ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the type of creativity that interests us in relation to remix, one that Don DeLillo cites as "true life" in the epigraph and examines homogeneous and heterogeneous sampling. Writing about creativity is like writing about a memory—it is engulfed in a web of associations, some that are seemingly other-worldly. Creativity is associated with what is deemed today to be the most valuable intellectual capacity: problem-solving. Within this category of creativity, problems are meant not only to be solved, but to disappear forever, making room for new problems, in a never-ending course of industrial and intellectual progress, perfectly synchronized for neoliberal agendas. Creativity is manifested in these practices in two different ways: in the first, what we will call the abstract practice, creativity resides essentially within the composer's mind from where it coordinates and organizes the formal creational process. The "more subtle ways" that McIntosh refers to must relate to creativity.
