Five-Finger Exercise for the Turntable
February 8, 2005
A major music conservatory announces "scratching" in its curriculum, right there with solfege, modal harmony, and analysis of the sonata form.
What does it sound like? Can you hum a few bars? Heeeerrrrrre's 20-year needle-thrasher DJ QBert (Screen Savers video), whose current entrepreneurial project is a portable turntable-mixer set-up he can carry to a beach near you. And sell to others to carry to etc.
An example of Remix as prevailing cultural theme, via Creating Passionate Users. QBert is also the auteur of a graffiti animation movie. Wave Twisters tackles the government conspiracy to suppress hidden hip hop art forms.
I am not surprised. My second son attended Berklee for 3 years; it is the leading commericial music school in the world.
Posted by: Jeffrey Hull | February 08, 2005 at 06:07 PM