Remix Culture

A community’s traditional music is its tether to the collective wisdom of past generations. Digital remix expands our imagination into a future of all possibilities. Film and storytelling move us to connect more deeply with each other. Collaboration reminds us we are greater than the sum of our parts. We harmonize these expressions to elevate underrepresented communities while building more sustainable and equitable human relationships. We see an urgent need to realign the individual with the collective, the past with the future, the local with the global. We hear the call to invest in mutually beneficial relationships and a participatory culture that celebrates our diversity and honors our shared humanity. Remix Culture does this through the most powerful form of communication in the world: music. Since 2012, guided by our open-access and Fair Trade model, we have been traversing the globe to exchange and partner with unsung communities. We collaboratively record, film, and remix their rich musical traditions while offering free skill-sharing workshops to empower the people to creatively tell their own stories. We share the resulting audiovisual treasures on our interactive online platform. There, visitors from across the world experience the music as more than just the sounds: as a window into the people, landscapes, colors, and life stories. Visitors then engage with the music and musicians, download our unique tools for free to create their own remixes, and join our collective. We take the music, film and remixes to digital platforms, festivals, and cultural establishments worldwide. All financial gains are shared equally between co-creators. Our vision of a world based on mutual respect and celebration of our differences informs everything we do, including our financial models, designed to keep the artists and our organization invested in each other’s success.