Tag Archives: remix

The rebirth of data – between database and narrative

Cendy Calis | 06 March 2011, 11:12 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , ,

In arts, it has always been customary that artists influence each other and build upon the work of their peers. However, in the 20th century, this tendency magnified even further. Art movements like pop art and Dada, with their ready-mades and collages, used existing material to create their artworks, instead of creating from scratch. The concept of sampling is often…

Non-commercial licensing on Creative Commons

Ashiq Khondker | 16 October 2010, 10:06 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , ,
What would life be without Bach? Far from any discussion of the aura, the only reason I have ever heard Bach is that his compositions have been relentlessly copied, passed down the generations, re-interpreted, re-adapted for new instruments (piano, electric guitar, moog), and let to remain free in the public/sonic

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Open Data

Marije Rooze | 29 September 2010, 1:04 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , ,

There is an open data movement afoot, now, around the world. (Berners-Lee, 2010)

Tim Berners-Lee is optimistic in his 2010 Ted talk The year open data went worldwide. Berners-Lee is one of the advocates for open data, he is trying to archieve that governments, companies and communities put their data sets online. When all this data is accessible, online…

Book Report of ‘Ourspace – Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture’ by Christine Harold

Sander Leegwater | 14 September 2009, 8:28 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

This book really hit an personal snare with me, because I have been trying to avoid most commercial expressions by any medium for years now. I really regard it as an invasion of my privacy – I didn’t ask to be battered with consumerism for all my life – but it seems that’s just how everyday day life has to…

Digital Music Becomes (more) Rhizomatic

Chris Castiglione | 26 February 2009, 2:58 am | tags: , , ,

As digital audio files continue to flow freely on the Internet, music itself mimics certain inherent characteristics of the web best understood through Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s (D&G) rhizome metaphor. Understanding digital music as rhizomatic is important because it interprets the transformations of the digital music culture as a natural progression towards rhizomatic qualities – and provides us with an insight into what might be the future of “the music industry”. Here are the top five reasons why music is becoming more rhizomatic.