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Christian Marclay

Christian Marclay (Born 1955) is active/lives in New York, California / Switzerland.  Christian Marclay is known for Collage, surreal musical instruments, audio art.

An artist exploring sound, photography, video and film, Christian Marclay creates mixed-media pieces and also does performance art using damaged turntable records, items he buys at second-hand shops, to produce sounds of "continuous looks and skips".  (Wikipedia)  In fact, he has made the turntable a musical instrument, something made possible by the quality of Califone turntables.  He also creates sound collages using dozens of vinyl records at a time, cutting them up and reaassembling them.   Sometimes these rearrangements using a wide variety of music result in memories of other tunes.

As a student at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, Marclay was interested in performance art and punk rock, especially the energy of punk rock.  He felt that more energy at that time was generated by the music world than the art world, and when visiting New York, he spent a lot of time in music clubs.

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