(Source: CTheory)

11/26/2001

[…] I hear no great conceptual divide between various music machines. Whatever means there are available for recording acoustic phenomena or presenting sound, no matter what the source, making sound reproducible and thus variable, all phonographic technologies have the potential to deterritorialize sound and music. Maybe the greatest singular moment in nomadic use (= an act of capturing forces, making a new machinic assemblage of existing machinic formations) of phonographic machinery has been the emergence of hip-hop DJ’ing and the misuse of vinyl records, making a pair of turntables into a nomadic war machine. For a better order flagyl online part of the last century the record remained inactive, a storage capsule of time.

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(Source: Ctheory.net)

4/24/2003
Common talk deserves a walk, the situation’s changed/ everything said from now on has to be rearranged.

— T La Rock

The hiphop DJ is a meta-musician, an author, a programmer, an organizer of recorded fragments and a builder of databases whose talents are uniquely suited to survival and meaningful cultural production in our emerging era of total digital cross-reference.

— David Goldberg

At the dead center of the spiraling galaxy of hiphop culture is the turntable. This is where everything starts: on the grooved surface of a record spinning on the wheels of steel. All truth is here, all meaning — everything that is hiphop…Indeed, an act of pure hiphop devotion might be to let a record play from start to end on a turntable…

— DJ Dusk

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(Source: IDC List)

Thu Apr 13 19:13:28 EDT 2006

A Conversation between Manovich and Lichty
LM: We live in ‘remix’ culture. Are there limits to remixing? Can
anything be remixed with anything? Shall there be an ethics of remixing?

PL: Actually, I don’t think we live in a ‘remix’ culture, I liken it
more to pastiche or collage, or even object-oriented culture. To remix
is to take cultural elements and transform/repurpose them tot he point
where the source referent is obscured, idsappears, or its signifying
power is backgrounded to the point where the new ‘author’s intent
overrides. This is actually tightly linked to issues of intellectual
control/copyright…

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This is a Youtube video of man presenting a paper in a conference on Remix Culture.  Other videos on copyright are also found in this section of Youtube.

This is the very first entry to the blog, and what better way to start than with introducing my definition of Remix. Excerpt follows.

Generally speaking, remix culture can be defined as the global activity consisting of the creative and efficient exchange of information made possible by digital technologies that is supported by the practice of cut/copy and paste. The concept of Remix often referenced in popular culture derives from the model of music remixes which were produced around the late 1960s and early 1970s in New York City. […]

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