mash up music @ dana centre

it's funny how time trickles when you look forward to something, like in my case, going home a week later. it's irritating. i mean i do have things to do here but i just want to get home. growls...
oh, yesterday was cool. after mucking around in the gym for a while, i went to dana centre @ south kensington for a talk on mash up music. i can so tell you that i suck at navigation cos i had such a terrible time searching for the place when it was just right next to the freaking natural history museum!!! i dropped off at gloucester road and then consulted the map at the bus station like twice but still ended up taking the wrong end of the street, which resulted in me walking all the way to earl's court, only to turn back after i asked a lady out of desperation, and i ran all the way back to square one and walked up the other end of the street, not without getting confused by the order the buildings along the street was numbered. so, an originally supposed 5 minute walk turned into a half hour nightmarish marathon. but yes, i finally got there, with much panting and sweating.
so, back to the talk, i decided to be arty and attend a talk on the genre of music that is completely foreign to me - mash up music, which is basically mashing up old/new tracks of music, videos, media and matching their beats such that it became a new funky form of music! wow! we had 3 speakers who talked about their jobs as mash up artists and the coolest part was when they split us up into three groups and we had to discuss in our groups about money making methods from this new 'industry'. I was on the verge of bailing out when we had to separate into groups to discuss but thought since i was here, i might as well go through the entire event and it was a good experience seeing people present and speak. obviously i couldn't contribute much cos i knew little of the subject. they don't judge you if you don't speak, they don't make you feel small if you just sat there and listened; it was all very spontaneous and comfortable. it was the first time in a group i didn't feel like i had to make a noise to be heard. at the end of the event, the 3 speakers did a short gig and that, was my virginal experience of listening to mash up.