Why Frets?

This book is dedicated to the memory of Clarence Barlow (1945-2023)
Why Frets? - Downtown 1983 (2021-22)
Performed by Marko Ciciliani
Guitarists on projected video:Nico Couck, Nele De Gussem and Alex Tentor.
Projected video recorded on February 12, 2022 at ChampdAction Studio 3 in DeSingel, Antwerp by Istfan Leel-Össy and Marko Ciciliani, edited and color graded by Marko Ciciliani.
Interview videos:
Glenn Branca interview on January 6, 1988,
interviewer unknown
youtube.com/watch?v=h2T_CU7Bjz4
Kim Gordon recorded on a rooftop
in New York in September 1988,
interviewer unknown
youtube.com/watch?v=YkiRPYf6NEk
Patti Smith interview by Lisa Robinson
in 1978, broadcast on USTV,
for »The Midnight Special«
youtube.com/watch?v=goaxO3mynJQ
Sonic Youth (Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon and Lee Ranaldo) interview for Videowave (episode 17) on January 8, 1983,
interviewer unknown
youtube.com/watch?v=QBecQZAgKjw
Newspaper article »Showing Promise«
Conceived by Marko Ciciliani
and Nicolas Trépanier,
written by Nicolas Trépanier in 2023.
Performance of Why Frets? - Downtown 1983
recorded on October 1st, 2022
by Marko Ciciliani at the CUBE,
Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.