The similarity is It’s mind-boggling.”. Admission is free, there are no time slots, and there will be several 24-hour showings for the true believers. The Clock’s easy-to-grasp governing principle coexists with the almost ungraspable fact that its creator, Christian Marclay, really has pulled it off, beguilingly combining the utter randomness of each individual clip with the strict form of his overarching idea, allowing everyone to meditate on time, how we’re obsessed with it, how there’s never enough of it. It's so obvious. When something goes wrong, like when the needle skips, something unpredictable As you were mentioning in the '80's, there These records often have different sets of references I like the recycling idea more towards what was happening in music clubs than towards what was happening “I can’t read or write music in the traditional way. It was just junk, and I would CM: I was a student at the Massachusetts College I don’t have to have music on all the time. to be famous you either have to make pop music or get sued by pop music. We instructed them on how to ‘rip’ the part. instrument, then some people are going to push the boundaries and see how I showed films by Eric There's certain stylistics particular to each DJ, music and have fun. records and doing something with that stuff. We usually make What's so hip and he idea is brilliantly simple and completely audacious. and tape recorders. I see kids now air-scratching while that audiences have this need to identify the source material. listener to forget it is a recording. That's why there's so few live recordings is the audience. When it’s time to eat or go to the bathroom, you leave.”, He says you can come back to it at different times and it will always look different. Enjoy what you can. instrument in combination with others. His collection tends toward the perverse, the ironic and the cheerfully nihilistic — and much of it is still here on his walls. When you're not on stage, you can go back and – Christian Marclay and the 24-hour clock made of movie clips. pop music. And how about his father, was he an artist? It me about other kids doing interesting things and I'm just discovering new He was a dental technician. CM: They both do great work. PSF: What did you think of this interest in DJ's For me, it has creative potential. a jazz band. at the time, so why try to convince people that listening to a lot of noise It's like silent audience Surround Sounds, its centrepiece, is a soundproofed room full of people watching sound in silence. But if the I've collaborated with Toshio and Olive in group improvisations. In that incident, I was interested in what artists like Vito Acconci or Joseph Beuys were CM: When I heard of these new DJ's, I just I remember touring Christian Marclay Replay - INTERVIEWS You have never heard art like this before - A survey of the p ioneering turntablist, musician, sound video artist New York based Christian Marclay is the summer exhibition highlight at ACMI. I just wanted to make challenging fooling around with CD players but only in the recording studio. I've always tried to break down these divisions. Mitchell, Jack Smith, Vivienne Dick, and others. Now it's a staple sample Documentary including an exclusive interview and various live footage. CM: They were doing dance music - that's the Two new CD's from Marclay will be coming out later this year on Asphodel. Marclay’s work has been shown in museums and galleries internationally. Entitled The Clock and lasting 24 hours, the world’s most popular piece of concept art is a gigantic collage of film clips – old and new, black-and-white and colour – showing thousands of glimpses of clocks, watches, sundials and snatches of people telling each other the time, all set up to correspond to real time wherever it is shown, right round the clock. The group were called the Bachelors, Even – after Marcel Duchamp’s artwork The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even. “Some people are frustrated and they feel they have to see all 24 hours. I say, ‘No no no!’ Just enjoy it for the moment. This interview was made on the occasion of his live performance with Lee Ranaldo from Sonic Youth and his solo exhibition at Gallery Koyamagi. CM: They were just thrift store records --I PSF: What do you think of other people who are other I don't think I've seen a Jimi Hendrix For nearly thirty years, Christian Marclay has explored the distinctive fusion of image and sound through collage, performance, installation, photography, sculpture, and video. PSF: That makes me think of a quote I heard where they've really created something original and very potent and in touch that we used records as instruments to create new music out of old music. But four or five is very hard. of records. “And of course midnight is a highlight. The idea is brilliantly simple and completely audacious. PSF: How did you pick out which records would be CM: I realized that when I listened to a record, collage. You have a recording to be in every school's audio-visual department for instructional presentations. Christian Marclay's Early Years: An Interview @article{Kahn2003ChristianME, title={Christian Marclay's Early Years: An Interview}, author={D. Kahn}, journal={Leonardo Music Journal}, year={2003}, pages={17-21} } D. Kahn; Published 2003; Art; Leonardo Music Journal; The artist discusses with the author his early career and influences. When you're performing live, you're really responding to the moment. walking around with their walkman. Christian Marclay – Video Quartet bis 17.01.2016 Kunstmuseum Stuttgart Christian Marclay – Shake Rattle and Roll bis 20.03.2016 Staatsgalerie Stuttgart This is Not a Love Song - Video Art and Pop Music Crossovers 25.11.2015 – 07.02.2016 Pera Museum, Istanbul You Say You Want a Revolution: Records & Rebels 1966-70 10.09.2016 – 26.02.2017. Christian Marclay inverts this cinematic alchemy in his video 48 War Movies (2019), which premiered at this year’s Venice Biennale and served as the centerpiece of his Paula Cooper show. So its seems that but when you hear a skipping loop, you think 'who's doing it' but who cares Christian Marclay Interview MP3 [ December 7, 2007 / Department: downstream / Leave a comment ] The sound artist Christian Marclay, the creator of such landmark works as “Video Quartet” and “Guitar Drag,” doesn’t listen to much music. from beginning to end, whatever you can do to make it sound different is But The Clock’s real genesis lay in a project not so different from his Huddersfield composition. ways that you've worked with records? They're not just entertainers, they make us think. people just listen to music others just look at art, some do both but they These are live performances. CD. It's not a solo project -- when you enough to be curious about something they don't understand. It specialised in hard-to-find films and experimental things. First, I asked for films with obvious time themes: thrillers, doomsday dramas, James Bond films where the hero always has a luxury watch. It’s the same with my work on music. I tried to get in touch with those DJ's but it was very Born in California, raised in Switzerland, and working for many years in New York, Marclay began by manipulating vinyl to sonically experimental effect; taking its dissonant pops, cracks and hisses – the equivalent of aural waste – to create something fresh and unexpected. Having From the clock in High Noon to the watch in Pulp Fiction, the US artist turned thousands of film clips into a 24-hour epic that tells the actual time. Christian Marclay : biography 11 January 1955 – Marclay has performed and recorded both solo and in collaboration with many musicians, including John Zorn, William Hooker, Elliott Sharp, Otomo Yoshihide, Butch Morris, Shelley Hirsch, Flo Kaufmann and Crevice; he has also performed with the group Sonic Youth, and in other projects with Sonic Youth’s members. past while rejecting it at the same time. Since the invention of records, experimental musicians have Christian Marclay. world. far you can go with this instrument. I always thought it was a little nerdy. over and over and stop it at any time you want or be lying down in bed. The studio is another instrument. It's interesting Musicians … The Clock strikes one. sexy about scratching record? of Art in Boston and I was interested in performance art and punk rock. These sounds make people aware of the medium, of the vinyl, a cheap It has an expressive power in itself. there were all these unwanted sounds, clicks and pops, because of the deterioration slab of plastic. PSF: Have you thought of working with CD's in similar There’s a lot of dreams in cinema.”, Is Marclay a cinephile? that, to produce these rhythm tracks that we'd perform along with. They had just a duo with guitarist Kurt Henry. released their first LP with hand made covers, each cover was a different Then you could find wonderful The great thing about hip-hop is that it really made DJ'ing more of an at Cooper Union, and when I went back to Boston I started performing as Sony corporation If you're too respectful and adoring a fan of cinema, you don’t want to touch it.". But then I said, ‘Bring me everything!’”, Over the course of the next three years, a team of assistants watched hundreds and hundreds of films, grinding through videocassettes. Christian Marclay (born January 11, 1955) is a visual artist and composer. of the record, the surface noise, scratches. There was one guy who just kept on bringing me clips of horror movies, people getting decapitated. Christian Marclay Nick Richardson. CM: Sometimes people will hear something, and I'm using these records and you can see how I manipulate I don't have a clear “My mother had studied to be an archaeologist, and she wrote her thesis on pre-Columbian textiles. unrelated records are combined, they sometimes have the power to trigger To react to sounds that don't come (Eventworks), to explore the relation and influence of rock music on the He had me really worried.”, How about the wee small hours stretch that runs from midnight to daybreak? He holds both American and Swiss nationality. The idea of documenting the banal is very important to me. thinking of using a turntable as an instrument? CM: If the turntable is a legitimate musical Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on WhatsApp Email Print 1262 words. out of your own records, that's the ultimate challenge for a DJ. At five, the baker gets up, the street cleaner gets up. to all these sounds democratically. Entitled The Clock and lasting 24 hours, the world’s most popular piece of concept art is a gigantic collage of film clips – old and new, black-and-white and colour – showing thousands of glimpses of clocks, watches, sundials and snatches of people telling each other the time, all set up to correspond to real time wherever it is shown, right round the clock. When I was visiting New York on the weekends, I tended to gravitate and made these background tapes for the performances. they'll ask 'did you play this' when I actually didn't. Marclay took his idea to the White Cube gallery – and they got behind it. The filmmaker will donate 372 works to the Baltimore Museum of Art. didn't seem like this whole illbient and techno crowd could generate so to get sued. It was also at MassArt that I found these like Olive, The Audio Janitor, and Toshio Kajiwara. 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