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California-born, Switzerland-bred and New York-based turntablist
Christian Marclay (1955) "composes", performs and improvises using phonograph records.
He has applied John Cage's indeterminism and, in general, Dadaism's
provocative principles of aesthetic demystification, to the civilization of
recorded music. His music can be just a mechanism for letting a record evolve
a sound over time (typically, by having people somehow degrade its sound), or
it can be a distorted collage of other people's music.
His "recordings" include:
Record Without a Cover (march 1985 - Recycled, 1985), which is exactly that (a record sold with no cover and no jacket, so that it keeps deteriorating after every playing);
the limited-edition (50 copies) Record Without Grooves (Ecart, 1987);
More Encores (may 1988 - No Man's Land, 1989 - ReR, 1997), each of its tracks being made entirely of records by the artist after whom it is titled);
Footsteps (RecRec, 1990), a totally random composition, the outcome of hundreds of people walking on a record;
the Live Improvisations (june 1993 - For 4 Ears, 1994) with Guenter Mueller ;
Records (Atavistic, 1997), which collects rare recordings from 1981-1989;
Moving Parts (Asphodel, 2000), a turntable duo with Otomo Yoshihide;
etc.
Acoustiphobia Vol 1 (january 2000 - Sublingual, 2001) is a live improvisation among Ikue Mori and Christian Marclay and Elliott Sharp.
DJ Trio (november 2003 - Asphodel, 2004) contains improvisations with other turntablists.
Text Of Light (Starlight Furniture, 2004) is a collaboration among
guitarists Alan Licht and
Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo,
turntablists Christian Marclay and
DJ Olive,
drummer William Hooker
and saxophonist Ulrich Krieger.
Guitar Drag (november 1999 - Neon Gallery, 2006) is the soundtrack to a video installation obtained by recording the noise of an electric guitar being dragged around behind a truck.
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