At some point in the distant past - more than a decade ago, if memory serves - I was temporarily obsessed with the concept of overlapping songs; not mashups in the conventional sense, which are essentially remixes, but literally mixing two songs by different artists and playing them simultaneously from start to finish. 

It wasn't meant to sound pretty, of course - I've always been a fan of dissonance, texture, and "noise" - and what I was most interested in was the potential of songs to interact with each another as "texts," i.e. my goal was to give disparate songs an opportunity to carry on a conversation with one another. 

I make no claims to the listenability of these "crossover" pieces - some people can handle them, others find them chaotic and cognitively abrasive - but this was an important formative experience in my own development as a musician ("noisician" may be a better word for it,) when my aesthetic proclivities were perhaps an unrecognized indication of  what was later diagnosed as ADHD - in other words, I found the apparent confusion created by these experiments was rather soothing.

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