If you take a look at the recently-published list of Time Magazine’s “50 Best Inventions of 2009″, you will find many technologically significant inventions — NASA’s missles, a racing car made entirely out of food, and even a human-powered vending machine. Among these inventions, a surprising (and deserved) addition has appeared: the YouTube remix projects of Israeli musician & composer Kutiman as seen in his prodigious website, ThruYOU. ThruYOU, completed in just two months time, is a sweeping work of musical “found art”, deftly and intelligently remixed into miniature funk masterpieces. Ophir Kutiel, better known to the world as Kutiman, spent weeks searching through YouTube videos of dozens of musicians, primarily amateurs, to find patches of instrumentation and vocals from which he would invent his virtual funk quilt.
While this description may seem at first pedestrian, the resulting videos and songs are anything but ordinary. Bearing little resemblance to the original pieces from which they were culled, Kutiman used his love of funk, jazz and soul music to imbue each of the songs with it’s own life. ThruYOU takes the concept of sampling to another level, creating a recognizable touchstone which changes the game for all time.
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