Where Can I Find Djs to Buy My Art
Published on
January 22, 2014
Category
Features
Share
How do yous go nearly soundtracking an art exhibition?
Despite their obvious overlaps, music and art are non e'er the about comfy of bedfellows. Every bit audio artist Haroon Mirza told the states last year in conversation with Django Django'due south Dave McLean, music played in a gallery can utterly alter its reception and its significant. By the aforementioned token, when Warp Records invited a scattering of precocious producers to soundtrack a series of audio/visual installations at Tate Britain for an ambitious evening spent grappling with the finer points of the acid house/pre-Raphaelite crossover, the music radically shifted the style in which some of the most well-known paintings were appreciated.
Finding a balance between the ii, The Vinyl Manufacturing plant take teamed up with Something In The Cranium to explore the sensitive art of curating music for an art gallery, with 8 DJs and producers explaining their choices in response to a serial of fine pencil portraits.
Edited by Cedric Bardawil
Something in the Attic is pop-up gallery established in 2012 to provide an alternative to traditional fine art exhibitions by showcasing emerging talent in anarchistic spaces and combining visual fine art with music. Founder, Cedric Bardawil explains that from inception, music was the differentiating gene for their exhibitions. For their latest show Dorsum to Forepart he carefully selected eight unlike DJs/producers to playlist for the gallery and respond musically to the series of drawings on brandish by Nettie Wakefield (b. 1987) and Ed Haslam (b. 1988). The selectors were briefed to create a sound that would complement the artwork rather than distract from it: for the most office without a stiff beat or vocals. Due to the calibration of the projection (8 hours of music per DJ) the sound was created by programming albums, treating them as individual tracks so they led upward to one another. For this feature we have asked each DJ to select one album that was representative of their playlist, with some background on why the album was chosen.
Andrew Ashong (Sound Signature) chose:
Bill Lee
She's Gotta Take It OST
(Isle Records, 1986)
The Original Motion Pic Soundtrack to Spike Lee's She'southward Gotta Have It is a favourite of Andrew'southward. He explains: "Director Spike's father, Bill Lee, a prolific bassist and composer, delivered this body of work with what sounds like swell love and sincerity. Just like the artwork on display, this very graceful modal jazz soundtrack remains aware of tradition without e'er feeling dated or tired in any manner. Understated and never over-indulgent, the tracks here are surprisingly concise, frustratingly short maybe, but satisfyingly sweet all the aforementioned."
Mind Here.
Mark GV Taylor (BBE Records) chose:
Luc Cousineau
Luc Cousineau
(Airedale Records, 1976)
Luc Cousineau originates from Montreal, Quebec. He had success at abode in Canada in the early on 1970s as the duet 'Les Alexandrins' where he sung alongside his girlfriend Lise Vachon, who later became his married woman. In 1976 he released his starting time album under his ain name, and created his own record characterization called Airedale Records. This LP incorporates jazz, bossa, prog & pop perfectly! Marker explains that listening to the tracks "Valse D'La Baie James" and "La Premiere Fois" highlight why this album was chosen for the gallery.
Listen HERE.
Alex Black (John Peel Annal) chose:
Robbie Basho
Visions of the Country
(Windham Loma Records, 1978)
Robbie Basho'south Visions of the Country brings back memories of hazy bus rides and belatedly nights in Croatia where Alex starting time discovered this LP several years ago. He explains: "Luckily late last twelvemonth Gnome Life records acquired the primary tapes and have put together an excellent reissue. Equally with the best LPs this has to exist listened to in its entirety to be appreciated. It's melancholy, uplifting and spiritual in equal measure."
Mind Here.
Nick Hadfield (WHO Records) chose:
Alain Goraguer
J'Irai Cracher Sur Vos Tombes
(Phillips, 1959)
Nick recently got into French jazz musician Alain Goraguer through his incredible futuristic jazz funk soundtrack for Le Planete Sauvage which he says "is a picayune too out there for a gallery setting". Nevertheless the soundtrack Goraguer produced for J'Irai Cracher Sur Vos Tombes is more than traditional, a 1950s sleazy film noir jazz that he felt worked with the art on display.
Mind Hither.
Cedric Bardawil (Something in the Attic) chose:
Smith & Mudd
Le Suivant
(Claremont 56, 2009)
Cedric felt the British duo, Smith & Mudd's anthology Le Suivant complimented the aesthetics of the art on display, it brings together quondam and new: you can hear Ashra-similar guitar strings synonymous of the 1970s laid over a modern bassline. The album drifts from ambience sounds to a subtle groove. He explains: "there is also an analogy to be drawn between the traditional draftsmanship of Nettie and Ed'southward drawings and the product of this album".
Listen Here.
Gatto Fritto (International Feel) chose:
James Blackshaw
O True Believers
(Bo'Weavil Recordings, 2006)
James Blackshaw'southward LP O' True Believers is one of Ben'southward (Gatto Fritto) favourite records and features the epic runway Transient Life in Twilight. He describes it equally "hypnotic, melodic, meditative and cute" and for those reasons is what he would like to hear in a gallery setting, where visitors are able to appreciate an fine art form without unnecessary distractions.
Listen HERE.
David McFarline (Noncollective) chose:
Vangelis Katsoulis
Minimal Accommodate Double Prototype
(Praxis, 1986)
David first came across the work of Katsoulis on the Into The Light Record'southward start compilation Into The Light: A Journey Into Greek Electronic Music, Classics & Rarities (1978 – 1991). Tako Reyenga (Red Light Records) later on introduced David to other records past Katsoulis who was won over by the King of Greek Electronics. His ambient and new age compositions from the late 1980'southward are shortly to exist reissued on Vangelis Katsoulis – The Sleeping Beauties.
Listen Hither.
James Cooper (ReviveHER) chose:
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
Trout Mask Replica
(Directly, 1969)
An ingenious album and evolutionary slice of lyrical and musical writing that shocked and disappointed most when it came out, only to be worshipped and fully appreciated in retrospect. James explains: "The band was locked in a house in Cucamonga for 9 months to write the album, merely ane person was allowed out each day to go the groceries and at this point they were in such belief that they were able to survive with little to nothing. Zappa visited to produce and record the anthology, which was done in 4 hours and i recording!"
Mind Hither.
For more information about Something In The Attic, visit their website.
The Vinyl Factory Newsletter
New releases, VF exclusives, features, films and more.
Source: https://thevinylfactory.com/features/playlisting-the-gallery-8-djs-and-producers-on-the-art-of-soundtracking/
0 Response to "Where Can I Find Djs to Buy My Art"
Post a Comment