(English) Original Cultures Remixed vol 1

The first Original Cultures remix project is underway and after a couple months’ planning and scheming we can finally reveal some details. Titled Original Cultures remixed vol 1, the remix project is an integral part of Original Cultures’ program of activities (or CEP), more on which you can find here.

The remix project is a fairly straight forward activity which takes place following each Original Cultures event, primarily over the internet. Once an event is finished we select elements of the works created by the artists during the event and pass these onto new artists to create remixes. The new artists are chosen by both the organisers and the artists involved in the event, with each country (UK, Italy and Japan) represented by a new artist and remix.

The remixes themselves currently follow one of three formats:
- audio remixes ie. elements of audio created during an event are given to an artist to create an audio remix/track
- video remixes/soundtracking ie. video footage from the event or videos created during an event are given to an artist to remix and/or soundtrack
- visual remixes ie. elements of visual art created during an event are given to an artist to use as the basis for a new work, such as painting, fine arts, etc…

For the first remix project we have asked 6 new artists to work on audio remixes and video remixes/soundtracking. The audio remixes will include 3 tracks created from parts 2tall/Om Unit, Tatsuki and Tayone wrote during their workshops at our Bologna event earlier this year. The video remixes will see 3 artists remix and/or soundtrack the animation Will Barras, Ericailcane and DEM created in Bologna.

We are still finalising the full line up however we can announce that Blue Daisy will be remixing 2tall/Om Unit for the UK, while Baku will be remixing Tatsuki for Japan. On the video remix front Memory9 will be remixing and soundtracking the animation for Italy. We’ll be announcing the remaining participants for the remix project very shortly!

All these remixes will be made available online to view, listen to and download in October, as part of an online showcase. Following this we’ll also be including them as part of the exhibition that will take place at our London event in November 2009. More on that particular event very soon too. For now we recommend you check these artists for yourselves and stay tuned for more documentation from the Bologna event including an audio and a video documentary dropping in September.