Otomo Yoshihide: Without Records
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This past summer, Japanese noise artist/turntablist and Ground Zero founding member Otomo Yoshihide collaborated with a group of installation artists at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media for an exhibit called Ensembles (here's an interview with Yoshihide about the show). One of the grooviest pieces in the exhibit was "without records", which filled a room with 100 portable record players and left them running, you know, without records. It's a nice rumination on the loss of vinyl, and the unique sound that turntables have to offer - something that can't be said of digital music.
"hyper wr player - without records hi-fi version" is a similar concept with a uniquely constructed version of the turntable that all DJs know and love.
And here's Yoshihide in action, from the Australian experimental TV series Subsonics .
Previously on Beware of the Blog:
Altered States and Otomo Yoshihide (MP3s)
A taste of the sampledelic Hirose Otomo Duo
Yoshihide's sometime bagpipe collaborator David Watson
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