Kutiman, an Israeli musician and producer, cut together a bunch of “bedroom musician” videos from You Tube for a project he’s calling Thru YOU.  It is strikingly complete and mature for the internet mash-up meme, and it avoids coming across as a mere gimmick or novelty.  He’s blowin up!  Check out this first video and then check out the rest here.

From a more Dharmic perspective …
I like to think of these videos as showing the process in which the idea of “self” might be developed.  If I were one of Kutiman’s songs and I believed that I had a self, I might think that I existed independently of the intention of the musicians who created the original source videos.  I would have a sense of organic unity and a consciousness that felt whole and complete, some might use the phrase “greater than the sum of its parts” to describe me.
But since we are not one of Kutiman’s songs we can clearly see the interdependent elements that went in to creating his finished songs (they were created “ThruYOU”).  The ability to go and see the original videos on their own allows us to see the original intention of the “bedroom musicians” much more clearly than we can in the mash-up version.   And it is clear that their intentions had nothing to do with Kutiman, or each other, they were just people making nice sounds!
And ThruYOU makes it so easy to access the source videos of “nice sounds” (click the ‘credits’ button during one of the videos).   The research and the finished piece are both right there, simultaneously, in a single, fluid interface, so users can instantaneously witness the development of a finished “song” (it’s even quicker than watching VH1’s “Behind the Music”).
The same technology is allowing us a similarly user friendly interface to explore our own notions of “self”. We have the ability to externalize and share our inner mind with such ease, and the process of constructing our identities on the internet is so transparent (“would you like to upload your profile image from your computer or link it from a URL?”).  Which leaves me with a question at the end of this:
If something that feels “greater than the sum of it’s parts” it is called “Great Art”,  so is the act of calling it “Great Art” also upholding the idea of “Self”?  Does “bad” art dismantle the self?  And is ThruYOU a rediculously amazing synthesis of “Great” and “bad” art?