John Oswald said he likes my Stevie Wonder/Laurie Anderson mashup

I got an unexpected email today from the legendary composer/remixer John Oswald, whose Plunderphonics project was a major inspiration for me. (For example, check out “Dab,” “Power,” and the terrifying “Pretender.”) He told me that in the course of researching the connection between the second movement of Dvořák’s Piano Quintet No. 2 and the haunting jazz standard “Nature Boy,” he came across my mashup of “O Superman” by Laurie Anderson and “Superstition” by Stevie Wonder, and that he dug it.

So, that is awesome.

I sent him my remix of the Grateful Dead’s “Dark Star,” which includes an excerpt of “Clouds Cast” from Oswald’s mind-boggling Grayfolded album. I hope he likes it.

The internet can be a miserable place, but sometimes you get to meet your creative heroes!