Digital Sound and Remix:MESH Lecture

What are the primary concepts involved in Remix and MESH = Mixing, editing, sampling and harvesting, which describes the general process that media artists use to compose media.

Projects

 * http://ccmixter.org/
 * A Great "database"  if  you will of  all different  sound  and  other  related  projects, (many of  which  are  online  collaborations, which  is  very relevant to this class, no?) . Run by  this  dude Jason, who plays  in an amazing   band, called Physics. Also tons of  worthwile  literature on this site as well.
 * Similar sister site  made by the  same  dude. Tons of  free experimental  audio and sound to  download...Everyone should peep it out...
 * Similar sister site  made by the  same  dude. Tons of  free experimental  audio and sound to  download...Everyone should peep it out...

History
"With the advent of easily editable magnetic tape in the 1940s and 1950s, such alterations became more common. In those decades the experimental genre of musique concrète used tape loops of music and environmental sounds to create sound compositions that were the forerunners of electronic music." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remix) The basic history of the audio-based remix is that it began with musique concrete and Jamaican DJs like Ruddy Redwood, King Tubby and Scientist, and Lee "Scratch" Perry making 4-track mixes of instrumental tracks through sound systems in the 1950s and 1960s.

"The importance of this cannot be overstated: in an era of information overload, the art of remixing and sampling as practiced by hiphop DJs and producers points to ways of working with information on higher levels of organization, pulling together the efforts of others into a multilayered multireferential whole which is much more than the sum of its parts."


 * Old school music mixes: http://slate.msn.com/id/2068368
 * Remix History
 * History of Jamaican Dub Music

Artists

 * Negativland
 * John Oswald and Plunderphonics
 * Canibus (hip hop Lyricist), does not rap about things related to his name.
 * Kanye West (is big on sampling)
 * Public Enemy
 * Dr. Dre
 * Tribes of Neurot
 * El-P
 * Peanut Butter  Wolf
 * MFDoom (Metalfingers)
 * Steve Reich
 * Tony Oursler and Paul McCarthy  Music Collaborations   <amazing!!!!
 * Tego Calderon
 * Al Green
 * Nas
 * 
 * Kid 606
 * Matmos
 * Prince Paul
 * Osborn, Ed

Questions

 * What is a remix?


 * When did remixing begin?


 * How does remix relate to past art history traditions?


 * What is the difference between song remixes and what we will be learning about remix?

Glossary

 * Remix
 * Wikipedia: "A remix is an alternate mix of a song different from the original version, made using the techniques of audio editing. It may incorporate elements of dance music. It is often used to create an upbeat version of a song for playing by disc jockeys in nightclubs."
 * Manovich: 3 different kinds of remix
 * post-modernism - the remixing of previous cultural contents and forms within a given media or cultural form (architecture, music, fashion) (older modernist tradition tried to erase the past, not remix it)
 * national cultural traditions, characters, and sensibilities intermingling both between themselves and als interacting with a new global international style (a remix of globalization)
 * New Media - the remix between the interfaces of various cultural forms and the new software techniques -- the remix between culture and computers.
 * MESH
 * Mixing - the act of combining
 * Editing - the act of adding, deleting, and, or assembling
 * Sampling - that act of taking a piece of a whole (which represents that whole)
 * Harvesting - the act of gathering a crop
 * Sound for Film
 * Optical Sound Negative
 * Magnetic
 * Phonetic
 * Articulatory Phonetics
 * Acoustic Phonetics
 * Auditory Phonetics


 * Modernism

1.     a. Modern thought, character, or practice. b. Sympathy with or conformity to modern ideas, practices, or standards 2. A peculiarity of usage or style, as of a word or phrase, that is characteristic of modern times. 3. Often Modernism The deliberate departure from tradition and the use of innovative forms of expression that distinguish many styles in the arts and literature of the 20th century. 4. Often Modernism A Roman Catholic movement, officially condemned in 1907, that attempted to examine traditional belief according to contemporary philosophy, criticism, and historiography


 * Post Modernism

1. Of or relating to art, architecture, or literature that reacts against earlier modernist principles, as by reintroducing traditional or classical elements of style or by carrying modernist styles or practices to extremes: “It [a roadhouse]is so architecturally interesting... with its postmodern wooden booths and sculptural clock” (Ruth Reichl).