Christian Marclay (born 1955) is a visual artist and musical composer based in New York, who is exploring the pattern languages connecting sound, photography, video, and film. Many times, the term art is used to refer to the visual arts. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ... Official language(s) English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  Ranked 27th  - Total 54,520 sq mi (141,205 km²)  - Width 285 miles (455 km)  - Length 330 miles (530 km)  - % water 13. ...

Marclay uses records and turntables in musical performances, and was one of the earliest and one of the most notable musicians to do so outside a hip hop context - he is "the most influential (turntable) figure outside hip hop." [1] Marclay sometimes manipulates or damages records to produce continuous loops and skips, and has said he generally prefers inexpensive used records purchased at thrift shops. The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour (1967) as a 33 â…“ LP vinyl record A gramophone record (also phonograph record, or simply record) is an analogue sound recording medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed modulated spiral groove starting near the periphery and ending near the centre of the disc. ... Edison cylinder phonograph ca. ... Hip hop music is a style of music which came into existence in the United States during the mid-1970s, and became a large part of modern pop culture during the 1980s. ...

He has performed and recorded both solo and in collaboration with musicians such as John Zorn, William Hooker, Otomo Yoshihide, Butch Morris, members of Sonic Youth and others. John Zorn (born September 2, 1953) is an American composer and saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist. ... William Hooker (born 1946) is a jazz drummer and composer. ... Otomo Yoshihide (大友 良英) (born August 1, 1959) is a Japanese experimental musician. ... Lawrence D. Butch Morris is an American jazz cornetist, composer and conductor, born February 10, 1947 in Long Beach, California. ... Sonic Youth is a rock group formed in New York City in 1981. ...

Thom Jurek writes "many intellectuals have made wild pronouncements about Marclay and his art — and it is art, make no mistake — writing all sorts of blather about how he strips the adult century bare by his cutting up of vinyl records and pasting them together with parts from other vinyl records, they never seem to mention that these sound collages of his are charming, very human, and quite often intentionally hilarious."[2]

Some of Marclay's musical pieces are carefully recorded and edited plunderphonics-style; he is also active in free improvisation. He was filmed performing a duo with erikM for the documentary Scratch. His scene didn't make the final cut, but is included on the DVD extras. Plunderphonics is a term coined by John Oswald in 1985 in an essay entitled Plunderphonics, or Audio Piracy as a Compositional Prerogative. ... Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the taste of the musicians involved, and not in any particular style. ... Scratch is a documentary film directed by Doug Pray about disc jockeys (DJs) and hip-hop culture released in 2001. ...

Marclay is a former lecturer of video collage and sound at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland where he conducted a summer workshop. The European Graduate School (EGS) in Switzerland is a privately funded graduate school founded by the non-profit European Foundation of Interdisciplinary Studies. ... Saas-Fee is a Swiss village and tourism centre in the Saas-Valley in the Wallis mountains. ...

Exhibitions

• Christian Marclay. 1999. Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.
• Pictures at an Exhibition. 1997. Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York (brochure).
• Arranged and Conducted. Kunsthaus, Zurich (catalogue).
• Accompagnement Musical. 1995 Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva.
• Christian Marclay. 1994. daadgalerie, Berlin, Germany; Fri-Art Centre d'art contemporain Kunsthalle, Fribourg (catalogue).
• Christian Marclay. 1993. Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles.
• The Wind Section. 1992. Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris.
• Christian Marclay. 1991. Interim Art, London.
• Directions: Christian Marclay. 1990. Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (brochure).
• Christian Marclay. 1987. The Clocktower, P.S. 1 Museum, New York.

External links

• Christian Marclay Faculty Website European Graduate School
• Christian Marclay: Interview by Jason Gross (March 1998)
• Christian Marclay discography