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Read from sections of the Cut'n'Mix user guide:
Get a fully functional TRIAL version of Cut'n'Mix to test out its many features:  Download Cut 'n' Mix 6.0
20 MB, Windows XP,Vista or 7 required. Note: Functionality MAY be limited on some editions of Windows 7 - test with your version of Windows first before purchasing license. This installer contains a fully-functional 7-day trial. For continued use beyond the trial period, a license can be purchased for $19.95. Licensing permits activation on up to 5 computers for personal or business use. Purchase instructions are contained in the application, or check the licensing page.) Find out about how the Cut'n'Mix application came to be: from the initial inspiration through the variety of different versions, all is documented in the Cut-up Application Museum. |
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Who is responsible for all of this nonsense? Get to know me! Here is a short 
Mac OS X Version
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Many of the word processing functions found in Cut'n'Mix for Windows are now available in a version for Mac computers. Basic functions like text shuffle and mutlitrack text file mixing are included, plus more unique features like "smart replace" (word morpher), shredding, gluing and random fill. The Mac version also introduces better handling of large text files by allowing the user to page through large texts 200 words at a time. To find out more about the Mac version functions or download a copy that will run on Mac OS X, go to:
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Tutorials, Demos, Creative Writing Resources
Cut'n'Mix User Guide Videos
Watch video clips demonstrating Cut'n'Mix functions.
For an online example of the Cut'n'Mix answer to "magnetic poetry", try the virtual paper and scissors style Cut-up Laboratory. To find out how Cut'nMix helps you astound, confuse and impress the groundlings, try Shakespeare's Brain . To read texts submitted by Cut 'n' Mix users and other visitors to this site, go to the texts page. A new online tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to turn output text from Cut'n'Mix into Ransom Note Art. What's on the Idiot Box? Experimental Interactive Web Page Word Art. Read a review of a recent film about Brion Gysin, the Canadian artist who is often credited as being the inventor of the "cut-up" method of creative writing. The film is centered around another of his creative inventions used to help expand consciousness and open the doors of perception: The Dream Machine. CutNMix.com revists a classic text by Edward de Bono: The Use of Lateral Thinking explains how logical, "vertical" thinking constrains the creative process. Creative writers need to throw a wrench in the works to get over writer's block (and other impediments to the imagination). As de Bono himself explains: "It is not possible to look in a different direction by looking harder in the same direction."
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Searching for The Creative Spark:
In a collection of Dylan Thomas's non-poetic writings entitled "Early Prose Writings", there is a Q and A section in which he responds to questions posed by his readership. One question of particular interest in the context of this web sites' subject matter relates to sources of inspiration: "DO YOU WAIT FOR A SPONTANEOUS IMPULSE BEFORE WRITING A POEM; IF SO, IS THIS IMPULSE VERBAL OR VISUAL?" What is suggested here is that creativity is spawned by some kind of random blast of text or image, perhaps sneaking up from the subconsious like some suppressed Freudian monster. In the words of Dylan Thomas: "... poetry must drag further into the clean nakedness of light more even of the hidden causes than Freud could realise." In Cut'n'Mix version 6, the ROBOCOLLAGE feature creates a new kind of Rorschach which randomly mixes verbal and visual elements in a way which may stir up some of the lurking subconscious demons (or angels) to inspire new prose and poetry creations. Check out some other software tools for creative writers: Icon Poet, Wordle: a toy for generating "word clouds", Cut-Up Machine, Random Writing & New Media , For a break from the automated and cybernetic methods, get some advice and inspiration from real human writers with: Creative Writing Tips From 18 Online Authors... For further recommendations of tools and information related to the creative writing process, open the links page. Address all comments and enquiries about Cut'n'Mix to info@cutnmix.com. Many moons ago, Cutnmix.com was called "Esoteric Sensationalism": to see the original website format check out the Old Esoteric Sensationalism Archive site. Site design and electronic media production by Digimatica Digital Media |
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