Guessing I should chime in.
What Christian Marclay does is actually an extension of what many
of the DMC battle champions started doing. Using tape, or other means
to get a record to skip (in time, or a controlled skip). I've used
the technique before and it is a bunch of fun...When I was creating
musique concrete/experimental works, the turntable was my fourth
instrument usually.
Using four turntables and marking all your records like Marclay does
is pretty interesting, yet the problem is that after awhile, you just
kind of get the feeling that he was done halfway into his performance?
You can use glue to do it...DAC Crowell at one point got an old
dubplate from Jamaica which had a skip in it (chocolate...LOL), most
guys that I've known to 'mark' their records used the labels from
cassette tapes (remember those things???)
Denise, your question just made me nostalgic....I'm remembering how
I taught myself how to cut a locked groove on an old rek-o-cut mono
lathe...and how proud I was:)
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:07 AM, AntonBanks.com <[email protected]> wrote:
> Really interesting topic!
>
> I don't mean to derail the conversation but this link got me thinking...
>
> I'd never heard of Christian Marclay before so I checked out the links. I
> don’t find myself saying this too often but I REALLY don't get his music. I
> thought this wass odd because I've come to really like ambient and
> soundscapes. I can tell that there is a definite purpose behind what he is
> doing. Wikipedia pegs him as the "unwitting inventor of turntablism" and I
> agree with that statement. You can certainly learn a few turntablism
> techniques by watching what he does. It's just that the overall performance
> is totally lost on me.
>
> -ant-
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Taylor [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 6:58 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: (313) Re: Research question about vinyl manipulation
>
>
> I don't know if anyone in the dance scene has done anything like this. This
> kind of stuff falls more into the noise scene. I can remember the Time
> Stereo guys drilling holes in records so that they would play off center and
> sound wobbly, but that is the only thing that comes to mind.
>
> This guy has made a career of that gimmick:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Marclay
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIFH4XHU228
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVr-_lGxib4
>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Denise Dalphond <[email protected]>
>> To: [email protected]
>> Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 18:08:48 -0400
>> Subject: Research question about vinyl manipulation
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Has anyone ever done or heard of anyone doing the following IN
>> DETROIT:
>>
>> Physically manipulating a piece of vinyl by cutting it down the middle
>> exactly and then gluing it to another half of vinyl so that the
>> grooves match up and it can actually play? Or any other kind of
>> dramatic vinyl manipulation? I'm thinking of things beyond concentric
>> grooves, groove reversal (starting a record from the inside to play
>> outward), and looped grooves.
>>
>> Feel free to message me directly if you'd rather. Thanks!
>>
>> --
>> Denise Dalphond
>> Ph.D. Candidate
>> Department of Folklore & Ethnomusicology
>> Indiana University
>> http://denisedjsdetroit.blogspot.com/
>>
>>
>>
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