Remix Culture

This weeks topic was about exploring music sampling with remixing and file sharing in the rise of produsage cultural practice.

“Produsage is based on the collaborative engagement of(ideally, large) communities of participants in a shared project. The community engages in a continuous peer review of all participants’ contributions.” Brunz, A (2010)

This is a comment on open participation in a project and is relevant to the ideas of Read only and Read/Write cultures.
In read only communities the individuals have no say in the activity they can only consume, but in read/write communities a real sense of engagement is achieved allowing the audience to connect with the material and create something new from it.

This reminded me of an app i stumbled upon sometime last week Incredibox.com, with this website  you can pick from around 4 songs and click different beats, voice, special effect sounds and it creates something that goes together no matter what.
http://www.incredibox.com/mix/570BB141610D3-V3

That is my one, I went through multiple sounds to see what different remixes I could come up with. Everyone should have a test drive of that app for fun and to see what you can create. Anyways this community would be a read / write one because they makers supply a large audience with the free song and ability to create something new from that and also the capacity to join the following and post your own remix to be viewed by those millions.

Another remixing example is these two youtubers I watch, they remix children’s songs into trap style music. These are related but i also thought they were catchy so go have a look.

Attic Stein: Arthur Remix

RemixManiacs: Barney remix

 

Sources:
Bruns, Axel (2010) Distributed Creativity: Filesharing and Produsage, http://snurb.info/files/2010/Distributed%20Creativity%20-%20Filesharing%20and%20Produsage.pdf