Journal 4

When thinking of composing practices, we have to take into account remixing and assemblage. Remixing is taking bits and pieces from other works and putting them together as one. When I first thought of remixing, I thought of the music industry. It has become so popular during this day in age for musicians to take parts or beats from other songs, and form one of there own. In the reading, the authors introduce their views on plagiarism and give us a perspective that relates to remixing and assemblage. They basically show us that it may not be as negative as we have previously known.  However, when I think of plagiarism and remixing, I do not think they are one in the same. Remixing is taking bits of other people’s work, but it is making it new and in a different way. Plagiarism is blatantly copying someone’s work and passing it off as your own. I think the two concepts do relate, but I do not think that they are interchangeable. When thinking about this topic, I did think about the fact that almost nothing is a completely new idea anymore. We are always taking concepts that have been previously taught to us, and putting our own twist on them. We are remixing what we know and have learned. Even when new inventions are created, they are taking items or ideas that have previously been taught to us. I think we live in a very remixed world, overall.