On Wed, 5 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This is completely irrelevant, but I thought it was interesting nonetheless. > > While reading through a history of electronic music I found a mention of some > early twentieth century composers, Milhaud and Hindemith, who in the 1920's > were experimenting with variable speed turntables in order to create music. > It seems that the technique reached its peak (I think this book was written > pre hip hop...) in 1939, when John Cage used a number of test tones and other > sounds played on turntables at various speeds to actually make a tune - > Imaginary Landscape No. 1 > > So turntablism and cut up tracks are not exactly new... I have a CD of William Burroughs scratching which was recorded sometime in the fifties!! It is part of a collection of burroughs tape experiments, reversing records, traffic noise, speaking while holding mic to neck etc. etc.
