Sorting My Records:
A Power Point Mix about Record Collecting, originally presented at a colloquium in the music department at the University of Hong Kong in October of 2010, is a hybrid presentation that combines the seemingly mundane aspects of power point with relevant sounds, images, and video clips along with live narration.

The model for this hybrid, as noted in its title, is the “mix” or “playlist” of the DJ. Moving at a fast pace, Sorting My Records elicits an information overload that necessitates that the audience pick and choose between the written word, the spoken word, the image (moving or still), or the sound, in essence, giving themselves over to the flow of sound and image as one might do at a concert or in a disco.

Nevertheless, the ostensible topic is instructive, guiding the audience through the psychologies of collecting, the history of recording technologies and their impact on musical culture, with specific reference to Andrew Guthrie's edition “Broken Records: 1960 – 1969” which documents one 45 rpm for each year of that tumultuous decade. This edition will be on sale at all of the scheduled events.

Now, after the successful reception of the initial presentation, Andrew Guthrie has organized a mini-tour for Sorting My Records: A Power Point Mix about Record Collecting with 3 dates and locations spread across diverse regions of Hong Kong in an homage to, and parody of, the D.I.Y. tour of an indie band. The date on Lamma Island will be the culmination of this tour and will include new information related to Reggae’s influence on “remix culture” and the strange confluence of “high” and “low” culture in the continuing ways people consume and produce music.

Lung Kong Restaurant on Saturday April 2 at 5pm
38 G/F Main Street, Yung Shue Wan
Lamma Island

This event is free and open to the public

For more information contact:
Andrew Guthrie
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黑膠碎片: 1960 - 1969是一個獨特的藝術剪輯記錄. 充滿音樂和影像的幻影片以DJ音樂列表的形式, 像播放音樂般地介紹上世紀六十年代的音樂. 從六零年代中篩選的十張黑膠唱片代表不同的年份, 向諸位回顧六零年代中被遺忘或者被忽略的聲音, 以此追憶那段動盪的年代.

講座內容:

- 收藏家對通過收藏而富有象徵意義的物品迷戀的追尋

- 物品並非因為金錢價值而是因為富有收藏家個人色彩變得珍貴

- 收藏家如何對收藏品進行創作改造並因此恢復收藏過程中失去的精力

- 時下唱片的採樣手法, 以及錄音技術的革新如何影響我們消費音樂的習慣

(講座以英語進行) <HR>
Bio for Andrew Guthrie:

Andrew Guthrie is an artist and curator and a part time lecturer at the Hong Kong Art School. In the United States he has exhibited at the Boston Institute for Contemporary Art, The Decordova Museum and The Allston Skirt Gallery. He was awarded a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Photography in 2003.
His artist edition “Broken Records: 1960 -1969” has been collected by The Brooklyn Museum of Art and is available from Printed Matter in New York City. In Hong Kong he has exhibited at The Shanghai Street Artspace, The Artist Commune and Videotage at the Cattle Depot Artist Village, and at Studio Bibliothèque in Fo Tan.

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