THE INSTANT CUT

a window of inspiring projects on AVANT-TURNTABLISM | including some works by JD ZAZIE

[instantcut]

instant cut - text collage

[instantcut]

Vinyl Terror & Horror REGISTROS DE AUDICIÓN #06. 2014 - Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico

[instantcut]

The idea of using the record player to create and compose music instead of only as a playback device characterizes the modern turntablism genre, but already appeared in the days of the phonograph. This issue looks at the turntable from an experimental performance angle, with historical as well as artistic contributions.

So nice! This issue of "eContact!", the online journal of electroacoustic by CEC, focuses on Turntablism.

[instantcut]

Tasos Stamou BETON7 theatre 2011 - Athens

[instantcut]

Christian Marclay Mini documentary: Marclay discusses his interest in unwanted sound, his use of turntables, early examples of his art and more recent pieces too.

Christian Marclay (born 1955) is an American visual artist and composer based in New York. Marclay's work explores connections between sound, noise, photography, video and film. A pioneer of using gramophone records and turntables as musical instruments to create sound collage, Marclay is, in the words of critic Thom Jurek, perhaps the "unwitting inventor of turntablism." His own use of turntables and records, beginning in the mid-1970s, was developed independently of but roughly parallel to hip hop's use of the instrument.

[instantcut]

Pierre Schaeffer : Etude aux chemins de fer

The first piece of "musique concrete," composed by Pierre Schaeffer in 1948 out of sounds produced by trains.

For Étude aux chemins de fer Schaeffer built the first sampler. "He recorded a number of various sounds produced by trains and pressed them onto records, some in "closed grooves" such that the sound would loop indefinitely. Record players were arranged such that they could be triggered by different switches or keys. The composer (or performer), then could "play" the various sounds by pressing keys in the desired pattern (+ holding for the desired length of time, adjusting speed, etc.). The principles were twofold: improvisation and theme and variations. The former was a necessity in this uncharted musical territory, while the latter was one of the old standbys of Western music, but one sufficiently abstract that it could be applied in the new domain."

[ source: http://againstthemodernworld.blogspot.com ]

[instantcut]

Arnaud Rivière Soirée Curieuse #4bis 2011 - Le lieu unique, Nantes

[instantcut]

BETT4  (Joke Lanz/ Ignaz Schick/ Dawid Szczesny/ JD Zazie) Festival Ankunft: Neue Musik 2011 - Berlin Hauptbahnhof

[instantcut]

Otomo Yoshihide

[instantcut]

Kid Koala - “Drunk trompet”

[instantcut]

Otomo Yoshihide / ENSEMBLES - "hyper wr player" 2008 - YCAM, Yamaguchi

"hyper wr player - without records hi-fi version - " Otomo Yoshihide What is the sound that a record player has in itself? Adopting today’s state-of-the-art technologies to the full, this work “without record player” is based on the concept of “without records,” which uses only old portable record players and has been evolved through stages. This hyper-version performs deconstruction and reconstruction in the current perspective, taking away the recorded media (records) of a record player, the origin of recording media.

[instantcut]

JD Zazie Turntable Music Night 7 2010 - STEIM, Amsterdam

[instantcut]

eRikM & dj sniff NEXT Festival 2009 - A4 Theater, Bratislava