Commissioned a series of short audio works by Christian Marclay, a pioneer of the experimental turntable movement, who operates at the intersection of art and music.
Believing that the categories distinguishing ‘serious’ music from its opposite are both arbitrary and arcane, the artist presented his collection of over 1200 Christmas records as a publicly accessible archive. Each evening, the display was activated with live performances by the artist and other notable London DJs. Short audio snippets were subsequently extracted from recordings of those live sets and distributed explicitly for sampling, re-use and remixing.
Performed live at Tate Modern and distributed via Tate Online 2004