{"200091":{"#nid":"200091","#data":{"type":"news","title":"The Science of Music: Interview with a Hip-Hop Legend","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGrammy winning, hip-hop engineer Young Guru, who engineered ten of Jay-Z\u2019s eleven albums, returned to Georgia Tech on March 5, 2013, to discuss the history of hip-hop, the art of audio engineering, and its cultural implications. \u003Cstrong\u003ENettrice Gaskins\u003C\/strong\u003E, a Digital Media doctoral candidate in the \u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/strong\u003E, led an interview with Young Guru and moderated questions before his campus lecture.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI wanted to learn more about how Young Guru sees the future as a vehicle for creating new and innovative engineering techniques,\u201d Gaskins said. \u201cMusic, art, and literature are expressions of agency that empower people who are often missing in mainstream science fiction to envision a different future for themselves.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn response to Gaskins\u2019s questions, Young Guru explained how technical skills are gained through casual use of technologies and through networks of informal apprenticeships, where peers demonstrate to each other their techniques. In this intimate setting, Young Guru described the types of social interactions that take place based on sound energy and vibration.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring the interview, Gaskins played \u0022Run This Town\u0022 by Jay-Z featuring Kanye West and Rihanna and \u0022Renegade\u0022 by Jay-Z featuring Eminem. Young Guru deconstructed the first verse of each song line-by-line to demonstrate the importance of understanding the language when listening to hip-hop music.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cHip-hop production is at the intersection of creativity, innovation, and culture,\u201d Gaskins explained. \u201cI think that if we study the aspects of hip-hop production we will find keys to engage groups that have low participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe interview aired on radio station WREK 91.1 in March.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to giving a lecture on hip-hop history and culture, Young Guru has been involved in Georgia Tech\u2019s program EarSketch, a project co-run by Jason Freeman, associate professor in the School of Music, and \u003Cstrong\u003EBrian Magerko\u003C\/strong\u003E, assistant professor in the \u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/strong\u003E. This project engages students in computing principles through collaborative computational music composition and remixing. Young Guru has contributed thousands of loops and beats for the project.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGrammy winning, hip-hop engineer Young Guru, who engineered ten of Jay-Z\u2019s eleven albums, returned to Georgia Tech on March 5, 2013, to discuss the history of hip-hop, the art of audio engineering, and its cultural implications.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ENettrice Gaskins\u003C\/strong\u003E, a Digital Media doctoral candidate in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/strong\u003E, led an interview with Young Guru and moderated questions before his campus lecture.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27663","created_gmt":"2013-03-18 11:52:16","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:13:51","author":"Rebecca Rolfe","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-03-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-03-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"200101":{"id":"200101","type":"image","title":"Young Guru is interviewed by Nettrice Gaskins","body":null,"created":"1449179934","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:58:54","changed":"1475894853","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:47:33","alt":"Young Guru is interviewed by Nettrice Gaskins","file":{"fid":"196540","name":"youngguru2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/youngguru2_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/youngguru2_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":66280,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/youngguru2_0.jpg?itok=5Jfen0-m"}}},"media_ids":["200101"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/dm.lmc.gatech.edu\/phd-student-nettrice-gaskins-to-interview-hip-hop-engineer-young-guru\/","title":"Event announcement"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.533707526674323.1073741825.159012280810518\u0026type=1","title":"Interview photos"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"27621","name":"Nettrice Gaskins"},{"id":"59651","name":"Young Guru"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-1720\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}