Von: Steffens, Jochen via ak discourse
Datum: Sat, 15 Dec 2018
Betreff: [ak-discourse] Forschungskolloquium über Experimental Turntablism
Liebe Kollegen und Studierende, liebe Interessenten an Veranstaltungen am Fachgebiet Audiokommunikation,
zum letzten Mal in diesem Jahr möchte ich Sie zu unserem Forschungskolloquium am kommenden Dienstag, 18.12., um 16.15Uhr im Raum E-N 324 einladen. Diesmal haben wir wieder einen Gastvortrag, und zwar wird Karin Weissenbrunner von der City, University of London ihre Doktorarbeit zum Thema „Experimental Turntablism – Live Performances with Second Hand Technology – Analysis and Methodological Considerations “ vorstellen. Der Vortrag wird in englischer Sprache gehalten, und eine Kurzzusammenfassung darüber finden Sie am Ende dieser E-Mail.
Wir freuen uns diesmal wieder ganz besonders auf Ihr Kommen.
Herzliche Grüße und Ihnen allen ein schönes drittes Adventswochenende
Jochen Steffens
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PD Dr. Jochen Steffens
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Fachgebiet Audiokommunikation (Sekr. EN-8)
Technische Universität Berlin
Einsteinufer 17c
10587 Berlin
Büro: +49 30 314 29161
In experimental turntablism practices, sound artists and musicians encounter not only the pre-recorded sound of the vinyl records, as is common in DJ culture and hip hop turntablism, but also accentuate the materiality of the records and turntables themselves. As a post-digital tendency, contemporary musicians using live electronics seek to recover tactile and physical actions in performance. This thesis shows the ways in which the turntable and vinyl records allow artists to emphasise specific sensual-bodily aspects with electronic devices and to develop personal instruments from ready-made products. As I argue, the record player is itself the key concept within which each experimental turntablist unfolds an intricate dialogue between mediality and materiality. Through these media-specific practices, these sound artists raise to the surface the fact that our listening habits tend to dissolve the reproduction medium from our awareness. The thesis explores experimental turntablism in live performance and presents an innovative methodology that establishes the ideas and tools for a potentially generalisable approach to performance analysis for concerts using live electronics. The analytical framework, disclosing the medial and sensual significance of experimental turntablism performances in a digital era, broadens the perspective on sound with theories of performativity, materiality, mediality and instrumentality. The thesis methodology includes performance analysis, artist interviews, video and audio recordings and interactive graphical transcriptions based on the current music analysis software EAnalysis. Three case studies examine three distinct artistic approaches: the specific focus of each experimental turntablist varies from playing techniques, to sculptural objects, to mechanical operations.