This was not just some DJ set at some art opening. This was an attempt to DJ where no DJ had gone before. For the grand opening of the Marlborough Gallery on the Lower East Side, Prince Rama made their own records out of pizzas, and played songs off the pizzas themselves. Sound-waves were etched onto metal plates and baked into the pizza dough, making a whole record collection's worth of edible sonic artifacts ranging from Guns and Roses to Jay Z.



"We were able to get our hands on a record player today and dropped the needle on the pizza record and---- lo and behold---- our mouths were agape at what we heard. A brutal scraping of the primordial pizza fossil records hissed at us like serpents guarding the gates of eden. Then, like a sapphire caught in a rock tumbler, a sparkling gem of a melody would rear it's shiny head out from the din before retreating back into the mysterious crackle. Everyone I talked to said it was impossible. But I think we just cracked the pizza-code and discovered how to make them sing. And it sounds like a distant radio station tuned to Heaven FM. Perhaps one of the most beautiful sounds I have ever heard."

---Taraka Larson, upon first hearing the pizza record



DJ Pizza Time was performed as a part of the Pizza Time! exhibit at Marlborough Gallery September 2013

Photos courtesy of Erez Avissar and John Rohrer