“Under existing dominant society, which produces the miserable pseudo-games of non-participation, a true artistic activity … appears in the form of scanda...

manifesto

from the Latin manifestus, comprised of manus, denoting "hand,” and festus, which means "hit” or “stri...

"To an ever-increasing degree, the work [of art] reproduced becomes the reproduction of a work designed for reproducibility. From a photographic plate, for example, one can make any numb...

"It is impossible to understand social and cultural changes without a knowledge of the workings of me...

“The privileged role played by the manual construction of images in digital cinema is one example of a larger trend: the return of pre-cinematic moving images techniques. Marginali...

hitRECord revolutionizes dominant modes of production and reception by reversing the assumptions upon which they  hardheartedly turn. Today, for instance, those in the business of &...

"Substantially all ideas are second hand."

Mark Twain, "Letter to Anne Macy," Reprinted in Anne Sullivan Macy, The Story Behind Helen Keller (Garden City, N...

RECords divide like fire, not like pie. The more they are shared, the more there is for all. 

"In a world of digital networks, the process of interactive creativity is contradicted by the legislation of property rights inherited from the industrial era. The capture of innovation ...

“To each of us, through our own particular history, has been given the potential for participating in a unique series of disclosures: the capacity to bring certain creatures and certain th...

hitRECord confounds longstanding divisions between amateur and professional, and grants newfound dignity to both. According profits to all, it sees in every RECorder an amateur’s h...

“The major obstacle for amateurs is their sense of inferiority vis-à-vis professional productions. The very classification ‘amateur’ has an apologetic ring. But ...

"You can never play a record the same way for the same crowd.

That's why remixes happen."

Paul D. Miller, a....

dan and the Teafaerie's HitRECord Manifesto.

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This is HitRECord. It's an experiment. It's an art movement. It's a revolution...