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Video Quartet
Video Quartet is a 14 minute film made of 600 fragments of Hollywood films playing simultaneously across four screens created by the artist Christian Marclay. The images play in a complex flickering tapestry of contrasts, visual rhymes and associations. Sometimes the images are grouped in themes - a series of CU images of an open mouth - Fay Wray screaming in King Kong; Janet Leigh screaming in Psycho and Marie Callas singing a high note. The soundtack is sampled, remixed and re-created to form a new soundscape.
Notes © Marshall Mateer, for RBCs. Updated February 2004
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Making 'Video Quartet'
Marclay learned and used the auido editing software programme Final Cut Pro and worked on a laptop. "I sat in front of a computer for almost a full year," he said and hand-built a database of clips - e.g.screams, piano playing, singing, gongs, violins, tapdancing).
Greg Allen review, 24 Jan 2003
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Christian Marclay
Christian Marclay is an audio artist who uses multiple disc plays - often from the world of POP and sometimes using discs bought in charity shop buys - scratched, warped, broken platters. He reinvents instruments and sounds and creates recordings, performances and exhibitions.
HipHop without the comforting back beats.
Born 1955, works in USA and Switzerland.
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Listen to the sounds...
...on this excellent flash website
It may take a little time to download - 3092K. (Your PC needs Macromedia Flash)
The website includes short essays on Marclay and his work and has a series of streamed sound files to listen to clips from a variety of his works...
... at the Chicago Museum
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Review
"My work is all about manipulating fragments," Marclay said. "I'm so invested in finding the new narrative that can be created with them. A lot of young artists are interested in pop (music) and how it had to deal with culture outside of the art world. But pop music has never been introduced into the art lexicon. I've always been interested in pop culture objects to use to make art."
Wired News 10 May 2002
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Copyright - Copyleft
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