I've written several computer programs to manipulate text. Some of these programs use rules and lists of words to produce totally new texts as output. Other programs take existing texts as input, then blend and alter them to produce a new text. The latter I term "remixes".

I've borrowed the remix paradigm from popular music. In popular music, variant recorded versions of a song are termed remixes. After the primary stage of creativity, writing a song or text, the new paradigm recognizes a second creative stage, enacted by the recording engineer or editor. For example, in Jamaican dub music, the engineer adds echo and other special effects to create something quite different to the original song. I would like to extend the role of an editor in a similar creative direction. The editor as creative collaborator, doing daring, imaginative things.

[remix of a book review]

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[a randomly generated stream of commonly occurring English words]

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of openbaar gemaakt door middel van druk, fotokopie, microfilm of op welke andere wijze ook zonder voorafgaande legend about the famous painter Zhang Sengyao. Zhang was painting four dragons on the wall of a temple in vibrato, een gladde lyrische toon en geraffineerde harmonieën. Door deze donkergekleurde jazztrompettisten kwam de spontaniteit
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