Recycled Records

work by Marclay

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  • In Christian Marclay

    …extremity of Marclay’s manipulations—for his Recycled Records (1980–86) series, he sliced apart vinyl and reassembled the shards to form new sequences of sound—was considered innovative. As an avant-garde deejay (or “turntablist”) in New York City in the 1980s, he collaborated with such musicians as John Zorn and the band Sonic…

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