New Media Alice -Jackson and Noah project

In looking at New Media in relation to Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, there is clearly a tradition within music in how it relates to Alice. Throughout many different genres and styles of music, Alice in Wonderland has been used as a blueprint for the expression of many different things for many different artists, including GWAR, Three 6 Mafia, The Beatles, and Pogo. Some artists use media examples of Alice to accompany their own or other people’s music, but in the end, there always is an aim at a desired effect. It would seem the criteria for each example would be that they have honed in on the experience of Carroll’s Wonderland, and furthermore ideas of being lost within it. All artists mentioned have taken the imagery and text of Alice in Wonderland to suit a new story. For example, the metal band GWAR uses the framework of a place like wonderland, a surreal world, for their narrative film “Phallus in Wonderland”. The Beatles had included Lewis Carroll on their album cover for Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club, in order to site an influence for the imagery their music was evoking. A more modern example, Pogo, an electronic musician who uses samples from kids films, utilizes the technology of youuutuuube.com and the Walt Disney film in order to create a experience of Wonderland through different forms of media. It is clear that Carroll’s idea of Wonderland is profound enough to impact those in different mediums to want to create an experience.