Re: (idm) Noise Turntablists

From Jon Green
Sent Thu, Oct 16th 1997, 17:31

At 15:20 15/10/97 -0700, Ryan Richard Whitehead wrote:

>many people still feel that putting random before noise is like saying
>VERY two times in a row or like saying bad rap--just an emphasis in case
>you forgot that all rap is bad and all noise is random. 

Noise is random. Music is a (semi)ordered collection of sound.
All this 'deconstruction' business sounds like an excuse for not being able
to (or not bothering to learn) to mix. Beats don't necessarily have to be
matched perfectly but if I'd payed for a DJ that's what I'd want to hear. I
suppose if you're aware of Spooky's style then you'd know what to expect.
Personally I think I'll steer clear of him.  

>i've never seen
>him perform, but i've seen Otomo Yoshihide of Ground Zero and Christian
>Marklay maul needles, break records in half and rub them like
>tablets across the stylus, pick up technics and drop them, slam a
>microphonic guitar down on the platter and watch it lazy susan.. 

I'd have thought that anybody could do this (as long as they could afford
the hardware). It doesn't sound like anything I'd want to listen to. Sounds
more like a visual thing than an aural thing, which is fair enough, I suppose.

Jon



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