kapital & arbeit XXV: djs.
The British “trad jazz” movement of the ’50s. These folks eschewed bop or anything that smacked of “art” in jazz by keeping alive the freewheeling fun and danceability of New Orleans jazz of the ’20s. Problem was they only knew this music through records. Reynolds quotes Hilary Moore that when playing live, the trad jazzers would faithfully mimic the “distorted instrumental balance and faulty intonation” of the music reproduced on vinyl 78s.
It is no coincidence that [in German] the term “plate” is used without any modification and with the same meaning in both photography and phonography. It designates the two-dimensional model of a reality that can be multiplied without limit, displaced both spatially and temporally, and traded on the open market. This, at the price of sacrificing its third dimension: its height and its abyss.
— Adorno, The Form of the Phonograph Record
“YEARS” by Bartholomäus Traubeck.
A record player that plays slices of wood. Modified record player, wood, sleeves. 2011 Thanks to: Pro-ject Audio, Karla Spiluttini, Ivo Francx, Rohol www.traubeck.com
