Nick Berkte is better known to the recombinant as Pogo, the Australian slicer and sequencer who created those haunting remixes of classic movies.
He's taking on a new project – and wants your help, funding each new 'track' with the proceeds from the previous and kicking it all off on Kickstarter – to remix the real world, sampling the sights and sounds of places and people, and blending them into audiovisual bricolage.
He explains all this above – and you can see his first city remix below – and read more about it here.
This is, in some ways, an entirely new form of remix culture, as it is being made not from pre-existing fragments of culture, but audio and visual clips of the world, which are being created exclusively for the '[re]mix'.
'Art' has always been locked in an inextricable relationship with the 'the world' – representing, reflecting – all the way back to imagination itself, in Locke's formulation, using simple ideas acquired from [perceived in] the real world, like horses and horns, and remixing them into unicorns.
Art not imitating life, but stealing from it.
3 responses to “Remix The Real World”
This continues the use of co-creation with the consumer. It goes farther in that Berkte includes the consumer in the creation, financing and production processes.
@clweinfeld
There’s a guy named Halsey Burgund doing similar kinds of work focused on audio remixes:
http://halseyburgund.com/
I’ve seen a couple of his shows, and they are pretty amazing.
nice one – thanks!