Jamming Gear is a concept gadget allowing you to control music through the tangible arrangement of gears. Each corresponding music loop is played in full with each complete rotation of a single gear.
(collaboration with Kenichiro Saigo)
“Radius Music combines ideas of cartography and graphic scores as a means to produce sound.
The device itself is an autonomous revolving machine that reads a distance value in real-time between itself and another object. As the machine slowly rotates and scans the room, it takes this radial distance and outputs it as a relative sonic frequency and a corresponding visual score.”
by Dave Young
Mass Black Implosion (The Immovable Do, Percy Grainger) 2008
ink on archival facsimile of score
drawings for 0_King variations
2004
10 ink drawings on drafting film
31.5 x 31.5cm each, (80 x 60cm framed)
Octodons’mix 2003
Objects + live animals
This is a device activated by three DJing degus (rodents of South America). The set is presented vertically. The two degus, left and right of the image, turning in their wheel each activate a turntable. The third animal, center, operates the crossfader of the mixer, which determines the sound distribution. That is to say that it is possible to hear, according to the position of the crossfader, one or other of the plates or both simultaneously. The resulting sound is so driven at random. It operates on the goodwill of these animals. (google translation from french)
Speakers acoucoustique 2006
by mogens jacobsen 2005
“TurntablistPC is a server which third-party websites can access. A small file is hosted on the TurntablistPC. Subscribing websites place a short piece of code on their pages. This code sends information to the TurntablistPC. When somebody visits one of the subscribing websites, the TurntablistPC spins the record.
Control is remote and hidden. But output – audio – is local only (through speakers in the TurntablistPC).
The location of the remote website controls the direction of the spin. If the website is located east of the TurntablistPC, it spins clockwise. If it is located west of the TurntablistPC, the spin is counterclockwise.
The distance to the visiting user determines the amount of spin. If you are near the TurntablistPC, you will only scratch the vinyl. If you are far away, it will play a whole section of the record.”
FINE COLLECTION OF CURIOUS SOUND OBJECTS
“The arrangement includes six exceptional exhibits from the world of sounds and acoustics. At first sight looking trivial, each object incorporates a very unique ability.”
Georg Reil and Kathy Scheuring, January 2010
images here…
Quarter Mile Groove 2008
vinyl record
The recording translates the length of its vinyl groove into audio allowing listeners to experience the 1/4 mile length of the spiral as the record is played. Every inch of the needle’s path is audible in the form of a click, each foot as a beat and distances of 10 feet are heard as a blip. These sounds gradually slow as the stylus approaches the center, (the stylus travels less distance in the groove with each revolution of the record). Along the way, the voice of the narrator mentions the horizontal dimensions of particular objects. The tangle is the unbroken, vinyl residue resulting from the initial master cutting of Quarter Mile Groove. Unraveled, this thread of vinyl would be 1⁄4 mile in length.
