Girl Talk, Working Memory and Creativity

Over at GQ, the excellent Paul Tough* profiles Gregg Gillis, the madcap mixer behind Girl Talk. For those of you who aren't cool enough to know - and I'm only cool enough because my younger sister is cool enough - Girl Talk is a mash-up artist par excellence. He's taken the concept of sampling - the act of borrowing a splice of a song - to its logical extreme, so that his own songs are nothing but a collage of different snippets. Here's Tough dissecting the ingredients of a recent Girl Talk t...