Christian Marclay mini-documentary

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I was Assistant Editor on Paul D. Miller a.k.a DJ Spooky's Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture, which is available from The MIT Press and fine bookstores all over.

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I have a little piece in Disinformation's first book, You Are Being Lied To, a compendium of dissent, which also includes essays by Noam Chomsky, Howard Bloom, Douglas Rushkoff, Howard Zinn, Richard Metzger, Alex Burns, and Mark Pesce, among many others.

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Christian Marclay mini-documentary

January 15th, 2008 | 2 Comments | Category: Marginalia, Videos

Artist Christian Marclay has been manipulating records and turntables in a very un-Hip-hop manner since anyone else has (Hip-hop or otherwise). As someone who creates new compositions out of old ones using turntables and records, he very well might be the first turntablist.

His turntable work involves scratching, bending, breaking, cutting, reconfiguring, and otherwise repurposing records in order to mine their hidden sounds, intended as well as inadvertent.

During a brief web search the other night, I found the following mini-documentary (runtime: 5:50) about him. Enjoy.

Further Posting:

2 Comments »

Gabi Wan Kenobi said:

I saw the “Guitar Drag” installation at ConWorks(now defunct???) a few years ago and was blown away by its simple, yet hard-hitting political statement in reference to the lynching of James Byrd Jr. I wish more people would find such powerful avenues approaching important issues without being overly polemic.
Good work

# January 18th, 2008 at 4:44 pm

Bring the Noise: Systems, Sound, and Silence | Roy Christopher said:

[...] in particular, up through our current binary blips and bleeps, clicks and clacks — including Christian Marclay‘s multiple artistic forays and the Cory Arcangel’s digital synesthesia. This book is [...]

# November 28th, 2011 at 6:39 pm

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I am currently an Assistant Instructor corrupting the youth at The University of Texas at Austin, where I am also pursuing a Ph.D. in Communication Studies. My main interests are figurative language use and the social impacts of technology. My main goal as a writer is to entertain and as a scientist is to find novelty. I’m more of the former than the latter and more of a fan than a critic. This site is where all of these things play out. It’s where I think aloud about all of the above.

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