scratchbeck 2005
A turntable performance at „Raum für Kultur” of Dresdner Bank, Frankfurt, Wed. 19.1. 2005
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Starting Lecture
Über „Sinn und Funktion des Plattenspielers in der zeitgenössischen (Club) Musik”
(on concept and function of the turntable in contemporary (club)music)
Abstract
- The origin of turntablism in 70s rap in the New York Bronx. (With some reference to older examples like musique concrete)
- The turntable as loop machine. The beginning of sampling.
- Whom does the turntable belong to? Is it one's own instrument (das eigene Instrument)
- What does „own” mean in relation to an instrument or a turntable?
- Is the turntable really an instrument?
- The turntable as a meta-machine to produce new things from already existing things. Bourriauds concept of „Post-Production”.
- The use of the turntable by conventional DJs and turntable artists.
Audio
- start missing, but better quality scratch_beck_2005a
- the whole performance (42:46min, mp3, 64kbps)
Video
- the first impression, a short MPG movie
Lecture:
- Introduction in German: Über den Plattenspieler
Video Docu
- scratchbeck 01 (2:43 min) Windows Media small | bigger
- scratchbeck 01 (2:43 min) MPEG small
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