Asking the twitterverse to help explain to students in ds106, Digital Storytelling.
This was originally published on Storify at https://storify.com/cogdog/remix-or-mashup-what-s-the-diff but because they are trashing their web site in May 2018, I have liberated my content here using the Storify Link Extractor tool.
What is difference between Remix & Mashup? I can't always sort it out- help our #ds106 students. Tell us, not just links (#weCanGoogleToo)
— Alan Levine (@cogdog) July 16, 2012
http://remixtheory.net/?page_id=3
https://twitter.com/saracup/status/224914419442925569
@cogdog for me: remix = creative personal rendition of a song/video; mashup = creative blending of multiple songs/videos #ds106
— Tom Evans (@taevans) July 16, 2012
Remix is the reworking or adaptation of an existing work. The remix may be subtle, or it may completely redefine how the work comes across. It may add elements from other works, but generally efforts are focused on creating an alternate version of the original. A mashup, on the other hand, involves the combination of two or more works that may be very different from one another.
@cogdog like @taevans said, remix is scrambling something, mashup is blend multiple things #ds106
— paul bond (@phb256) July 16, 2012
http://cogdogblog.com/2012/07/16/mashup-or-remix/
@cogdog Mashuup: combining two or more elements into a coherent whole. Remix: changing a work, adding new elements, reordering #ds106
— Mikhail Gershovich (@mgershovich) July 16, 2012
http://meador.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/remix-and-mashup/
"So what is the difference between a remix and a mashup? In my parlance remixes are alternate versions of a work, while mashups blend two or more works together. "
@cogdog fine line; IMO "remix" reworks original work & keeps it recongizeable w/ improvements; mashup combines 2 or more into something new
— Scott Leslie (@sleslie) July 16, 2012
@cogdog I think @mgershovich and I just said the same thing
— Scott Leslie (@sleslie) July 16, 2012
Mashup Remix?? Oh noes.
@cogdog I would suggest it has to do with how recognizable and how many orginal sources are being combined – maybe more to remix?
— Emory Maiden (@evmaiden) July 16, 2012
@cogdog I think of Mashup a little more A vs B – remix more broad like work of #EverythingisaRemix – though I'm curious the response u get
— Emory Maiden (@evmaiden) July 16, 2012
@sleslie @cogdog @mgershovich Is this remix or mashup? http://t.co/8uE55s1m It gets blurry quickly, good remix often creates something new
— Jim Groom (@jimgroom) July 16, 2012
Everything is a Remix- Kirby Ferguson's 4 part video series
https://vimeo.com/14912890
https://vimeo.com/19447662
https://vimeo.com/25380454
https://vimeo.com/36881035
See more videos from the Everything is a Remix site
@cogdog mash up has two or more recognizable sources of "reused" content. Nirvana + JP Sousa = mashup Mashups can be a form of remix.
— Andrew Carle (@tieandjeans) July 16, 2012
https://twitter.com/TanyaSasser/status/224928447934382080
https://twitter.com/TanyaSasser/status/224928820388577282
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remix
"A remix is an alternative version of a recorded song, made from an original version. Sometimes this term is also used for alterations of media or recreation other than song (film, literature,beverages etc.). Remixing is the adoption, alteration, and recombination of pre-existing cultural texts (songs, literature, paintings, etc.) to create something new."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashup_(music)
"A mashup or bootleg (also mesh, mash up, mash-up, blend and bastard pop/rock) is a song or composition created by blending two or more pre-recorded songs, usually by overlaying the vocal track of one song seamlessly over the instrumental track of another"
@cogdog I think a mash up is different songs mixed together but a remix is one song arranged in a new way, I feel a metaphor coming on . . .
— Shannon ?? Wiebe (@Shannon_Wiebe) July 16, 2012
@cogdog #ds106 mash up=different songs together remix=1 song played in new way, mash up=fruit kabob remix=strawberries blended into smoothie
— Shannon ?? Wiebe (@Shannon_Wiebe) July 16, 2012
I think this fruit metaphor is the best!
@jimgroom @sleslie @cogdog Right and, according to the definitions floating around, we could also say that mashups are kinds of remixes.
— Mikhail Gershovich (@mgershovich) July 16, 2012
@jimgroom @sleslie @cogdog So blurry and not necessarily useful.
— Mikhail Gershovich (@mgershovich) July 16, 2012
https://twitter.com/psychemedia/status/225020897885569024