Re: [microsound] MUTEK archives on the web

[multsanta <multsanta@xxxxxxxx>]

At 02:22 PM 9/7/00 +1200, you wrote:
> At 21:09 06/09/00 -0400, Alain Mongeau wrote:
>
> > If you can't wait for the next edition of MUTEK, please check out the Media
> > Lounge of the FCMM this year, as it will feature performances by Coldcut,
> > Hexstatic, Light Surgeons, Richard H. Kirk, Thomas Koner, Bob Ostertag
> > (tbc), Comae, El Tractor (Quebec city multimedia band), Montreal's Hautec
> > label artists, Thomas Brinkmann (turntable performance), Pile (multimedia
> > project on the Perlon label), Pole, Burnt Friedman, Jan Jelinek and Visomat
> > (Berlin VJs).
>
> "Turntable performance" might also be called a "DJ set", yes?
>
> Go go gadget marketing! Or perhaps just a really weird distinction, if 
> people honestly believe what Brinkmann does with turntables does not 
> qualify as DJing.

i've never witnessed a brinkmann set, but am i wrong in thinking he is the 
one that utilizes multi-armed turntables to create rhythmic/dubby 
compostions?  if so wouldn't that qualify as a turntable performance? as 
opposed to a dj set, where records are just mixed.  in this day in age the 
turntable is just as valid of an instrument as the piano.  from kid koala 
to marclay to q-bert...  it's a pretty short sighted to think 'that's just 
for playing records.'  in fact, i'm rather surprised to hear such narrow 
minded commentary on a list that bases it's existence on the belief that 
telephone tones and slightly modified sine waves are music. ;-)


later,
andrew

np: beanie sigel