Austin Phimmasone
English 101, P.4
Mr. Drobny
9 November 2014
Exploration 2
Star Wars Theme Remix
For my Exploration, I remixed a song that I believed to be commonly known and easily recognizable. I took the Star Wars theme song and implemented a twist. I combined a distinguishable and classic tune from the beginning of our generation and modernized it. I used two sources, gave it reasoning, and composed it to fulfill its’ intent of creation.
Using the remixing tool, wubmachine.com, I generated the remix. I searched the song using soundcloud.com and attatched the song to the wubmachine mixer and added dubstep influences and altered a classic, orchestra dispositioned song into a new-age remix.
My intention of remixing this song was to modernize it and to revive and reignite old memories and connect them with today’s influences. I want people to hear it and think of their childhood and the media influences of then and think of now and the influences and what’s new and “in” today. I want to spark a connection between now and then and make others reflect on how things have changed and evolved.
The composition of the song explains itself, almost everyone knows about Star Wars and associates it to a time when they were young and interests were solely based on influences and idols such as the ones in star wars. It is recognizable as a song relating to our childhood then you notice that something is different about it and that it has influences of what seems to be the current musical hype and trend, dub-step. Dub-step and modern electronic beats come in and emphasize the changes that have occurred and where we were then and where we are now. This allows the listener to start off listening to a distant memory and then it transitions through time into the works of today and the evolution of music and media.
