Monday, September 20, 2010

"RiP! A Remix Manifesto" (For Digital, Remix/Mash-Up Culture and Copyright Alternatives)



Folks, I have added an optional documentary for the coming module because it happens to be streaming from Hulu.com right now from the National Film Board of Canada!  It is called RiP! A Remix Manifesto (http://ripremix.com/) and you can access it in streaming format at: http://www.hulu.com/watch/88782/rip-a-remix-manifesto http://films.nfb.ca/rip-a-remix-manifesto/.  You may find a great deal of inspiration for blog posts - agree, disagree, love or hate the music, and so on - from this movie alone. You will see a number of synergies with the reading you'll be doing this week, including the appearance of some of the authors! Update: Let's watch it from the National Film Board of Canada and eschew the commercial breaks from Hulu.






"Shining," a trailer for a feel-good family movie recut and mashed up from one you may be more familiar with - to dramatic effect


Also, if you've visited the blog in the last day or so, you'll see that I added a cosmetic upgrade in the form of my own visual mash-up logo.  Using keyword searches including searching for images in the public domain or under CC licensing, I found some images and threw them together to come up with a course logo.  Think you could do better?  I'm sure you could - it wouldn't take much.  If you have a few minutes and the interest, throw together something new and upload it to the blog!
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  1. Frederick JSeptember 20, 2010 at 2:04 PM

    Another documentary of sorts - a long-form mix surveying the history of mashups and audio manipulations: Raiding The 20th Century by DJ Food (aka Strictly Kev).

    http://www.ubu.com/sound/dj_food.html

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  2. Kathy ClairSeptember 20, 2010 at 2:32 PM

    I haven't watched the NFBC piece yet, but I loved the mashup for The Shining, a movie that scared the crap out of me! This really illustrated well what a mashup is!

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  3. DavidSeptember 22, 2010 at 10:08 AM

    An aside on remixes/mashups, the band Phoenix have released the stems from their album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix available for anyone to download and remix.

    http://www.prefixmag.com/news/phoenix-offer-download-stems-for-you-to-remix/44317/

    It's nice to see bands/artists seeing opportunities in our ever changing digital landscape, as opposed to the ossified record labels clinging to outmoded methods of distribution and defunct business models.

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  4. AnonymousSeptember 25, 2010 at 2:25 PM

    Did anyone else notice that the creator of “Remix Manifesto” cited all the Remix artists and free use content but NOT the copyrighted material in the documentary? I thought this was very apt.

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