lolitacoverrmx (for ARIEL REBEL'S HAUNTED GRÄFENBERG SPOT + Entro MC) - jonCates (2010)

ARIEL REBEL'S HAUNTED GRÄFENBERG SPOT is a tumblr:



on October 17th 2010 this tumblr featured covers from various editions of Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, which i believe to be selected from:

this inspired me to make the video/screengrab/recording/remix/rework above.

the soundtrack is a cut-up/remix/rework of the track GOLD DAWN from the FORTHCOMING CASSETTE MAEJAKGWA EP by Entro MC:



as Eduardo Navas writes:

"This particular dynamic is actually an extension of sampling... because "writing" is no longer seen as something truly original, but as a complex act of resampling and reinterpreting material previously introduced, which is obviously not innovative but expected in new media. Acts of appropriation are also acts of sampling..."

&& then these acts + dynamics become ongoing conversations, animating the flow of our exchanges.
- jonCates

cassette, animated - ~zatch123 (2010) bitcrushed rework by jonCates (2010)