What Happens When You Turn A Record Player Into An Illustrator

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What Happens When You Turn A Record Player Into An Illustrator

Mixing sight and sound has been taken to a whole new level at the Sight & sound festival in Montreal. Let’s re-cap:

  • Ally Mobbs presented her first audio-visual live performance of the turntable-cross-harmonograph system
  • Mobbs used microphones to capture the mechanical whirring and scribbling noises as the turntable machine drew
  • Beat Picnic (a hip hop musical collective known for their experimental sampling) re-worked and remixed these noises during the live show.
  • Much wow ensued

The final illustration output is dependent on speed, direction, time, and the starting position of the turntable platters and can then be further manipulated by manually adjusting the pitch controls of each turntable as they rotate.

Turntablism For The Hard Of Hearing: Harmonic Motion was on display at the new media art center Eastern Bloc during Sight & sound, and for more on Mobbs’ work, visit the project site here. A clip for the innovative device can be watch below:

turntablism for the hard of hearing from Ally Mobbs on Vimeo.

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