Call for Contributions
eContact! 14.2 — Turntable
eContact! extends an open call for contributions to an issue focussing on turntable performance practice, coordinated by Guest Editor Ignaz Schick.
Submission deadline: 10 February 2012
Publication: 15 March 2012
Submission Guidelines can be found here.
We encourage authors to take advantage of the online format of the journal to explore the full range of complementary or support materials to complement their contributions: any combination of drawings, scores, technical diagrammes, audio, video and more are very welcome.
This issue aims to reflect the openness, breadth and diversity of the milieu using turntables. Suggestions for themes include (but are not limited) the following ideas and categories:
The “Nuts and Bolts” of Turntable Practice
- Modification, alteration and preparation of the instrument
- Performance objects: common and individual techniques of turntable performance
- Vinyl design, DIY cutting and other performance deconstructivisms
- Use of the turntable without vinyl or records
- On vinyl cutters, turntable design and equipment
“Between the Grooves”: Practice and socio-cultural issues
- Stylistic division and exclusivity vs. integration of genres in the larger milieu of turntable practice
- Visual aspects of turntable performance — instruments and groups
- Plunderphonics, quotation, abstraction… copyright?
- Analogue equipment in a digital era
- Turntable as an instrument of subversion or representative of radicalized culture
- Performance venues and public
Documenting
- Annotated audio / video galleries and documentation of individual and group practices
- Scoring / notation of works for or using the turntable
- Interviews
- Historical overviews and reflections
We welcome contributions on themes not mentioned but which fall within the categories mentioned above, but also invite potential contributors to propose their own categories and ideas!
To state your interest in contributing or for further information, contact Guest Editor Ignaz Schick or Coordinating Editor jef chippewa.
http://zangimusic.de
New and/or unpublished materials are preferred but reprints of previously published materials are also possible (eContact! will credit and link to original publications). The author is responsible for securing all permissions and clearing any copyrights related to the submission.
The inclusion of audio and video support documentation, photos, technical diagrammes and sketches is strongly encouraged. Audio and video examples should be submitted in the highest quality possible.
