Today’s Media lectorial covered a topic highly relevant to current music culture and young media consumers. There seems to be a continuous debate over whether it is acceptable or appropriate for one artist to take material from another artist, and in turn, create a completely new/different media material.

 

A Remix is a piece of media which has been altered from it’s original state by adding, removing, and/or changing pieces of the item.

Dan, our lecturer, proposed that there is no such thing as an original idea.

I guess that’s the same with people too.

A person’s thoughts, behaviour, and actions are all a product of our genes, environment, and experiences. We as humans are like our own little mash-ups. A mix of our mother, our father, our grandparents, and our great grandparents. We are a reflection of our external environment, our up-bringing, and our genetics.

 

Yet we are each individual masterpieces. Stemming from the same DNA but totally unique in our own right.

Equipped with our own distinctive voice box and a brain full of character and persona.

A forever original combination of eyes, ears, nose and mouth.

 

The things we see, hear, feel, and learn in our lifetime are the entities that assist in shaping who we are.  Allowing us to grow and develop as human beings.

This does not mean we are a plagiarized product of our surroundings.

But rather an incredibly unique result of a life filled with joy, grief, shame, regret, happiness, sadness, love and loss.

We are each a remarkable remix.