What is Remix?
"Remixing is defined as the act of rearranging, combining, editorializing, and adding originals to create something entirely new."
(Jessell, 2003)
"Remix means to take cultural artifacts and combine and manipulate them into new kinds of creative blends."
(Knobel & Lankshear, 2008)
(Jessell, 2003)
"Remix means to take cultural artifacts and combine and manipulate them into new kinds of creative blends."
(Knobel & Lankshear, 2008)
A Marketing Perspective:
Why Remix?
“Performance has moved from being the only way to present music to become one among many options that also include recording, computer synthesis, sampling, remixing, and more."
(Thibeault, 2010)
"What really should grasp our attention is the way in which the latter [music education] unveils a deeply ingrained taboo, revealing how many artworks, in every realm that interests a number of people, are compounds: mixes that at least partly (and surprisingly often wholly) draw from communal sources. In respect to the cultural commons, the primary tasks of the music educator would be to help the students to find interesting ways to employ these commons and to find new approaches to them that could amount to individual expressions.”
(Vakeva, 2010)
(Thibeault, 2010)
"What really should grasp our attention is the way in which the latter [music education] unveils a deeply ingrained taboo, revealing how many artworks, in every realm that interests a number of people, are compounds: mixes that at least partly (and surprisingly often wholly) draw from communal sources. In respect to the cultural commons, the primary tasks of the music educator would be to help the students to find interesting ways to employ these commons and to find new approaches to them that could amount to individual expressions.”
(Vakeva, 2010)
A Cultural Perspective (watch 4:30-9:05)
Ethical Remix (Copyright)
"Copyright was not designed by the writers and artists asking for a means to earn a living for an economic basis for creativity. It was designed by the publishing industry to support a certain kind of distribution mechanism, one that is completely obsolete today.” (Fogel, 2006)