CREATIVITY

          The definition of creativity is the use of the imagination or original ideas, esp. in the production of an artistic work. New media definitely fosters creativity and we can see this in the article "The New Math of Mashups" by Sasha Frere-Jones. This article talks about DJ Reset who combines two types of songs that most people would not even think of trying to combine. In the past people did not have the technology to store or access files as easily as we can today. In today's world we have access to just about any song we want, and access to software which can edit and alter those songs. DJ Reset combined a song by Beck and Jay-Z/Pharell which kind of breaks through to a new style of music. This is the perfect example of computer music in a post-modern music world. Without new media, someone might have had the idea to create this type of music but they would not have had the tools to actually get it done.