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Date sent:      	Sat, 29 Jun 2002 21:58:43 -0700
From:           	David Cotner <info@...>
To:             	"A. I." <info@...>
Subject:        	Turnament - November 8-9, 2002.

Hello unto you.

     This is the preliminary schedule for Turnament, the turntablist
festival that I'm producing and arranging at Royce Hall, UCLA, November 8
and 9, 2002, in association with the UCLA Performing Arts Department.
     Should you have any questions about Turnament, its installations or
attendant exhibition "Revolutions", please don't hesitate to ask.
     Further bulletins as events warrant.

Thoroughly,

David Cotner,
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http://www.turnament.com/


WILL THEY TURN YOU ON?
WILL THEY TURN ON YOU?
TURNAMENT
A FESTIVAL OF TURNTABLISM
Royce Hall, UCLA, November 8 – 9, 2002

Exposing the Secrets of People Whose Business is Revolution!


WHAT:   Turnament: part skratch DJs, part modern art, part hip and / or
hop – the common thread?  Visionary musicians using turntables and records
as instruments in ways you’d never dream possible.  We won’t sell you the
whole seat – you’ll only need...the edge!

WHO:     We are proud to announce the partial lineup of performers for
Friday, November 8th

? amk – Los Angeles
? The Haters – San Francisco
? Kid Koala – Montreal
? Kool Herc – New York City
? Dummy Run – Brighton / Paris
? Boyd Rice – Denver
? Extended Organ – Los Angeles
? DJ Faust & Shortee – Atlanta

? Your DJs are Baseck & Daedelus (Los Angeles) and L?K?O (Tokyo).

and Saturday, November 9th.  More to be announced in the coming weeks!

? DJ Smallcock – Sydney
? Grandmixer DXT – New York City
? Ace & Duce – Los Angeles
? KutMasta Kurt – Los Angeles
? John Oswald – Toronto
? A. Stray & DJ Nightmare – Cambridge, England
? GrandWizzard Theodore – New York City
? Project Dark – London

? Your DJs are Skam (Manchester) and John Peel (London – first-ever U.S.
festival appearance).

Turntable installations, and others, from November 8th through November
9th, by

? DJ I, Robot – Cambridge, Massachusetts
? Evil Moisture – Paris
? Philip Jeck – Liverpool
? Pure – Vienna
? VinylVideo – Vienna
? David Woodard – Los Angeles – exposition of the Brion Gysin
Dreamachine

WHEN:   Friday, November 8th, 2002, and Saturday, November 9th, 2002.
Doors open at 7 PM.  Live action at 8 PM.

WHERE:   Royce Hall, on the University of California at Los Angeles
campus in Westwood.  Visit
http://www.cfpa.ucla.edu/event_calendar/events_detail.cfm?id_event=1695526
6 or  http://www.turnament.com/ for full information.  Tickets are $50 per
evening, $20 for UCLA students.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

? amk – Master of the flexidisc record collage and montage.  Flexidiscs
are cut up, re-assembled and played on old record players at different
speeds.  Beyond belief!

? The Haters – G.X. Jupitter-Larsen et al, exploring entropy as a
neutral force of nature.  Their first release, "The Haters", involved the
recommended scratching of a blank LP in order to play it; recent work
includes the stapling of LPs with amplified staple-guns.

? Kid Koala – Eric San, Montreal's finest, in an action showcasing the
latest ninja tunes from his arsenal of scratch mastery that tamed the wild
beat.

? A. Stray & DJ Nightmare – The London Musicians' Collective contingent,
Alistair Stray and Robert Johnson pioneered "Deconstructed Cinema" in the
1990s.  Their DJ'd cinema screenings made chillout rooms of the time even
more icebox than usual.

? Kool Herc – Clive Campbell, the founding father of modern hip-hop
DJing, emigrated from Kingston, Jamaica in 1967 to bring the beats and
breaks to Brooklyn and beyond.

? Dummy Run – Nick Birmingham and Andrew Sharpley, self-professed
"cartoon rhythm duo", wield drum'n'bass beats and saucy, sassy samples
that more closely approximate the mind of mad (but not angry) genius than
any other in their weight class.

? Boyd Rice – Via the nom de guerre Non, this founding father of
industrial music released the "Knife Ladder / Mode of Infection" in 1977
with multiple holes in its centre and various locked grooves to create the
longest-playing record of all time.

? Extended Organ – Paul McCarthy, Fredrik Nilsen, Joe Potts and Tom
Recchion.  From the Los Angeles Free Music Society to modern art and
beyond.  Expect drones, a chopped Optigan and an atmosphere hanging like a
heavy coat of inspiration.

? DJ Faust & Shortee – Modern lovers Faust and Shortee pursued a
whirlwind romance with the passion of a perfect pop single and all the
love it implies.  They'll be performing old school hip-hop and rare breaks
with a special showcase of tricks all on 4 turntables.

? Baseck & Daedelus – Los Angeles' ambassadors of breakcore and the
syncopated slaughter of a million buzz-bombing robotic bees in 17/32. In
the foyer, to aid digestion.

? L?K?O – Tokyo's Ko Mitsugi arrives with his own brand of DJing,
utilising a laptop to fuse PC plug-in effects with scratching.  Omedeto,
Mitsugi-san!  Also in the foyer.

? DJ Smallcock – Lucas Abela, traveling all the way from Sydney,
Australia, performs a short, improvised physical blurt of sound with a
sawing machine engine (top speed: 2580 rpm) onto which are bolted a series
of 7", 10", and 12" records.  It's played with various implements – this
time, it's the Elm St. Freddy-type glove with styli attached to each
finger.  Look out!

? Grandmixer DXT – Formerly known as GrandMixer D.ST, DXT was an
original Zulu Nation DJ in the South Bronx during the late 1970s and
early 1980s.  He performed solo scratches on Herbie Hancock's hit
instrumental "Rockit" in 1984.  That performance, seen by millions on The
Grammy Awards, inspired a whole generation of DJs.

? Ace & Duce – Dennis Duck, Ace Farren Ford, Tom Recchion, Richard
Snyder and the elusive Duce.  The founders of the Los Angeles Free Music
Society ride again, out of nowhere and straight back again, for only the
second time in a quarter-century.

? KutMasta Kurt – Producer of records by DJ Spooky, Dilated Peoples, and
Kool Keith, his is the fertile hand behind countless remixes and singles
in your collection.

? John Oswald – Tireless examiner of art and commerce and a damned good
sax player, too.  In 1990, Oswald's notorious recording "Plunderphonic"
was destroyed by those in the Recording Industry representing Michael
Jackson because of massive sample attacks on a man who has since become
the visual equivalent of an Oswald piece.

? GrandWizzard Theodore – Theodore Livingston, hassled by his mother as he
DJs at home in the summer of 1975, balances the wheels of steel throughout
this momentary storm and thereby creates the "scratch". Parents just don't
understand!

? Project Dark – Producers of large-scale live video / music shows since
1995.  A catalogue of custom sculpted 7" singles is used as a primary
medium for generating a unique range of sounds and images.  Live video
triggering supplies further live sound and video sources allowing
additional footage (slow motion exploding decks, a 10,000-volt
spark-generating record player) to be mixed with live images.  The latest
show, "Gramophone De Luxe" incorporates three gramophone DJs alongside
giant video projections generated by robotic surveillance cameras and
drum-triggered video.

? Skam – Rob Hall and Mike Williamson, direct from Manchester with
painfully obscure blasts of rhythm and melody to the foyer and / or yr
ass.  Consult your physician.

? John Peel – First-ever U.S. DJ appearance of BBC Radio 1's 40-year+
strong living legend, modest enough even to argue about the
characterisation “living”.  He can play whatever he likes.  Please don’t
expect him to "scratch" – you will be turned away!

Turntable installations, and others, from November 8th through November
9th, by

? DJ I, Robot – Chris Csikszentmihályi and assistants, bringing the DJ I,
Robot cybernetic system that plays records at 800 rpm and otherwise freaks
Technics™.

? Evil Moisture – British expatriate, inventor of the amplified golf
ball and the developer of the first Fisher-Price™ record player ever to
spin a load of cream cheese.

? Philip Jeck – Working with old records and record players salvaged
from junk shops, turning them to his own purposes, he really does play
them as musical instruments, creating an intensely personal language that
evolves with each added part of a record.

? Pure – Part of Austria's Mego Records braintrust, Peter Votava uses
run-out grooves – the end of vinyl – to create vast soundscapes spiraling
out the very heart of a record.

? VinylVideo – Gebhard Sengmüller and Martin Diamant present
VinylVideo™, a new development in the history of audio-visual media.
VinylVideo™ makes possible the storage of video (moving image plus
sound) on analog LP records.  In its combination of analog and digital,
VinylVideo™ is a relic of fake media archeology; at the same time,
VinylVideo™ is a vision of new live video mixing possibilities.

? David Woodard – Lecture and exposition of the Brion Gysin Dreamachine,
the first device in history to be looked at with eyes closed.  The
Dreamachine consists of a perforated cardboard cylinder attached to a
turntable, in the middle of which hangs a 100-watt light bulb.  When the
machine is turned on, the cylinder spins at 78 RPM.  One sits in front of
the cylinder with eyes shut, and the light reflects through the
perforations in the spinning cylinder onto one's eyelids.  The experience
begins with 15 to 20 minutes of what visually approximates a perpetually
metamorphosing Persian rug.  As the color spectrum broadens, the
symmetrical patterns grow increasingly intricate...

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