Christian Marclay

Christian Marclay is a visual artist and musical composer based in New York, who is exploring the pattern languages connecting sound, photography, video, and film.

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Visual art - Composer - New York

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Marclay uses records and turntables in musical performances, and was one of the earliest and one of the most notable musicians to do so outside a hip hop context - he is "the most influential (turntable) figure outside hip hop." http://www.speech.kth.se/~hansen/turntablemusic.pdf Marclay sometimes manipulates or damages records to produce continuous loops and skips, and has said he generally prefers inexpensive used records purchased at thrift shops.

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Record - Turntables - Hip hop

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Some of Marclay's musical pieces are carefully recorded and edited plunderphonics-style; he is also active in free improvisation.

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Plunderphonics - Free improvisation

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He has performed and recorded both solo and in collaboration with musicians such as John Zorn, William Hooker, Otomo Yoshihide, Butch Morris and others.

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John Zorn - William Hooker - Otomo Yoshihide - Butch Morris

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Christian Marclay is a former professor of video collage and sound at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland where he conducts a summer workshop.

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European Graduate School - Saas-Fee - Switzerland

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