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[edit] The Birth of Remix CultureInitially, a remix is generally used as an alternative version of a song, different from the original version. The concept of ‘remixing’ in music has become obviously increasingly widespread in the 1990s, with remixes becoming more and more prominent in pop, R&B, hiphop, techno, and other dance genres. The result is music that breaks social, class and demographic barriers. Popular singers such as Aretha Franklin have been involved in remix for several years with the support of major recording companies such as Motown, Scepter and Philles. Since this idea has become a common practice today, consequently, a new form of culture - Remix Culture has been created. It proceeds from the relatively straightforward recognition that a good song contains a multitude of performative possibilities. This phenomenon has also influenced in various areas, one of them is a crucial conceptual lead - in the vast cybersapce. Remixing focuses on creative and aesthetic approaches. Remixing - cutting up - editing - collaging (working with music, video, images and text). Variations of these aesthetic approaches manifest themselves again and again throughout the variety of media in this digital era. [edit] The Controversial IssueLawrence Lessig, a professor of law at Stanford University and a famous proponent of more-relaxed copyright regulations, contends that remixing is "how culture gets made" (see "The People Own Ideas!"). He writes, "It is almost impossible to imagine a culture thriving if its people are not free to engage in this kind of practice". Remix culture is a representation of free culture especially within cyberspace, in Lessig’s perspective, this is crucially linked to free software (see Free Software Foundation), as free software is the code that "carries promises: And of course, the copyright control. The network remix teams have been adapting the recent establishment of Creative Commons licenses to be their particular legal systems. Record labels, indie film studios and well over 10 million web pages are using CC licenses today. However, at O'Reilly Media, there's an interview with Lawrence Lessig on Remix Culture. Lessig has pointed out that although remix culture has emerged, “this is not a certain future”. Peer to peer is on the verge of being effectively outlawed. “Continuation of the current copyright regime would mean that vast quantities of creative content will be forever locked away from remix artists”. Lessig has also highlighted several battles for the remix future such as, the court battle on the legality of P2P; and another legal battle to free "orphan works" from their copyright gulag; and he also worries that new digital rights management (DRM) technologies will make remixes dependent on the permission of enlightened copyright owners. [edit] What People Think of ItThis paper claimed that remix culture is building up connections between learner and the others. Rather than deciding ahead what a learner needs to know and make it available, designers and instructors need to make available as much as possible of the whole rich web of practice, allowing the learner to make their own collaborating work. Hence, the weblog Remix culture is an excellent method to share ideas with the others. The diagram of Remix Culturein the website shows us how we see media and metadata flowing to and from different activities around media on the web. The corners of the matrix are meant to represent activities, not kinds of people. So, for example, a Flickr user might change her roles between creating and uploading her original photos, to enthusiastically tagging and commenting on others’ photos, to passively watching photos appear on her desktop or phone, to Photoshop to a Creative Commons-licensed photo that catches her eye and re-uploading it. The point of the diagram is simply to emphasize that each of these activities generates different kinds of metadata that potentially can be used to support the other activities. Dan Grossman loved remixing media very much. He starting with music tapes years age. Nowadays, by using the better software he can create much better remixes –particularly in video. Overall, Remix Culture is a rich, diverse outpouring of creativity based on creativity. The concept of remix is obviously changing the way the music, as well as other forms of media is produced. People come together and share their work, be inspired by each other’s work, and ultimately to create “remixes”. The practices lead to not only artistic changes, they also drive cultural change, and provide opportunities to advance educational objectives. |
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