WTH is this turntable?

danger boy
danger boy Posts: 15,722
edited February 2009 in Electronics
very odd looking turntable it mixes old school turntable with new type computer electronics and features a optical cartridge stylus. :confused:

For this project we wanted to merge several of the most crucial audio technology inventions from the previous century into a hybrid object. The inspiring technologies include the phonograph, optical sound on film, the amplified guitar, and the computer. Each represents a different approach to generating, transmitting and/or encoding vibrations, from the spatial through the electrical and optical to digital bits, and each with its own expressive leverages and characteristic morphologies. This project embodies a continuum of audio technology interaction from the most physical hands-on of the vibrating string, to the abstracted turntable control of pre-recorded data, to non-physical control data in optical and electronic form, and finally to the completely abstracted and malleable digital domain.

http://www.grahamwakefield.net/MAT-S05/594O/instrument.htm
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  • Fongolio
    Fongolio Posts: 3,516
    edited February 2009
    I honestly think it's some kind of joke. Not very good though.
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  • comfortablycurt
    comfortablycurt Posts: 6,745
    edited February 2009
    Fongolio wrote: »
    I honestly think it's some kind of joke. Not very good though.

    I'm inclined to agree with you. I can't see what possible purpose having guitar strings on a turntable could serve.
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  • unc2701
    unc2701 Posts: 3,587
    edited February 2009
    It's not a turntable. It's a musical instrument/ art project that happens to use a turntable as it's basis.
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited February 2009
    It looks like Dr. Frankinstein created it.
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  • reeltrouble1
    reeltrouble1 Posts: 9,312
    edited February 2009
    I understand it perfectly.

    RT1
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  • Marty913
    Marty913 Posts: 760
    edited February 2009
    reeltrouble1 wrote: »
    I understand it perfectly.

    RT1

    Yep, it's one of those subliminal messages. If you touch this turntable, you're gonna get spanked.

    The turntable looks like one of those mid-80'a quartz-locked Technics like maybe a SL-QL1. Not sure about the paddle but I had a girlfriend once....never mind.
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