David Giraud

The Wire magazine has posted the complete, unedited version of Philip Sherburne’s “Invisible Jukebox” with Carl Craig on their website. Here’s an excerpt:

PS: You learned to edit on tape?

CC: I learned to edit on tape. I learned from Derrick how to, just, splice.

PS: How painstaking was that?

CC: I mean it could be very easy, if you know what you’re doing. The issue is how to keep track of what’s where. So once you cut something out, if you want to use it later, you have to mark it. So for instance if you’re doing something in a computer program and you cut a piece here and a piece there, you can save them to the clipboard or you can cut and paste them into another document, or you can just put it in a playlist if you want. But I cut it like I cut tape, I don’t put things in playlists. (…)

Check it out here.  Via Philip Sherburne.