Turntable Drawings is an ongoing series of numbered works by composer Danny Clay and printmaker Jon Fischer based on a growing collection of hand-molded, playable records. Turntable Drawing No. 16 combines three turntables playing locked-groove records with a score for electric guitar featuring looped chordal fragments. The records are encoded with various sounds: some noisy, some melodic, all pretty low in fidelity. After its premiere in June 2017, the work evolved into several distinct versions. Presented here are Danny’s “studio” rendition, consisting of collaged material recorded between September 2018 and April 2020, and Giacomo’s “live” performance, which uses an ad-hoc modular synthesizer patch that loops and processes both record sounds and guitar in real time. Together they offer a pair of perspectives emerging from the same musical framework.
Available exclusively via Bandcamp on digital and 12” vinyl format
Releases August 26, 2022.
“(...) a slow, meditative landscape that blends looped repetition with electrifying narrative. The music is elusive and direct, gently meandering and sharply unpredictable, all at once. It’s a knockout. ”