Video scratching is a

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technique used within the

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. It is a variation of the audio editing technique

scratching Scratching, sometimes referred to as scrubbing, is a DJ and turntablist technique of moving a vinyl record back and forth on a turntable to produce percussive or rhythmic sounds. A crossfader on a DJ mixer may be used to fade between two record ...

. It is typically used in either

music videos A music video is a video of variable duration, that integrates a music song or a music album with imagery that is produced for promotional or musical artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a music marketing device ...

or live performances, with one or more individuals manipulating a video sample to make it follow the rhythm of whatever music is playing.

History

Academy Award winning filmmaker

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used the technique in the 1984 music video for "

Close (to the Edit) "Close (to the Edit)" is a single by English avant-garde synth-pop group Art of Noise, released on various formats in October 1984. It was closely related to their earlier single (and hip hop club hit) "Beat Box", though the two tracks were deve ...

" by

The Art of Noise Art of Noise (also The Art of Noise) were an English avant-garde synth-pop group formed in early 1983 by engineer/producer Gary Langan and programmer J. J. Jeczalik, along with keyboardist/arranger Anne Dudley, producer Trevor Horn, and music ...

. The video would go on to win two 1985

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: Best Editing and Most Experimental Video. The British art collective Gorilla Tapes, comprising

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, Tim Morrison and Jon Dovey, developed a body of scratch video art work, also to much critical acclaim, during the early to mid-1980s. Their seminal 1984 work

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reflects upon the stifling atmosphere of the

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years and has been exhibited at a number of prestigious venues including

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where one of the video's fours sections entitled Commander in Chief was included in the 2003 Tate exhibition A Century of Artists Film in Britain. Kutiman became famous for video scratching with his work using YouTube videos in 2009.

References

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History

See also

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