scratches, riffs, music.

GUEST BLOGGER: Filip Gilissen, PERFORMA

Scratch a record and you’re talking hip-hop. Or you’re talking Christian Marclay. Marclay, a visual artist and composer, has been repurposing vinyl and turntables since disco days.

He was in the news recently because his 1995 film Telephones, uh, let’s say inspired Apple’s ad for the new iPhone — in both cases, it’s a montage of actors answering the phone. Telephones is not in the public domain, but you can see a bit of it in this mini-docu on Marclay.

Listen to excerpst of his compositions on Itunes.

Posted by PERFORMA | Wednesday, July 11th, 2007 | Leave a Response

One Response to "scratches, riffs, music."

1. Shane Says:
   July 28th, 2007 at 2:50 pm

   Filip, fun blog post! I like the records that are cut up and physically reassembled. Is that you in the picture?