Enlightenment, the Remix: Transparency as a DJ’s Trick of Seeing Everything From Nowhere

Abstract For a moment in 2009, the cacophony of YouTube’s masses of amateur musicians—school bands, guitarists of every flavor and even a theremin enthusiast—seemed to fall magically into lock step and key. Israeli musician Ophir Kutiel, better known as Kutiman, created a virtuosic work of “editing” that transcends that term’s connotations, an album built entirely from snippets of YouTube videos’ audio. This cycle of music videos, Thru-YOU (Kutiel, 2009), is as rich... Read More