Remix

“Remix is a part of a larger process of adaptation, which involves the manipulation and rearrangement of “original” materials, modes, genres, and stories into something new.” In our world today, we listen, watch, and create remixes all the time. A website in itself is a form of remix. The usage of quotes, media, text, video, etc. creates a new remix seeing as the combined material is remixed onto a new platform. “In modern society, part of the popularity of remixing is in the pleasure of recognizing similarities, differences, connections, and variations between the old and new material.” Taking the information from different resources other than the text book and using it on the web page allows you to compare and contrast information of the same subject, as well as use all of it to give a wide variety on that subject for the reader to receive and enjoy.

Remix is most commonly seen and noted in music, when a song is redone (remixed) to update it or fit it into a new genre and maybe a more modern style of music today. The example in this video is a well known television show theme song that has been remixed in the genre or style of trap music and has been edited in a way that classifies it as a remix. One main component of remix especially in music is the opportunity of time, otherwise known as Kairos. The kairos of remix effects the circulation as well as the ethos of the music overall.

The largest form of Remix is the social media form, Twitter. Many different genres of imagery, music, movies and books have been recreated on Twitter and circulated through large fields of people. Another key concept that works with this form of remix is Kairos, the opportunity of time, as well as Ethos, the image portrayed or message received from a specific thing or person. Writing in the 21st century depends on this form of remix to recreate and re-circulate old work and art into modern day society.