2008). Mac tip: How to backup your own DVDs (rip). YouTube. Retrieved November 12, 2009, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjDmlhpntEQ


Author's Note: APA documentation generally implies an unaltered original cited via a mechanism that maintains the integrity of the original text. This kind of citation does not speak to my capture/composition practices, as many of the "cited" texts have been sampled and altered more than cited. For instance, there is one video citation I have been unable to track down because it has been altered so much from the original that I can't recognize its source.

Also, I created the soundtrack in GarageBand.