Bill Katz

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In this age of web services and expanding internet connectivity, remixing is taking on a new level of meaning. Small bits of information -- links, tags, images, syndicated blog entries -- travel the internet and are recombined, remixed, into new aggregates. Software is being remixed. Business models are being remixed. O'Reilly used remixes as a theme for their recent Emerging Technology conference, and they give a nice heads-up on Penguin UK's contest for remixing spoken word samples with homegrown music. Aside from the remix of two different types of audio programming, the contest highlights the combination of three businesses: Audible, iTunes, and Penguin.

My mother, Nga Katz, has developed a unique style combining three art forms: Chinese brush techniques, the simplicity of Japanese art, and the "story telling" of each painting from her Vietnamese perspective. Her medium is watercolor on rice paper and silk.

Picture: Happy Koi by Nga Bui Katz

My brother has been playing music since we were little. Although he was an award-winning musician with the clarinet, more recently, he's been playing keyboard and composing. I managed to obtain smoking-gun blackmail material: an "interesting" music video of Nithanya¹, a song off his Brandon Project CD. He's the Asian guy with the turban moving rhythmically while at the keyboard.² I would describe the song as Indian folk tune meets rap.