The DJ's tracks are just tone producing elements. If he plucked one of the 13 strings of a koto, we wouldn't say he is just remixing the vibration of the koto.

The DJ's tracks are just tone producing elements. If he plucked one of the 13 strings of a koto, we wouldn't say he is just remixing the vibration of the koto. Perhaps we could say that, if we had justification. There is a way of using a musical instrument as just a noise maker to produce its characteristics sounds. Similarly, a writer doesn't just remix the alphabet, spaces and punctuation symbols. A randomly generated soup of those symbols could the thought of as their remix, in a sense. The question is, is there a meaning being expressed using those elements as symbols? Or is just the mixing all there is to the meaning? I.e. the result says "I'm a mix of this stuff and nothing more". If you mix Alphagetti and Zoodles, you don't have a story about animals.