This book is dedicated to the memory of Clarence Barlow (1945-2023)

Why Frets?
Downtown 1983 (202122)

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.