This subject introduces students to the concepts and practices of remix: of recombining existing material to make something new. 

While such practices are a highly popular form of cultural production, these practices are also highly contested, controversial and sometimes illegal. Thats is why this blog is titled unmixable - because laws prevent a great deal of content from being freely accessed or adapted.

While discussing the legal and ethical implications of remixing, this subject also focuses on the creative potential of remix from the point of view of both aesthetics and cultural engagement. 

Focusing particularly on the theory and practice of editing and montage, the subject builds on and develops to an intermediate level the conceptual knowledge and creative technical skills gained in Making Networked Culture.

Wax Audio Stayin in Black The Bee Gees AC DC Mashup HD

Tutorial canceled

There will be no remix tutorial on Thursday morning 8th October at 9am.

At this stage you should be working on your final projects.

I will be in the lab from 12 if you want to discuss your project.

Final Works

Remember - a huge part of remix and creative culture is emulation. So if you can't find a great idea - use someone else's. Remix culture recognises everything as a remix, therefore, although using someone else's content will cause legal issues, using someone else's idea usually entirely valid.

Also, make sure your blogs are up-to-dates with lots of posts as this will make up the final 20% of your assessment.

Final Blog Submission

Choose what you believe to be your five best posts through the semester.

This should show some reflection on the key themes of this subject:

• Aesthetics of remixing
• The legal and ethical issues
• Your own practice in remixing
• Communities of remix
• The history of the form
• Global, political and cultural implications
• Remix tools and their affordances

This assignment will be graded on:

• The clarity of your posts. 
• The regularity of your posts. 
• Additional ideas and content uncovered through the readings and external research. 
• Your understanding of the content of the subject.

This assignment is due on Friday 16 October and amounts to 20% of your final grade.

Feedback Assignment

If you have not already, can you please send me your feedback on the students I assigned you so I can send you all your results.

Enjoy the break!

Final Remix Project

For this project you should draw on all the skills and information you have attained in this course.

You must make a film of between 2 and 3 minutes length. It can be a piece of video art or sound art, a music clip for your own music, or a short narrative film. You can use whatever clips you like but it must be able to survive copyright interrogation.

This means is that if aspects of the clip are recognisable through:

Visual recognition - if someone can recognise similarities with existing imagery,
Sound recognition - if someone can recognise similarities with existing music,
Digital recognition - recognition software such as Tunatic, Soundhound or Shazam,

then you need to write a statement defending your clip as your own creative work. This should not only be a personal statement but a legal position, one that refers to existing copyright law and cases.

Obviously, the more original and affected your clip is, the less you will have to write to defend it.

You should also discuss how you made the clip - what tools you used and what your ideas and concepts were. Include images, sounds, screen grabs and links where appropriate.

You have a lot of personal freedom for expression in this project, so make something that you feel proud to keep in your folio of work for years to come.

FIND NEW AESTHETICS

http://www.youtubemultiplier.com/55f105b10863c-remixed-remixed-remixed.php

Peer feedback

Write a paragraph or two giving feedback to two fellow students. I will assign these students to you, but please feel free to review other students too.

Here is a template for the kind of feedback I want you to give:

Feedback:

Here’s what you did that I liked:

This is why:

Here’s what you did that I didn’t like:

This is why:

Feed-forward:

Here is what I think you should try doing next time:

Here is some stuff that you might be interested in checking out:

Key terms from REMIX from the Situationists International.

" all your dissent are belogn to us".

Recuperation, in the sociological sense, is the process by which politically radical ideas and images are twisted, co-opted, absorbed, defused, incorporated, annexed and commodified within media culture and bourgeois society, and thus become interpreted through a neutralized, innocuous or more socially conventional perspective. More broadly, it may refer to the cultural appropriation of any subversive works or ideas by mainstream culture. It is the opposite of détournement, in which images and other cultural artifacts are appropriated from mainstream sources and repurposed with radical intentions.
Wikipedia

Détournement is a technique developed in the 1950s by the Letterist International, and consist in "turning expressions of the capitalist system against itself," like turning slogans and logos against the advertisers or the political status quo. Détournement was prominently used to set up subversive political pranks, an influential tactic called situationist prank that was reprised by the punk movement in the late 1970s and inspired the culture jamming movement in the late 1980s.
Wikipedia

Video on How-To-Edit

https://vimeo.com/136493409​

Password: PREM2015

IMPORTANT - This video instructs how to use Premiere Elements which is on the computers in the labs. However, there are many editing programs - some are free, and all follow the same interface format shown below. If you have some experience editing, perhaps try another program to see how your skills can shift between programs.

 

This image was created in Mockingbird.

Here are a list of editing programs - some which may already be on your computer - or be freely downloadable.

• iMovie
  iMovie comes free with new Macs. iMovie offers many options for editing video and audio, and adding photos, music and narration to your movies.
• Movie Maker
  Movie Maker is Window's free video editing software, which comes installed on new PCs. Use the program to create and share high-quality movies.
• YouTube
  YouTube's video editor is an easy, free way to trim clips or remix videos. The editing power is limited, though, and you'll never get an uncompressed version of the final product.
• Pinnacle Spin
  Video Spin, for PCs, is free video editing software from Pinnacle. Video Spin is specifically designed to take the complexity out of video editing, but it still includes tools, transitions and effects.
• Virtual Dub
  Virtual Dub offers simple editing capabilities. You can't get too creative with the software, but you can use it to make simple, clean edits in your video footage. Virtual Dub works with PCs only.
• Wax
  Wax is a bit dated-circa 2004-and the interface looks ancient, but the software comes with a very helpful guide and allows for a lot of creativity.
• Zwei-Stein
  This free editing software works with Macs, PCs and and Linux systems. It's easy to download, with a colorful, sparse interface.
• Jahshaka
  "Powering the New Hollywood," Jahshaka is a free, open source video editing software, that will give you powerful editing capabilities.
• HyperEngine-AV
  This is a popular free software for Macs. The "trackless" editing system makes it easy to combine video, audio and photos.
• Free Online Editing Software
  Besides YouTube, there are several other web applications that provide free video editing online. These services are great for re-editing and re-mixing web videos, and some even offer to produce DVDs of your edited videos.

These recommendations all come from desktopabout.com

Sound Editing

Learn how to use Audacity 101(1)


Loop Sampling Examples 

Free Drum Loops

Wall of Sound Example:

PaulStretch Example

Tom Waits/Cookie Monster mashup - God's Away On Business

Huw Parkinson

Tutorial One - getting started

As well as the theoretical and conceptual sides of this course - you will be expected to create your own remixes. To start out on this journey of creation and learning digital tools, work through the tools on the tool page.

The first thing you will need to do is to set up a blog.

Once you have done that, send me the URL, your full real name and the name you want to be listed as. These will be posted in the Students page of this blog.

Write a post on the lecture and a post on this tutorial. Between now and next week, write a post on Post-modernism. Look online - look in the library - what is it?

Here are some other technical tools of creation you can begin looking at:

Learn the basics of Photoshop in under 25 minutes.

Learning Audacity Georgian Style.

What are the new laws regarding downloading?

What are the new penalties for downloading:

Beware: Hollywood Is Coming After You

Final Lecture

For this, your final lecture, I want you to go back through the readings and READ any two that you have not already read. You should then write blog posts on these. I say this as many of you need to be blogging more. You need to submit five substantial blog posts by the end of next week.

Ill be in the lecture if you need any details.
Cheers

Todays tutorial

Todays tutorial is cancelled due to illness.
Please submit your work online and I will see you next week!
Hugh

Len Lye - "Kaleidoscope" + "A Colour Box" + "Colour Flight" 1935 - 1937

Artistic Responses | Daniel Crooks - 2004 - 2012

TIME SLICE IN PROCESSING

Ryoji Ikeda: Test Pattern 

Rechenzentrum - IBM

http://www.visomat.com

TIME STRETCH

Speed up and slow down tracks with Paulstretch (windows and Linux only).
Here are some basics to step you though the program.

Check out some examples:

Lady Gaga - Alejandro 800% Slower

The Beatles Strawberry Fields Forever 800% Slower

Justin Bieber 800% Slower

Sigur Ros Svefn-g-englar sped up 800%

Sigur Ros Svefn-g-englar normal speed