Resources
To see the Pure Data and Arduino Code:
https://github.com/bartmediatech/Tribute-to-the-record-player
Info:
The good old record player. Unfortunate how it's of no use without any records. Just a spinning plate and a malfunctioning pin. These days we have Spotify and YouTube to play all the songs that have ever been made, without the need of any physical record, just a phone.
Different ways of putting on the tune you like. It got me thinking, can I still play songs without my phone? Is the record player still of any use? It wasn't, besides from the powerful and undeniable link it holds to music. It doesn't need explaining that when there is a record player involved, music is involved.
Jukeboxes allowed users to choose a song long before there was Spotify. This installation represents how distance to the Record Player functions as a Juke Box, passing through the times of music. Great distance = music from long ago, while a small distance brings you back to the near past.
Future directions with this project are:
- installing the distance measure to the spinning plate. In that way, the whole surrounding area of the record player is measured, and when a person would near the record player, the song / epoque changes.
- combining the sound played by the record player itself (record needed) with a sound generated from the movement of the spinning record. As such, both the mechanic movement of the record player, as well as the musical contents of the record become a symphony of their own.