I was looking at a friend's blog last night and I stumbled upon this video called Everything is a Remix. You can access Part One here and Part Two here. My friend stated that she would have loved to study the art of Remix in her undergrad and potentially wants to go to grad school to study this subject so I thought it would be great to share and to know that this subject has growing interest as more remixes are being made in music, art, fashion, politics, etc.
I find thinking of everything as a remix as a really cool concept as remix in this sense is a tool for connection and binds us to one another. Then again, with remix, it can become very difficult to be yourself and express opinions and ideas that perhaps have not been expressed before. This might be going a bit far with the whole idea of remix, but, if everything is a remix, would it be possible that your life is a remix as you may be experiencing the same things as other people have just at a different time? Or would living your life serve not so much as a remix but as a translation of the past into the present?
can you repost the links? They're not working for me even when I post stuff
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When we talk about remixed music we emphasis a linear relation or evolution of a composition’s components into a new generation of that composition. In the video that Jordan’s post links to, the narrator identifies compositional elements from various songs that Led Zeppelin copied (without crediting the original composers) and built into their own compositions. This practice definitely crosses the line into copyright infringement, but I believe it does not make it a remix.
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