Marcel Duchamp meets the Invisibl Skratch Piklz
October 20, 2015 5:54 PM Subscribe
Vinyl Terror & Horror are Camilla Sørensen and Greta Christensen, two Danish DJs now based in Berlin. They are not your average DJ duo.
Records and turntables alike are cut apart, disassembled, melted, altered with materials such as sandpaper and adhesive tape, and reassembled on the fly into astonishing contraptions. This avant-garde approach to the art of DJing combines elements of Dada, chance operations, kinetic sculpture, installation art, and noise music.
Vice writeup.
Live at the Kumu Art Museum, Estonia, 2013.
Records and turntables alike are cut apart, disassembled, melted, altered with materials such as sandpaper and adhesive tape, and reassembled on the fly into astonishing contraptions. This avant-garde approach to the art of DJing combines elements of Dada, chance operations, kinetic sculpture, installation art, and noise music.
Vice writeup.
Live at the Kumu Art Museum, Estonia, 2013.
Whoa; I'd enjoyed Pharmakon's recorded work, but not seen live footage. Her physicality onstage really works with the music. Thanks for the links.
posted by escape from the potato planet at 6:25 PM on October 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by escape from the potato planet at 6:25 PM on October 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
Wonderful! The first video reminds me of Christian Marclay's early work with records, especially 1000 Cycles, only taken to crazy-contraption extremes.
posted by ardgedee at 7:10 PM on October 20, 2015
posted by ardgedee at 7:10 PM on October 20, 2015
More John Cage than Marcel Duchamp. They both probably would have been amused.
posted by crazylegs at 7:39 PM on October 20, 2015
posted by crazylegs at 7:39 PM on October 20, 2015
I like how there are all these different levels. If you know what I mean.
posted by From Bklyn at 11:12 PM on October 20, 2015
posted by From Bklyn at 11:12 PM on October 20, 2015
Oh, I do like this!
posted by comealongpole at 11:34 PM on October 20, 2015
posted by comealongpole at 11:34 PM on October 20, 2015
I can't find the artistry or musicality in this at all.
posted by synthetik at 7:43 AM on October 21, 2015
posted by synthetik at 7:43 AM on October 21, 2015
Wonderful!
I think Nam June Paik probably kicked off this genre/practice/whatever with Random Access Music. Can't think of anything earlier than that, though someone at the Radiophonic Workshop, or the musique concrete types at the GRMC must've used similar techniques?
Also, this made me think of the brilliant Diskono label. They used to release music like this - not as in stuff that sounds like this, actual 7"s with multiple off-centre holes, etched vinyl, records made from other records sliced up and glued back together, &c. I think one release was a paper bag full of broken bits of vinyl and sundry MiniDisc innards.
posted by jack_mo at 8:00 AM on October 21, 2015
The first video reminds me of Christian Marclay's early work with recordsYeah, it's very Marclay-ish - here he is doing very much the same sort of thing, but horizontally.
I think Nam June Paik probably kicked off this genre/practice/whatever with Random Access Music. Can't think of anything earlier than that, though someone at the Radiophonic Workshop, or the musique concrete types at the GRMC must've used similar techniques?
Also, this made me think of the brilliant Diskono label. They used to release music like this - not as in stuff that sounds like this, actual 7"s with multiple off-centre holes, etched vinyl, records made from other records sliced up and glued back together, &c. I think one release was a paper bag full of broken bits of vinyl and sundry MiniDisc innards.
posted by jack_mo at 8:00 AM on October 21, 2015
Superb! Absolutely love this - and, being a bad man, have forwarded it to a couple of my most audiophile OCD purists. Rather puts Aphex Twin's sandpaper trick in context.
I particularly liked the pull back that revealed the arm right at the top of the stack, which promised that there was much more to come but coyly refused to say how much of what for how long was going to come in between.
Noise magnificent. Concept delightful. Executed with aplomb. Top marks.
posted by Devonian at 8:43 AM on October 21, 2015
I particularly liked the pull back that revealed the arm right at the top of the stack, which promised that there was much more to come but coyly refused to say how much of what for how long was going to come in between.
Noise magnificent. Concept delightful. Executed with aplomb. Top marks.
posted by Devonian at 8:43 AM on October 21, 2015
Yeah, I almost went with the Cage reference, but there's an abrasive / punk-rock / fuck-you vibe to this that made me think Duchamp. Cage was happy-go-lucky; Duchamp was darkly sardonic.
jack_mo, I didn't know about Diskono—I absolutely love that.
posted by escape from the potato planet at 9:39 AM on October 21, 2015
jack_mo, I didn't know about Diskono—I absolutely love that.
posted by escape from the potato planet at 9:39 AM on October 21, 2015
synthetik: "I can't find the artistry or musicality in this at all."You have my pity.
posted by brokkr at 11:33 AM on October 21, 2015
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