Concretist experimentation in the 20th century has been followed, in recent decades, with new expressions that explore the media's own cultural repertoires and the respective regimes of experience as materials of invention, enabled by audiovisual computing devices and by digital networks. As an empirical corpus, this article discusses the video mash-ups of the Eclectic Method, portraying them as pastiches of a concretist outlook that use sounds, images and discourses that are recurrent in the media culture and on the Internet. The philosophical concepts of "refrain" and "cutting" developed by G. Deleuze and F. Guattari (1997) will be revisited to discuss groove and cut'n'paste as methods used by "Vj mixtapes" to pick up and recompose "audio-logo-visual" materials from media networks. By injecting paradoxes in saturated experience, these "curator artists" promote experimentations in listening, visuality and imagination.
audiovisual expressions; media networks; video mash-up; ritornello