For 30 years Disc Jockeys have been expressing their musical ideas with scratching. Unlike many other popular instruments, the equipment used for scratching is not built as one single unit, and it was not intended to be a musical instrument. This paper gives an overview of how DJs use their turntable, vinyl record and audio mixer in junction to produce scratch music. Their gestural input to the...

We present a new type of wearable musical instrument called the DJammer. The DJammer brings turntable like creative functionality to the MP3 world while offering a collaborative platform for sharing the creative process over the network. It not only provides a new tool to DJs but also empowers each listener to a new type of community experience by giving them the ability to actively participate...

Following publication of our article [1], we found errors in analyses performed by the corresponding author (DJS) related to the phylogenetic relationship between Xylella species and the other xanthomonads. These errors do not make any difference to the main findings and conclusions reported in our paper. For example, the phylogenetic positions of NCPPB1131, NCPPB1132 and NCPPB4393 within the G...

The art form of manipulating vinyl records done by disc jockeys (DJs) is called scratching, and has become very popular since its start in the seventies. Since then turntables are commonly used as expressive musical instruments in several musical genres. This phenomenon has had a serious impact on the instrument-making industry, as the sales of turntables and related equipment have boosted. Des...

Esse trabalho foi realizado para a disciplina de Pós-graduação do Departamento Antropologia da USP: “Música, localidade e marcadores sociais diferença”, ministrada pelo professor Gibran Teixeira Braga, no segundo semestre 2019. Trata-se uma etnografia evento SP na Rua, tendo como foco atenção apresentação coletivo Baile dos Ratos fazendo discotecagem forró evento. O artigo busca, por meio etnog...