Filed under: live reviews | Tags: busratch, christian marclay, erikm, experimental music, ignaz schick, joke lanz, marina rosenfeld, martin tétreault, philip jeck, sudden infant, tito, turntable orchestra
Live at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, October 22-25, 2009.
For curious and trained ears, the TITO project was an unmissable four-day event for experimental sounds in Berlin. It took place at the Akademie der Künste and gathered 16 of the most proficient experimental turntablists in the world: Claus Van Bebber, Maria Chavez, Dieb 13, eriKm, Wolfgang Fuchs, Philip Jeck, Joke Lanz, Katsura Mouri, Martin Ng, Arnaud Rivière, Marina Rosenfeld, Martin Tétreault, Takahiro Yamamoto, Flo Kaufmann, Jan Zimmerman and Ignaz Schick, the initiator of the festival, also running his very active production platform Zangi Music.
The festival opened with all of them standing and performing Christian Marclay’s piece ‘Recording Players’ which presents the life and death of about 30 vinyl LPs. Getting nail-scratched, bent, hit, broken in pieces and finally walked over, the records are used as raw material to produce sounds without any player. This Fluxus-inspired piece whose meaning was to free music from its captivity, has been first performed in 1982, when LPs were the main distributed format. It surely lost some impact since then, but proved a lot of fun to watch as a live performance: you could notice some performers grinning when destruction became a part of the work.
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[...] Zangi Music, it featured some of the best improv/experimental turntablists (see review here) and combined solo, small or large one-off formations, compositions or improvisations: all in four [...]
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