HW Creativity

New media fosters creativity in many ways specifically in allowing virtually anyone with a computer to created music. More than that people are able to sample old music and make mash-ups and remixes. In the New Yorker article, The New Math of Mashups, Sasha Frere-Jones writes about how normal people with a musical ear take songs and mash them up using technology. This in my opinion can often take the song from one level to a way better version of itself that otherwise wouldn't known.  In one cause Jones states Stoke was a better song than either one of the sources that it originated from. Nowadays new media allows for singers and musicians of all type to make covers to popular songs and post on soundcloud or youtube. This way they are available to the public and a lot of times these versions offer a variety of and have their own take on the original song which can allow for the same song to be heard over and over different ways.