These turntablists, like their counterparts in rap and electronica, literally make new music from old records by mixing, cutting and altering original recordings, manipulating records by hand to change pitch, to create rhythmic effects and to milk the groove itself for new sounds by "scratching".
From his base on Houston's south side, his method of slowing and manipulating records, a style that came to be known aƒs chopped and screwed — or just screw music — took rap to a state of primordial ooze.
They do not have existing tools for creating and manipulating records, and the tools which are written are often an order of magnitude slower than what an optimized program can achive.
Krulwich brings his affinity for sound effects, dramatizations and a narrative style reminiscent of great children's literature together with Abumrad's experiments in manipulating recorded speech to emphasize ideas and to break through media clutter.
Not only did we see new ways to control sound, now possible without even touching anything, but we witnessed new ways of creating and manipulating recorded sounds that we never imagined could be processed into music.
For Ally Mobbs, an artist from Kyoto-by-way-of-England, her newest exhibition Turntablism For The Hard Of Hearing: Harmonic Motion takes the pure definition of "turntablism"—manipulating recording sound using direct drive turntables to create evolving images.
Distinctly a byproduct of Pierre Henry and Pierre Schaeffer's musique concrète, and incorporating substantial influence from the early works of experimental composer John Cage, electroacoustic music is an avant-garde technique that manipulates recorded or generated sound.
"We might think you could just make a fake card or manipulate the records — no big deal," Li said.
We find that teachers manipulate students' records, altering the incentives to attend school.
