Marina Rosenfeld
// composer & turntablistMARINA ROSENFELD is a composer and turntablist from New York City. “A Water’s Wake” (2003), with Tim Barnes and Toshio Kajiwara, is available from Quakebasket Records, and “Mono – New York Soundtracks” (2004) is available from Human Highway Records. Marina Rosenfeld’s music is also referenced in Thomas Holmes’ book “Electronic And Experimental Music: Pioneers In Technology And Composition” (2002) available from Routledge, and in Andy Hamilton’s book “Aesthetics And Music” (2007) available from Continuum International Publishing Group. An imaginary interview between John Cage and Marina Rosenfeld called “Glitch” appears in John Zorn’s “Arcana II: Musicians On Music” (2007) available from Hips Road.
Website: www.marinarosenfeld.com
Photo: Stefano Giovannini / MarinaRosenfeld.com
Interview:
I have no unassailable idea of what “spiritual significance” is. If the spiritual significance of music is about what “good” music can do or be, as in “what good is that”, and what are the ethics of music; I might not have any answer either. Though I think the opening up of a non-visual regime or domain of experience by ecstatic listening, or ecstatic cognition through listening, is one of the essential things the human being seems to be able to do, and to enjoy doing, and take meaning from doing. We can be ecstatic in our response to music, and we can be reminded of that capacity simply by putting the metaphorical needle on the record.
“We can be ecstatic in our response to music, and we can be reminded of that capacity simply by putting the metaphorical needle on the record.”
– Marina Rosenfeld, composer and turntablist
