It was a real pleasure having Martin and Maria come to perform for the first Turntable Music Night at STEIM. It was sort of an amazing experience at dinner before the show to sit down with 2 other experimental turntablists and talk about turntable stuff. All three performers had distinct styles and unique approaches to the instrument and medium. The trio session we did at the end came out quite nice and I hope there will be more meetings like this in the future.

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It has always been my dream to organize a concert series featuring only turntable musicians. Naturally, such an event at STEIM would be in the context of experimental/electro-acoustic/improvised music with more crackles and hisses than scratches and cuts. However, I hope not to only invite artist from this particular genre because if one can characterize STEIM as a center for artist driven technology, then Grandmaster Flash (one of my personal heros) who opened his DJ mixer and added a headphone pre-amp to realize a revolutionary technique in Hip-Hop music and the Jamaican Dub selectors who built their own studios and sound systems with little resources are equally in the context of STEIM. I believe that turntable music embodies an important lineage and inspiration for artists who seek an expressional voice with technology.

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