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Re: looping turntablist Christian Marclay



Hey Rick,
I had a jam session quite sometime ago with Jesus
Turiņo and Pelayo Arrizabalaga in Luzern who did
similar things,picking loops by sticking scotch tape
spontaneously out of old records,really cool and it
was a wonderful night!
http://www.experimentaclub.com/data/pelayo_arrizabalaga/#fot
Luis

--- "loop.pool" <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:

> Interesting snippet of an interview with the avante
> garde turntablist, 
> Christian Marclay
> 
> "PSF: How did you pick out which records would be
> used?
>  CM: They were just thrift store records --I never
> spent more than a dollar 
> on a record. It was just junk, and I would stick
> things on them to MAKE THEM 
> LOOP (sic). I even used an old wind-up gramophone
> that I found in the 
> garbage. It was also at MassArt that I found these
> great turntables 
> (Califone) that I've been using ever since. They
> used to be in every 
> school's audio-visual department for instructional
> presentations. "
> 
> Wonderfully creative and thought provoking
> interview.
> 
> http://www.furious.com/perfect/christianmarclay.html
> 
> Does anyone, perchance know if he was the
> experimental turntablist who was 
> featured on that amazing music variety show Night
> Music that David Sanborn 
> hosted in the late 80's-early 90's?
> I saw an artist who used colored wax and multiple
> turntables to create these 
> wonderful and strange looping pieces of music.
> The needle would jump over the was and then loop
> back to it's original 
> position.
> I've been googling for an hour looking for who this
> person was.   Dr. Z. 
> would have emailed me back in 10 minutes if he were
> here with five 
> URLS........ :-(
> Happy Turkey (or Vegan Roll) day everyone!!!
> Rick 
> 
> 


www.luis-angulo.com


                
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