prosthetic knowledge
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Dyskograf
Interactive sound installation developed by Avoka can let participants create music by marking sequences on a paper disk with a pen, which is then read by the machine - a sort-of Oramics Machine in turntable form:
Dyskograf from Jesse Lucas on Vimeo.
DYSKOGRAF is a graphic disk reader. Each disc is created by visitors to the installation by way of felt tip pens provided for their use. The mechanism then reads the disk, translating the drawing into a musical sequence.
The installation is above all a tool, which allows the creation of musical sequences in an intuitive way. The notion of a loop, closely linked to electronic music, is represented here by the cycle of the disk. The disk passes indefinitely in front of a camera fixed onto an arm. This substitution for the needle converts the drawing into sound by way of a specific application program (software). Through this system, the sequential ordering of music is learnt in a playful way, at the same time creating a unique object, souvenir of the musical composition.
More info can be found here
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DRAWING APPARATUS by Robert Howsare
Spirograph-like drawing machine constructed with two turntables:
The revolution of the records create drawings that serve as a markers of temporality. The drawings also speak to the idea of the editionable print through their ability to be replicated using domestic materials.
It’s truely impressive when you see it in action (and wonder why it hasn’t been done before), as you can see in the video embed below:
You can see more of Robert’s work here
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Scratch Markup Language
New project from Free Art Technology (F.A.T.) that aims to create a technology standard for the purpose of logging complex turntable manipulation:
SML (Scratch Markup Language) is a new file format for recording and replaying turntablism. We’ve developed open-source tools for accurately capturing the record and crossfader movements of a scratch DJ, allowing us to analyze, transcribe, and recreate scratch performances.
We want to do for turntablism what Graffiti Markup Language has done for tagging — especially teaching giant robot arms how to scratch.
At Art Hack Day we collaborated with other artists and programmers to develop the first prototypes of ScratchML. We used timecode vinyl to capture record movements ($10) and a hacked VCA fader + Arduino to record the crossfader ($30).
More info about the project can be found at F.A.T. here
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Prepared Turntable (2008) by Yuri Suzuki
A turntable that focuses on actively composing and playing music.
This record player has 5 tone arms, each of which can have its volume controlled by its own fader.
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Wheels Of Steel - Browser-based turntable mixing simulator
The above video is a demo of what it does, but you can try it out (on modern browsers) here:
There are even more features if you have Safari 5, Chrome 12, MAC OSX, as you can access ‘scratch mode’
As far as I can see at the moment, you can only use selected tracks, I cannot see any option to use your own mp3 collection or tracks stored anywhere.
For the web-technical amongst you, how this was put together can be found in this blog post (scroll down a little bit)
If you want to hurt your ears, here is a video using two sources of the Nyan Cat meme
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Black and white oil paintings by/© Matteo Mezetta (via scene360)
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Light Drive by Kim Pimmel
Stop motion form and colour, using light painting techniques.
Lighting: Kim Pimmel
Sound: Tron Legacy trailers
I’ve been interested in taking my Light Study photo series and evolving them into motion pieces. I shot a lot of footage for a VJ gig for FITC San Francisco. So I edited together those stop motion sequences, mashed up some audio from the Tron Legacy trailers, and out came Light Drive.
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Z-Trip: Mixed, Scratched, Tweaked & Abused - Track 4
Quality turntablism mix available for downloading here in its entirety
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Stuck in a Groove / Phonovideo by Clemens Kogler
JUST STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING NOW AND WATCH THIS!!!! Highly recommended!Phonovideo is a VJ tool or visual instrument used to display animations in an analog way without the help of a computer. “Stuck in a Groove” is the first film made with this technique, it serves also as a demo for the technique.
In the future phonovideo should be used for live performances in cooperations with musicians, performancers and other artists.
The music for “Stuck in a Groove” was created by Richard Eigner/ Ritornell.
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Works For Turntable by Stephen Cornford
Audio / Video composition assembled from eight amplified kinetic sculptures for used record players
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Neurosonics Live - via Chris Cairns
Holographic Drumkit and Turntables test.
Chris Cairns has been working with Beardyman on producing a live performance of his short film Neurosonics with interactive holograms. You can see the amazing test footage, which was shot live and has not been post-produced.
DRUMS: WILL CLARK
TURNTABLES: JFB
HEADS: BEARDYMANvia Partizan
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Optical Illusions utilising record turntables
Stick with it, there are some genuine surprising stuff here!
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Ice Records From Today and Tomorrow:
Katie Paterson recorded the sound of 3 glaciers (Langjökull, Snæfellsjökull and Solheimajökull) on Iceland. She then pressed those recordings on ice record made of melt water from those glaciers. The records were played on 3 turntables and it took almost 2 hours till they were completely melted. You can listen to one here.
found at I’m Revolting
