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		Handcut Vinyl 2004 vinyl record, felt marker dimensions 12" diameter


	HandCut Vinyl stems from my explorations into medium artefacts. It is a reduction of the Vinyl format into it's most essential elements: a disc, a groove, a stylus, a turntable, an amplifier. Handcut Vinyl can play as a loop, by weighting the turntables tonearm sufficiently to lock into a groove. Or as a semi random composition by lightening the tonearm so that it fluctuates between 'skating' across the smooth surfaces of the disc and being locked into the handcut grooves. Handcut Vinyl was made using sewing needles and steak knives to texture smooth 12" vinyl discs. The sound emanating from the disc is a direct transference of my gestural markings on the record surface. After digitally sampling and composing with Vinyl crackle HandCut Vinyl was the logical evolution of the process. Vinyl as a format is interesting as a medium in that it was viewed as a 'dead medium' for quite some time but the recent resurgence of dj and club culture has returned it to the forefront of medium specificity to the point where electronic musicians' work will possibly go unplayed by dj's unless it is released on Vinyl. It has become a fetishised format. These explorations were informed in part by the works shown at 2003 Sound Summit 'Strange Dj's' conference and the tri-arm turntable works created by Janek Schaeffer.

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