Open source is ever growing and in the minds of the youth, copyright is a word that belongs to the stuffy past. Part of our research process is to find (new) ways of creative and artistical ways of remixing old video to produce something new and add an extra layer of value to it. We came across 2 initiatives that are so cool we need to share. These are example of brilliant creative re-use of already existing media.

First, there’s Kutiman. He produces psychedelic funk music. His abilities to mix and mash online videoclips is through the roof! For his project Thru You he searched Youtube for unrelated videos of people singing and/or using various instruments. Throw all those clips together and you get a huge mess – well, we would anyway. Kutiman manages to create some slick tracks out of these mash ups. Check it out! Also visit his Youtube channel for some inspiring sounds & visuals.

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Next up is the vibrant group called Eclectic Method. Here’s what Wired had to say about them:

Eclectic Method’s kinetic live shows splice music, film, TV and videogames into a body-rocking audiovisual concoction that gets clubbers hopping and synapses popping. “We are constantly in the process of remixing media and researching new forms of narrative that multiscreen stimulus brings,” said the trio’s Jonny Wilson in an e-mail to Wired.com. “We also rock a sick party with clips you saw on TV just yesterday, mashed up with a million memories from the collective media history we all share.”The group has also managed to turn remixing, an art form that has earned its practitioners no small amount of legal trouble over the years, into a lucrative business. Ever since Eclectic Method emerged in 2002 remixing videos for U2 and Beastie Boys, Wilson and his partners Ian Edgar and Geoff Gamlen — who work remotely from Los Angeles and London, respectively — have been scratching DVDs live like skilled DJs and doing remixes for major tech companies and media outlets.

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Is this the future of live dj performance? Will clubbing become a mash up trip of sounds & visuals remixed into one big psychedelic experience?