Christian Marclay
Artist, Visual Artist
1955 –
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Who is Christian Marclay?
Christian Ernest Marclay is a Swiss and American visual artist and composer.
Marclay's work explores connections between sound, noise, photography, video, and film. A pioneer of using gramophone records and turntables as musical instruments to create sound collages, Marclay is, in the words of critic Thom Jurek, perhaps the "unwitting inventor of turntablism." His own use of turntables and records, beginning in the late 1970s, was developed independently of but roughly parallel to hip hop's use of the instrument.
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- Born
- Jan 11, 1955
San Rafael - Also known as
- Marclay, Christian
- Christian Ernest Marclay
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Switzerland
- Profession
- Education
- Massachusetts College of Art
- Cooper Union
- Lived in
- San Rafael
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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