high art turns the tables

--- In MakeMicroMusic@y..., "D.Stearns" <STEARNS@C...> wrote:

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>
> I think it's probably me who is naive... when I did the Turntable
> Quartet in '86 or '87 I'm sure I'd yet to hear the term
> plunderphonics, and regardless, that was many miles from what I was
> thinking.
>
> I wanted to accomplish a few simple, very focused things with the
> turntables that I couldn't to my satisfaction with any other
> instruments that I had. The turntable and records had their own way
of making strict quodlibet and tight, microtonal shadings sound
> interesting. This sound is totally particular to this process. (The
> quartet was actually a double duet as there were two records that
were doubled to allow for the dimmer switch styled microtonal
splaying. It took about three months of working on it everyday to
finish a roughly ten minute piece.)
>

Just as a little aside, "serioso" turntable art has been a hot item
in New York of late. Randy Woolf, who just won a Guggenheim by the
way, has a new piece for string quartet and DJ... scratching the same
piece that the players are playing in real time...

I hear it was quite a success, although I have not heard the piece...

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Joseph Pehrson