03 Everything is a Remix
Lead on this creation: Carla
DESCRIPTION: Although the title of this course is Visual AI Studio, this week we encourage you to use an AI audio application to complete a remix (see definitions and inspiration below) of a beloved or despised song. You can include visuals of yourself or your friends deepfaked as the singer or the band; you can create a remixed music video; you can create a new score using musical notation. The sky is the limit in how you choose to remix, but given that the concept of Remix "often referenced in popular culture derives from the model of music remixes which first produced around the late 1960s and early 1970s in New York City," audio should be a core component in this work. (quote: https://remixtheory.net/?page_id=3)
BE PREPARED to discuss this creation in class or on discord next week.
COURSE NAMING CONVENTIONS FOR DIGITAL FILES: YearSemester_CourseTitle_NameOfActivity_FirstLastName.fileformat Ex: 24FA_AI_Remix_GongfuWu.jpg
Suggested Text to Audio/Sound Apps:
Image to Sound (Based on image generated for text to image) :
Open Source :
INSPIRATION: This quote by Jim Jarmusch, who additionally quotes Jean-Luc Godard: “Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don't bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: ‘It's not where you take things from - it's where you take them to.’”
...and Everything is a Remix
Everything is a Remix is a four-part documentary series on remix culture. It was produced by Kirby Ferguson, a US-based filmmaker. The series focuses on remixing as form of creativity.
Remixing, mashups and sampling have all been with us for many years now but the saturation of high-speed broadband has seen an explosion in the access to media and its inevitable resampling and subsequent sharing, where the process begins over again.
Pablos Picasso once said “good artists copy; great artists steal,” and Steve Jobs, founder of Apple, used this line again in a 1995 interview.
DEFINITION: What is a Remix?
Generally speaking, remix culture can be defined as the global activity consisting of the creative and efficient exchange of information made possible by digital technologies that is supported by the practice of cut/copy and paste. The concept of Remix often referenced in popular culture derives from the model of music remixes which were produced around the late 1960s and early 1970s in New York City, an activity with roots in Jamaica’s music.[1] Today, Remix (the activity of taking samples from pre-existing materials to combine them into new forms according to personal taste) has been extended to other areas of culture, including the visual arts; it plays a vital role in mass communication, especially on the Internet. Definitions:
Remix: A remix is a piece of media which has been altered or contorted from its original state by adding, removing, and changing pieces of the item. A song, piece of artwork, books, video, poem, or photograph can all be remixes. The only characteristic of a remix is that it appropriates and changes other materials to create something new.
Mash-up - something created by combining elements from two or more sources: such as
a piece of music created by digitally overlaying an instrumental track with a vocal track from a different recording
a movie or video having characters or situations from other sources
a Web service or application that integrates data and functionalities from various online sources
Appropriation Art - appropriation in art is the use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them. The use of appropriation has played a significant role in the history of the arts (literary, visual, musical and performing arts).
Cultural appropriation, at times also phrased cultural misappropriation, is the adoption of an element or elements of one culture or identity by members of another culture or identity. This can be controversial when members of a dominant culture appropriate from disadvantaged minority cultures.
Cultural syncretism is when distinct aspects of different cultures blend together to make something new and unique. Since culture is a wide category, this blending can come in the form of religious practices, architecture, philosophy, recreation, and even food.
Plagiarism: the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.
SCAMPER: Subsitute Combine Adapt Modify Put to another use Eliminate Rearrange or Reverse. You can post images of other works that seem related to what your artist does, or post an image of the artist's work and write about ways that you think they have used the SCAMPER technique in some way.
EXAMPLES:
Prompts Used: Ethereal synths and ambient tones echo alien femininity—hypersexualized, objectified, and underestimated. A Cat Lady defies male-centered worlds, revealing the eerie uncanniness of forgotten female bodies5:51Yesha ShahAmbient drones and glitchy synths pulse through alien femininity—hypersexualized, objectified, yet powerful. A Cat Lady disrupts male-dominated realms, embodying the uncanniness of forgotten female bodies.5:51Yesha ShahAlien femininity—hypersexualized, objectified. A Cat Lady, set to ethereal synths and ambient tones, defies male-centered worlds, embodying the eerie uncanniness of overlooked female bodies.
MORE INSPIRATION
A Musikalisches Würfelspiel (German for "musical dice game") was a system for using dice to randomly generate music from precomposed options. These games were quite popular throughout Western Europe in the 18th century. Several different games were devised, some that did not require dice, but merely choosing a random number.
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