Marclay: " When the industry comes up with a machine to record something, it has a very specific use, but the artist has always tried to go beyond what the machine was designed for. [...] Moholy-Nagy put the camera aside and started using the medium of photography to make photograms."
Tone "...When Man Ray invented solarization is was a failure in the view of photographic technology, but of course artistically it is much more interesting. Or, musique concrete. As soon as the tape recorded was invented. people like Pierre Schaeffer found that by splicing the tape and changing its order he could get a different sound..."
Marclay: "... I wasn't really interested in making new records, but more in using 'dead' records in a 'live' situation."
(liveness and what it means to perform electronic mediums is still a hotly debated topic)
For next week: