The class yeilded our first “fold in”: How to Domesticate a Pirate [paper fold pirate pop remix] by Scott-Patrick Mitchell. Scott-Patrick’s project ”The Trickster’s Bible” was also in town and all were invited to “track the Trickster through Newcastle’s streets, following a public trail of dirty Laundry… piece together the truth as poems, charms, curses and love-letters lead you into the broken heart of this city.”

Aden Rolfe chose to do a Burroughs style cut up with his How to Domesticate a Pirate [a mestic remix], Nick Lowe’s Mum showed us How you won’t be able to prevent yourself becoming a Domesticated Pakeha and John Jacobs used a combined constrained cross-out and cut-up technique to discover How to Romesticate a Pilot.

If the young lady with the big hat who didn’t have time to finish her “siren” remix is out there, don’t forget to email yours in too: anthology@creativecommons.org.au

Everyone else you have just over a week to get your remixes in before the October 19 deadline.

The end is nigh!

RML has received our first literary mash-up. Again, the Healing Tickle (the Way Black Glitters): A Mash-Up by Angela Meyer is a derivative work from Philip Neilsen’s Beowulf in Brisbane, Stefan Laszczuk’s The New Cage, Cate Kennedy’s Renovator’s Heaven, Lee Battersby’s Alchymical Romance, and “the author’s inevitably influenced, intertextual imagination…”

We think it’s rather special and should inspire you. If you haven’t checked out Angela’s blog LiteraryMinded, do yourself a favour… the author Antony Loewenstein calls her, “a highly engaged woman with a love of unconventional thoughts on books and new media”. Miss LiteraryMinded has blogged the recent Melbourne Writers Festival in her usual astute and highly entertaining style.

RML has also had our first exegesis written! The author Amelia Schmidt is taking a course on Hypertext theory at the University of Sydney and has written an exegesis about remixing Danielle Wood’s story How to Domesticate a Pirate. The exegesis is very insightful and we love this bit:

“Considering Remix my Lit as a narrative in itself as a whole website may not be the reader’s immediate reaction, as one is drawn in by the narratives of each individual story and remix. However, it is through this broader narrative of the website – its narrative which begins with the reader and ends with the reader, transformed Cinderella-like, in to a writer and finally, as the clock strikes midnight, in to a reader again.”

Best of all, Amelia has published her exegesis on the RML website under a (CC) BY-NC-SA licence so that you are free to remix her text (see our ABC POOL Post). Thanks Amelia!

And check out our first remix of a remix. Joel McCaffery has remixed Dreamless [Amigo Westbrook Remix] with his Dreamless [via Amigo Westbrook remix]. Nice work.

So jump up and down, get remixing, tell your friends, check out our existing remixes, including cut ups from the Melbourne Writers Festival masterclass and flash fictions via sms in Fed Square, and email your remixes to anthology@creativecommons.org.au.

And stay tuned for the exciting (and imminent) announcement of exactly which forward thinking Australian publisher will be publishing the remix anthology and releasing it under a Creative Commons licence!

A sometime DJ, Sean has remixed Kim Wilkins’s short story Dreamless. All the lines are lifted intact from the original story, apart from a couple of tiny tense tweaks to create a villanelle: a short poem of written in tercets (usually five) followed by a final quatrain, all being based on two rhyme.

Sean is the author of over sixty published short stories and twenty-five novels, he has been nominated for the Ditmar, the Aurealis and the prestigious Philip K Dick Award and his work has been published around the world in numerous languages, on-line, and in spoken word editions.

Read Sean’s Super-Villanelle Dub Mix and alternate remix and tell us what you think!