Remix, Appropriation, Quotation, Montage

-“Remixing” originally had a precise and a narrow meaning limited to music.
-Today it refers to any reworking of already existing cultural work.

-Remixing is accepted in the music industry, while in other cultural areas (film, visual art, photography, design, etc.), it's seen as violating a copyright or stealing.

-One term that is sometimes used to talk about these practices in non-music areas is “Appropriation.”
-"Appropriation" - often refers to the use of borrowed elements in the creation of new work.
-According to Manovich, “remixing” is a better term because it suggests a systematic re-working of a source, the meaning which “appropriation” does not have.

-The other older term commonly used across media is “Quoting.”
-If remixing implies systematically rearranging the whole text, quoting refers to inserting some fragments from old text(s) into the new one.
-We shouldn't see quoting as a historical precedent for remixing. Rather, we can think of it as a precedent for another new practice of authorship practice that, like remixing, was made possible by electronic and digital technology – sampling.

-SAMPLING
-Music critic Andrew Goodwin defined sampling as “the uninhibited use of digital sound recording as a central element of composition. Sampling thus becomes an aesthetic programme.”
-It is tempting to say that the arrival of sampling technologies has industrialized the practices of montage and collage that were always central to twentieth century culture.Yet we should be careful in applying the old terms to new technologically driven cultural practices. While it is comforting to see the historical continuities, it is also too easy to miss new distinctive features of the present. The use of terms “montage” and “collage” in relation to the sampling and remixing practices is a case in point.
-rather than sampling from mass media to create a unique and final artistic work (as in modernism), contemporary musicians use their own works and works by other artists in further remixes.



EXAMPLES

Gap Mangione - "Diana In The Autumn Wind"


(J.Dilla Production) Slum Village - "Fall In Love"


Miguel Atwood Ferguson & Carlos Niño - "Fall In Love"