Influenced by the anarchic freedom of punk rock and experimental music, Christian Marclay pioneered the use of records and turntables as media for performance and improvisation. A similar emphasis on sampling informs his work where vinyl records, record covers, magnetic tape and musical instruments are transformed into arresting and highly entertaining collages, sculptures and video installations. In addition to his work as an artist, Marclay is also a prolific musician (and one of the pioneers of turntablism), who has performed internationally with collaborators such as John Zorn, Kronos Quartet and Sonic Youth.

Wednesday Evening Events
All events took place in the gallery on Wednesday evenings and were free to same day exhibition ticket holders.

23 Feb/ 6.30-8pm
The Wire Sound System
DJ duo, The Wire Sound System, affiliated with British music magazine The Wire, transports you to the outer edges of sound though a selection of plunderphonic sounds by artists such as John Oswald, People Like Us, Negativland, Shame 69, Richard X, Jim O’Rourke, John Zorn and, of course, Christian Marclay.

30 March/ 7–8pm
Philip Jeck
A rare chance to catch the experimental turntablist breathing life into his extraordinary orchestra of ageing Dansette phonographs. A close collaborator of Christian Marclay, British sound artist and turntablist Philip Jeck is best known for his installation work 'Vinyl Requiem', a performance for 180 dansette record players, 12 slide projectors and 2 film-projectors. He has also worked extensively with the choreographer Laurie Booth, further explores his experimentation with loops and scratching on record label Touch. Using primarily aging vinyl and vintage Dansette players, Jeck’s methods leave much to chance; nothing is pre-planned or calculated.

20 April/ 7pm
Hayley Newman & Aleks Kolkowski

Hayley Newman, Aleks Kolkowski and special guests invite you to an evening of live record cutting karaoke. Choose from a large selection of popular hits, with live backing from pianist Pete Beresford. Your interpretation of the song will be recorded and cut with a vinyl lathe. Leave the gallery with a true collectors item: a unique 7" of your own performance. Here is a list of the karaoke songs that will be available.

Hayley Newman is a London based artist. An artist with a diverse practice, she has worked with performance, sound, video, text and photography. Her solo exhibitions include 'The Daily Hayley' at Matt's Gallery in London, the IKON Gallery in Birmingham and the Centre d'arte Contemporain, Geneva (2001-3). Publications include Performancemania (Matts 2001), Daily Hayley, Shanghai Week and Chicagoland (all 2004) and Le Notti di Roma (2005). Audio recordings include: Rude Mechanic (1996), Pointy Stunt (2000) and Roundabouts (2002). Her current interest in Rubbernecking describes the act of slowing down, craning the neck and straining to look and involves a series of trips to places reported in the daily news. She is a Senior Lecturer at Chelsea College of Art and Design and recently held the Arts Council of England Helen Chadwick Fellowship at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford.

Aleks Kolkowski lives and works in London. Over the past 20 years he has worked internationally as a violinist solo performer and composer appearing in major festivals worldwide, collaborating with many leading musicians, composers, choreographers and filmmakers. His latest work combines instruments and machines from the pioneering era of sound recording and reproduction (horned violins, wind-up gramophones, shellac discs and wax-cylinder phonographs) to make mechanical-acoustic music. In 2002 he initiated Recording Angels, a series of work that examines our relationships to recorded sound using antiquated home-recording devices such as phonographs and acetate record cutters in performances and installations.