Remixing

**Remix Culture**
//Remix culture is a society that allows and encourages derivative works by combining or editing existing materials to produce a new product.[1] A remix culture would be, by default, permissive efforts to improve upon, change, integrate, or otherwise remix the work of copyright holders. In his book Remix, Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard law professor, presents this as a desirable idea. Progress and wealth creation of a culture is fundamentally tied to remixing//. //[|Wikipedia definition]//

There are many easily accessible digital tools tools you can use to remix and repurpose digital content such as:
 * Text
 * Images
 * Videos
 * Audio
 * Web
 * Product Design


 * Text **

This is perhaps the common use of remixing, and covers image manipulation, digital collage, poster design. it is relatively easy to undertake at all ages and levels.
 * Images**

Remixing videos is slightly more complex and time intensive than images, but there is much more software and applications are becoming more intuitive and easier to use, making sophisticated tools now available to all - especially on mobile devices. The example below was created from Public Domain clips available from the [|Pond5 Public Domain Project]
 * Videos**

media type="youtube" key="gOTeFIGzsKo" width="560" height="315"

Here are some example audio files form the Internet Archive to demonstrate the range available - that could be remixed or repurposed in other media (suggestion! ....try playing two or more simultaneously)
 * Audio **

media type="custom" key="26694366" //78rpm Jazz recording// media type="custom" key="26705900" //Bluegrass// media type="custom" key="26705918" //Whistler extraordinaire// media type="custom" key="26705928" //Classical// media type="custom" key="26705946" //News// media type="custom" key="26705942" //Scanners (police /fire /aircraft etc)//

Mozilla has developed some excellent tools to remix the web including [|XRayGoogles], [|Thimble] and [|Popcorn Maker] and app maker
 * Web **


 * Product design**

The Garden of Earthly Delights remixed as a saleable product; Pillow Cases from [|Etsy] The [|Rijkstudio] by The [|Rijksmuseum] provides high resolution images and tutorials and advice on 'making' artefacts with its collections from the Public Domain. The idea of making objects from public domain is an interesting one, and perhaps a good subject for further discussion in the discussion tab. Rijkstudio offers some advice and suggestions on how to take this further [|here].


 * Competitions**
 * Hack the Bells, international remix contest where all works submitted and remixed were CC BY SA licensing

Excellent list of ideas, [|resources and activities] from Mozilla Make a 1-2 minute [|video remix of the] [|Pond5] public domain content

Possible **Learning Activities and Outcomes**
 * [|Remix a museum collections] via Mozilla
 * Multimedia skills
 * Media Literacy
 * Design skills
 * Coding skills

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