REMIX -- CULTURE INC

Runs multi-week in-person residencies that involve collaborative theme development, recording community-rooted songs, collecting oral histories, and co-creating long-form immersive live experiences. Residencies include artists such as Araceli Poma, Jalikunda, La Cumbiamba eNeYé, Tokounou All Ability, Dani Serna, Innov Gnawa, Zalazil, and Eylem Basaldi & Friends.

Organizes in-person and virtual events that integrate live traditional music, electronic and video remixes, storytelling, and projections to co-create ceremonial spaces that dissolve boundaries between performers and audiences. These gatherings reject passive spectatorship and emphasize mutual support and ancestral transmission.

Conducts global fieldwork to film and record traditional musicians, produces high-fidelity audio and artistically edited video documentation with subtitled lyrics, and creates remixed works using consent-based practices. These materials are archived and shared with cultural context and narratives directly from musicians and communities.

Hosts regular communal meals and informal gatherings—such as monthly dinners at Barzakh Café in Crown Heights, Brooklyn—that bring together artists from across programs to deepen relationships, share stories, and build solidarity networks without expectations of artistic output.

Uses grant funding, such as a two-year award from the Mellon Foundation, to support general operations and expand programming focused on diasporic musical traditions and ethical digital remixing.

Creates and distributes downloadable sample packs and stems under open licenses (Creative Commons BY NC SA) from professionally recorded traditional music, enabling ethical remixing by global artists. These resources are made available through the Community Remix Lab and Global Remix Commons initiatives.

Professionally masters and commercially releases remixed works to an international audience via platforms like YouTube, where the organization has over 68,000 subscribers and 18 million views. Revenue from releases is shared among remix artists, source musicians, and the organization.