Live Remix: A Brief Explanation Imagine you've just watched a concert, and immediately afterward, another set of musicians step up and reinterpret everything you've just heard, using elements of the original performance as a foundation. This is the essence of a live remix. 1. What is a Live Remix? A live remix is essentially a live interpretation of a performance, created immediately after this «source concert» ends. Instead of the conventional remix approach, where artists take a previously recorded track and modify its elements in a studio, live remixers work instantly, on the spot, giving the audience a fresh perspective on what they've just heard. 2. The Source Material: The remixer has access to the separate instrument signals from the source concert. This means that every note, beat, and sound made during the source concert can be isolated, sampled, and repurposed. 3. The Preparation Process (one of several possibilities – every remixer has a different approach): ⦁ Sampling: During for instance the first half of the source concert, the remixer is in 'capture mode'. They listen intently, picking out key moments, sounds, melodies, or rhythms they want to incorporate into the remix. These bits are then sampled, to be used later. The equipment used can be Ableton Live, hardware samplers or similar. ⦁ Organizing & Preparing: The second half of the concert is usually when the remixer goes into composition/preparation mode. They organize the samples, and decide on how they'll reshape and arrange the original sounds. This can mean looping, adding effects, reversing, stretching, layering – essentially preparing a «sound palette» for the live remix performance.