It’s interesting to see the changing role of technology in live performance. A few months back, my wife and I saw Jonathan Coulton with his Zen Drum triggering loops in order to “perform” his song “Mr. Fancy Pants”. A couple of weeks ago, this video appeared on Youtube, following Coulton’s UK tour and documents the Zen Drum’s demise and subsequent replacement by the IPhone.

Is this the same quality of creation? I know it’s making something new from prior material; it happens in visual arts all the time. In music, we used to call it “lifting a melody” and the lawyers would get all excited, but it’s so commonplace in this age that no one seems to care.
I’m getting the same feeling I get when I watch the work of DVDJ Unique: -question= is it art?