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2002-07-01 02:37Albers, Brian [idm] (LA) FW: Turnament - November 8-9, 2002.
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2002-07-01 02:37Albers, Brian>Hello unto you. > > This is the preliminary schedule for Turnament, the turntablist >fest
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[idm] (LA) FW: Turnament - November 8-9, 2002.
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quoted 6 lines Hello unto you.>Hello unto you. > > This is the preliminary schedule for Turnament, the turntablist >festival that I'm producing and arranging at Royce Hall, UCLA, November >8 and 9, 2002, in association with the UCLA Performing Arts Department. > Should you have any questions about Turnament, its installations
or
quoted 51 lines attendant exhibition "Revolutions", please don't hesitate to ask.>attendant exhibition "Revolutions", please don't hesitate to ask. > Further bulletins as events warrant. > >Thoroughly, > >David Cotner, > \\\ > >http://www.turnament.com/ > > >WILL THEY TURN YOU ON? >WILL THEY TURN ON YOU? >TURNAMENT >A FESTIVAL OF TURNTABLISM >Royce Hall, UCLA, November 8 - 9, 2002 > >Exposing the Secrets of People Whose Business is Revolution! > > >WHAT: Turnament: part skratch DJs, part modern art, part hip and / or >hop - the common thread? Visionary musicians using turntables and >records as instruments in ways you'd never dream possible. We won't >sell you the whole seat - you'll only need...the edge! > >WHO: We are proud to announce the partial lineup of performers for >Friday, November 8th > >? amk - Los Angeles >? The Haters - San Francisco >? Kid Koala - Montreal >? Kool Herc - New York City >? Dummy Run - Brighton / Paris >? Boyd Rice - Denver >? Extended Organ - Los Angeles >? DJ Faust & Shortee - Atlanta > >? Your DJs are Baseck & Daedelus (Los Angeles) and L?K?O (Tokyo). > >and Saturday, November 9th. More to be announced in the coming weeks! > >? DJ Smallcock - Sydney >? Grandmixer DXT - New York City >? Ace & Duce - Los Angeles >? KutMasta Kurt - Los Angeles >? John Oswald - Toronto >? A. Stray & DJ Nightmare - Cambridge, England >? GrandWizzard Theodore - New York City >? Project Dark - London > >? Your DJs are Skam (Manchester) and John Peel (London - first-ever
U.S.
quoted 19 lines festival appearance).>festival appearance). > >Turntable installations, and others, from November 8th through November >9th, by > >? DJ I, Robot - Cambridge, Massachusetts >? Evil Moisture - Paris >? Philip Jeck - Liverpool >? Pure - Vienna >? VinylVideo - Vienna >? David Woodard - Los Angeles - exposition of the Brion Gysin >Dreamachine > >WHEN: Friday, November 8th, 2002, and Saturday, November 9th, 2002. >Doors open at 7 PM. Live action at 8 PM. > >WHERE: Royce Hall, on the University of California at Los Angeles >campus in Westwood. Visit >http://www.cfpa.ucla.edu/event_calendar/events_detail.cfm?id_event=1695
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quoted 1 line or http://www.>or http://www.turnament.com/ for full information. Tickets are $50
per
quoted 18 lines evening, $20 for UCLA students.>evening, $20 for UCLA students. > >ABOUT THE ARTISTS > >? amk - Master of the flexidisc record collage and montage. Flexidiscs >are cut up, re-assembled and played on old record players at different >speeds. Beyond belief! > >? The Haters - G.X. Jupitter-Larsen et al, exploring entropy as a >neutral force of nature. Their first release, "The Haters", involved >the recommended scratching of a blank LP in order to play it; recent >work includes the stapling of LPs with amplified staple-guns. > >? Kid Koala - Eric San, Montreal's finest, in an action showcasing the >latest ninja tunes from his arsenal of scratch mastery that tamed the >wild beat. > >? A. Stray & DJ Nightmare - The London Musicians' Collective
contingent,
quoted 2 lines Alistair Stray and Robert Johnson pioneered "Deconstructed Cinema" in>Alistair Stray and Robert Johnson pioneered "Deconstructed Cinema" in >the 1990s. Their DJ'd cinema screenings made chillout rooms of the
time
quoted 13 lines even more icebox than usual.>even more icebox than usual. > >? Kool Herc - Clive Campbell, the founding father of modern hip-hop >DJing, emigrated from Kingston, Jamaica in 1967 to bring the beats and >breaks to Brooklyn and beyond. > >? Dummy Run - Nick Birmingham and Andrew Sharpley, self-professed >"cartoon rhythm duo", wield drum'n'bass beats and saucy, sassy samples >that more closely approximate the mind of mad (but not angry) genius >than any other in their weight class. > >? Boyd Rice - Via the nom de guerre Non, this founding father of >industrial music released the "Knife Ladder / Mode of Infection" in
1977
quoted 6 lines with multiple holes in its centre and various locked grooves to create>with multiple holes in its centre and various locked grooves to create >the longest-playing record of all time. > >? Extended Organ - Paul McCarthy, Fredrik Nilsen, Joe Potts and Tom >Recchion. From the Los Angeles Free Music Society to modern art and >beyond. Expect drones, a chopped Optigan and an atmosphere hanging
like
quoted 13 lines a heavy coat of inspiration.>a heavy coat of inspiration. > >? DJ Faust & Shortee - Modern lovers Faust and Shortee pursued a >whirlwind romance with the passion of a perfect pop single and all the >love it implies. They'll be performing old school hip-hop and rare >breaks with a special showcase of tricks all on 4 turntables. > >? Baseck & Daedelus - Los Angeles' ambassadors of breakcore and the >syncopated slaughter of a million buzz-bombing robotic bees in 17/32. >In the foyer, to aid digestion. > >? L?K?O - Tokyo's Ko Mitsugi arrives with his own brand of DJing, >utilising a laptop to fuse PC plug-in effects with scratching.
Omedeto,
quoted 6 lines Mitsugi-san! Also in the foyer.>Mitsugi-san! Also in the foyer. > >? DJ Smallcock - Lucas Abela, traveling all the way from Sydney, >Australia, performs a short, improvised physical blurt of sound with a >sawing machine engine (top speed: 2580 rpm) onto which are bolted a >series of 7", 10", and 12" records. It's played with various
implements
quoted 11 lines - this time, it's the Elm St. Freddy-type glove with styli attached to>- this time, it's the Elm St. Freddy-type glove with styli attached to >each finger. Look out! > >? Grandmixer DXT - Formerly known as GrandMixer D.ST, DXT was an >original Zulu Nation DJ in the South Bronx during the late 1970s and >early 1980s. He performed solo scratches on Herbie Hancock's hit >instrumental "Rockit" in 1984. That performance, seen by millions on >The Grammy Awards, inspired a whole generation of DJs. > >? Ace & Duce - Dennis Duck, Ace Farren Ford, Tom Recchion, Richard >Snyder and the elusive Duce. The founders of the Los Angeles Free
Music
quoted 1 line Society ride again, out of nowhere and straight back again, for only>Society ride again, out of nowhere and straight back again, for only
the
quoted 3 lines second time in a quarter-century.>second time in a quarter-century. > >? KutMasta Kurt - Producer of records by DJ Spooky, Dilated Peoples,
and
quoted 1 line Kool Keith, his is the fertile hand behind countless remixes and>Kool Keith, his is the fertile hand behind countless remixes and
singles
quoted 14 lines in your collection.>in your collection. > >? John Oswald - Tireless examiner of art and commerce and a damned good >sax player, too. In 1990, Oswald's notorious recording "Plunderphonic" >was destroyed by those in the Recording Industry representing Michael >Jackson because of massive sample attacks on a man who has since become >the visual equivalent of an Oswald piece. > >? GrandWizzard Theodore - Theodore Livingston, hassled by his mother as >he DJs at home in the summer of 1975, balances the wheels of steel >throughout this momentary storm and thereby creates the "scratch". >Parents just don't understand! > >? Project Dark - Producers of large-scale live video / music shows
since
quoted 16 lines 1995. A catalogue of custom sculpted 7" singles is used as a primary>1995. A catalogue of custom sculpted 7" singles is used as a primary >medium for generating a unique range of sounds and images. Live video >triggering supplies further live sound and video sources allowing >additional footage (slow motion exploding decks, a 10,000-volt >spark-generating record player) to be mixed with live images. The >latest show, "Gramophone De Luxe" incorporates three gramophone DJs >alongside giant video projections generated by robotic surveillance >cameras and drum-triggered video. > >? Skam - Rob Hall and Mike Williamson, direct from Manchester with >painfully obscure blasts of rhythm and melody to the foyer and / or yr >ass. Consult your physician. > >? John Peel - First-ever U.S. DJ appearance of BBC Radio 1's 40-year+ >strong living legend, modest enough even to argue about the >characterisation "living". He can play whatever he likes. Please
don't
quoted 30 lines expect him to "scratch" - you will be turned away!>expect him to "scratch" - you will be turned away! > >Turntable installations, and others, from November 8th through November >9th, by > >? DJ I, Robot - Chris Csikszentmihályi and assistants, bringing the DJ >I, Robot cybernetic system that plays records at 800 rpm and otherwise >freaks Technics(tm). > >? Evil Moisture - British expatriate, inventor of the amplified golf >ball and the developer of the first Fisher-Price(tm) record player ever to >spin a load of cream cheese. > >? Philip Jeck - Working with old records and record players salvaged >from junk shops, turning them to his own purposes, he really does play >them as musical instruments, creating an intensely personal language >that evolves with each added part of a record. > >? Pure - Part of Austria's Mego Records braintrust, Peter Votava uses >run-out grooves - the end of vinyl - to create vast soundscapes >spiraling out the very heart of a record. > >? VinylVideo - Gebhard Sengmüller and Martin Diamant present >VinylVideo(tm), a new development in the history of audio-visual media. >VinylVideo(tm) makes possible the storage of video (moving image plus >sound) on analog LP records. In its combination of analog and digital, >VinylVideo(tm) is a relic of fake media archeology; at the same time, >VinylVideo(tm) is a vision of new live video mixing possibilities. > >? David Woodard - Lecture and exposition of the Brion Gysin
Dreamachine,
quoted 3 lines the first device in history to be looked at with eyes closed. The>the first device in history to be looked at with eyes closed. The >Dreamachine consists of a perforated cardboard cylinder attached to a >turntable, in the middle of which hangs a 100-watt light bulb. When
the
quoted 5 lines machine is turned on, the cylinder spins at 78 RPM. One sits in front>machine is turned on, the cylinder spins at 78 RPM. One sits in front >of the cylinder with eyes shut, and the light reflects through the >perforations in the spinning cylinder onto one's eyelids. The >experience begins with 15 to 20 minutes of what visually approximates a >perpetually metamorphosing Persian rug. As the color spectrum
broadens,
quoted 3 lines the symmetrical patterns grow increasingly intricate...>the symmetrical patterns grow increasingly intricate... > ># # #