Subject: turntables as sound sources Re: fransisco lopez show in Seattle
From: Chris Koenigsberg ckk@ckk.com (ckk@ckk.com)
Date: Tue Dec 19 2000 - 09:58:06 EST
> > I'm shure you know that Pierre Schaeffer used
> > turntables (this means pick-up's I guess!). He worked on plastic
discs
> > and there is yet a while that Pierre Henry mixed live a group of
DJ's.
> >
>
> I think it would help if you could hear examples of the work in
> question. I did not refer to the use of turntables per se, or the use
of
> turntables to play records using DJ techniques. I referred to the use
of
> 'turntables as sound sources'. This means that the machine itself is
a
> sound source, and the needle is applied similarly to a contact
microphone.
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There used to be a weird music group in Pittsburgh, named
"Mikro-Crimefighter and the Undesirables", which used to open up for my
old rock band. Their lead singer ( a very short girl in black leather, I
guess she was the "Mikro" in the group's name :-) played "tapes".
The first time they played with us, we were delighted to find out what
it meant, that she played "tapes" -- she had a big box filled with
cassette tapes, and she would beat on them, with a stick!
Chris Koenigsberg
ckk@ckk.com
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