Remix

Since the beginnings of recored sound in the late 19th century, certain people have enjoyed the ability to rearrange the normal listening experience with technology. John Von Seggern of the ethnomusicology department at the University of California, Riverside, says that the remix "is a major conceptual leap: making music on a meta-structural level, drawing together and making sense of a much larger body of information by threading a continuous narrative through it. We depend on what has come before. If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in the paper on which your poem is printed. Without a cloud there will be no water; without water, the trees cannot grow; and without trees, you cannot make paper. So the cloud is in there. The existence of this page is dependent on the existence of a cloud. The existence of a remix is dependent upon the existence of the music that it is mixed from. And all music is a remix, be it conscious or subconscious, whether or not we wish to admit it. But we should embrace the remix rather than fear it. The remix opens up countless artistic opportunities. If the lines holding the past and present together are ruptured, then the future will break through.