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Comment by kazinator

11 hours ago

The DJ's tracks are just tone producing elements.

If he plucked one of the 13 strings of a koto, we wouldn't say he is just remixing the vibration of the koto. Perhaps we could say that, if we had justification. There is a way of using a musical instrument as just a noise maker to produce its characteristics sounds.

Similarly, a writer doesn't just remix the alphabet, spaces and punctuation symbols. A randomly generated soup of those symbols could the thought of as their remix, in a sense.

The question is, is there a meaning being expressed using those elements as symbols?

Or is just the mixing all there is to the meaning? I.e. the result says "I'm a mix of this stuff and nothing more".

If you mix Alphagetti and Zoodles, you don't have a story about animals.