11/27/2023 0 Comments Christian vinyl records![]() The collages were his favorite medium and they still are. He did exactly the same thing with artwork. In order to interfere with the architecture of the sound, he was breaking records and playing them on turntables, and gluing them together. If the record is a carrier of the sound, the musician is the creator, but once the song is recorded it loses its flexible characteristic. His intention was to develop a more personal relationship with the sound. He performed live, but didn't play any instrument. The result was unpleasant but at the same time quite engaging. ![]() Starting out as a musician in a band Mon Ton Son, he used the turntable as a sound object, where he would break the records and glue them back together, so the needle would play the noise when crossing the cracked and glued area. Always different and always daring, he managed to over cross all the boundaries and to show how differences in experience can bring the ideas together, not separate them away. For Marclay things haven't changed much since he began his career. People tend to experiment and be more resourceful. Pure art, without the ambition of being instantly commercial often reaches its peak in underground contemporary circles at the difficult economic times. He found the best energy in the music and dance clubs 30 years ago, and nowadays the difference between those clubs and galleries is not that big. For Marclay the records are just physical representation of music, whereas the true value is in the soundĬhristian Marclay - 2282 Records, photo credits National Academy Lost in Translation from Noise to Words Some of them like splash, whoosh, swish, slutch, whupp break out the translation process and on the road from auditory to visual to meaning, the noise gets worse, or better, and everything melts down into the disorder and compound of sensory data. Being a bit rebellious at heart, he never follows the instructions, so he plays records from the middle, switches beginnings and ends, breaks the harmony and brings out the noise. The sound is the essence of his creative production, and he spent almost half of his lifetime playing in bands, mixing, experimenting and developing innovative ways to transform the tone. In his video installations, Christian Marclay combines collages, both visual and auditory, used record covers, illustration, and recordings. Resourceful and imaginative, Marclay got the idea of using mixed LP sound, played in a loop in a repetitive manner as a replacement for a missing drummer he never managed to recruit for his band. ![]() The social aspect was very important and it still is for this talented artist, as he tends to use accessible material and many used records which he buys in thrift shops. Some of the artists that inspired him are Joseph Beuys and Yoko Ono, and his journey into the visual and audio art was conceptual and philosophical since the very beginning. During his student days, he started exploring noise music, neo-dada movement, and visual art. Marclay was born in California and he grew up in Switzerland, where he attended the Ecole Supérieure d'Art Visuel in Geneva and later continued his education at the Massachusetts College of Art and Cooper Union in New York. The artist mixes different media and various culture referencesĬhristian Marclay - Cartoonish Action Smak, Squish, Splsh No 2, photo credits Standard UK Shaping the Avantgarde Spirit The artist loves to change the initial purpose and shape of the object, whether that is video, vinyl record or poster, so he could pull out the hidden meaning, or just emphasize the original one. He synchronized time on the clocks and watches on the screen with real time where the film was beeing watched and managed to give the audience the visual experience of such an abstract notion as time. His range of interest expands to more complex notions, and he was praised for his film The Clock where he extrapolated the experience of time, how time is felt and contemplated in the human mind. He works with sound, illustration, photography and video installation. What is unique about this artist is his extraordinary ability to mix different media and various culture references into the rich fusion of qualities that synthesize in the original artistic experience. In his work, music can be both seen and heard. Christian Ernest Marclay plays with perception and human experience of sensory data.
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