Thoughts on Remix

== Remix is of the many creative processes, which come in conflict with understood (under IPR) notions of authorship and originality.
== One of the ways to use existing cultural materials and forms to create new
and distinct ones – that carry echoes of the ‘original’
== One of the many processes that allow a user to be more than  a mere
recipient of cultural material, that allow a user to be a creative producer.
== A process that makes way for a cultural material to have another life -
perhaps a more challenging and perhaps a heretical one.
== Remix is the coming together of two/ or more independent materials or forms.
== Remix can be a conscious media practice.
== Remix is an attitude to materials.

Remix is NOT:

- pastiche
- re- cycling
- remodeling
- refashioning
- jugaad
- recension
- version
- copy
- duplicate
- intextuality
- repurposing
- remake

It is, perhaps a combination of some/all of the above.

Below are some questions that could be explored/ thought about:

Is remix always a subversive process – falling in the grey zone – between legalities?

Is Re- mixing three sets of music pieces after taken author permissions and paying royalties, ‘remix’?

Do the possibilities of the process of remixing outweigh its processual charm?

Can we define remix? Can we fix the boundaries of this form and make
rules for entry/ exit?  Or is remix  a process that allows itself to be
constantly reinvented, remodeled, refashioned?

What are the terms of the relationship between remix and technology?

I think we all know the answer to this. ‘Remix’ in the years when a DJ would
scratch an LP record and create live remix, was different from a time and
process when new beats could be added analogously to older music tracks,
which again was different from a time and process, when film clips could be
cut easily using non professional software to create another, perhaps
subversive audio- video material.

So,  I guess my question would be how necessary is the ’scratch’ in remix?

And lastly,  As media practitioners, how far can we push the boundaries of the form of remix?

Iram