Jon Nelson (artist)
For the guitarist for Suicidal Tendencies, see Jon Nelson (guitarist).
Jon Nelson is a sound collage artist and a radio show host for Some Assembly Required. He "mashes music and found sound — from old movies, laugh tracks, the news — to make what he calls the audio dreamscape of the media age."[1] Jon Nelson has been championing the genre of mashup music for more than 10 years;[2] Some Assembly Required is now syndicated throughout the United States and Canada.[3] 262 episodes were produced from 1999 to 2011.[4]
Reviews and articles
- The Art of Mashups[1] By Tom Asbrook, On Point, February 5, 2009
- Jon Nelson of Escape Mechanism[5] 23007 by Katya Tylevich A.V. Club Twin Cities, January 28, 2009
- Some Assembly Required: Mash-Up Pioneer Dreams in Soundbites[6] By Elizabeth Held, Wired Magazine, December 22, 2008
- Escape Mechanism promotes recycling![7] by Max Ross, Secrets of the City, September 16, 2008
- Click, shriek, boom! Sonic collage artist Escape Mechanism cuts and pastes while aural trickster Lost in Translation slashes and burns by Michaelangelo MatosCity Pages (Volume 20 - Issue 949 - February 10, 1999)
Discography
- Escape Mechanism (Emphasis Added) (2008)[7][8][9]
- Cast of Thousands with Escape Mechanism Self Titled (2004)[10]
- Escape Mechanism, Steev Hise, The Tape-beatles, Wobbly Minneapolis Summit (2002)[11]
- Escape Mechanism Self Titled (1998)[12]
References
- 1 2 "The Art of Music Mashups | On Point with Tom Ashbrook". Onpointradio.org. 2009-02-05. Retrieved 2014-02-13.
- ↑ Archived March 21, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "Syndication". Some Assembly Required. Retrieved 2014-02-13.
- ↑ "Playlists". Some Assembly Required. Retrieved 2014-02-13.
- ↑
- ↑ Held, Elizabeth (2013-03-28). "Some Assembly Required: Mash-Up Pioneer Dreams in Soundbites". Wired.com. Retrieved 2014-02-13.
- 1 2 Archived July 16, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "Escape Mechanism". Escape Mechanism. Retrieved 2014-02-13.
- ↑ Held, Elizabeth (2009-01-20). "Wired Mentions the ECC in January issue". Evolution-control.com. Retrieved 2014-02-13.
- ↑ "Escape Mechanism". Escape Mechanism. Retrieved 2014-02-13.
- ↑ "Escape Mechanism". Escape Mechanism. Retrieved 2014-02-13.
- ↑ "Escape Mechanism". Escape Mechanism. 1999-02-10. Retrieved 2014-02-13.
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