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Dec. 9th, 2018 01:28 pmSo I'm going to try to fill up this journal with some content. It's surprisingly tough after tumblr made me used to the reblog + tag as commentary formula. And I'll start by x-posting from my tumblr with an eye on how that goes.
So I’ve been thinking a lot about remixing since I find it fascinating as a fannish approach. I remember a lot of discussion about it way back in the day. On a high level, I like how remixing sheds like on the techniques we use to “transform” canon (this is the name of the game in essence, no? to create “transformative work?”).
All that munching on remixing made me also think about beat sampling these days (another way of thinking about transformative is a “cover” which I might talk about at some point), and the kind of relationship that presupposes to an “original” track. I mean, I think of how Mobb Deep samples She Blinded Me With Science in Get it Twisted than and how Pete Rodriguez’s I Like It Like That gets sampled in Cardi B’s I like It. You can’t argue that the samples aren’t the basis, but the songs move into clearly different directions than their samples, and both have a different relationship to them.
I feel like my shit these days is closer to the former example than the later as I grow less interested in canon-for-itself and more interested as using it as a jumping point for narratives that just wouldn’t fit there for any number of reasons.
So I’ve been thinking a lot about remixing since I find it fascinating as a fannish approach. I remember a lot of discussion about it way back in the day. On a high level, I like how remixing sheds like on the techniques we use to “transform” canon (this is the name of the game in essence, no? to create “transformative work?”).
All that munching on remixing made me also think about beat sampling these days (another way of thinking about transformative is a “cover” which I might talk about at some point), and the kind of relationship that presupposes to an “original” track. I mean, I think of how Mobb Deep samples She Blinded Me With Science in Get it Twisted than and how Pete Rodriguez’s I Like It Like That gets sampled in Cardi B’s I like It. You can’t argue that the samples aren’t the basis, but the songs move into clearly different directions than their samples, and both have a different relationship to them.
I feel like my shit these days is closer to the former example than the later as I grow less interested in canon-for-itself and more interested as using it as a jumping point for narratives that just wouldn’t fit there for any number of reasons.
