broken rekkids, '02
Broken Rekkids features working/adapted
turntables, lasers, photosensors and amplifiers. The turntables twitch to the
left or right based on amplitude levels within their environment. Fragments
of broken Lps are mounted above the turntables and held in place with metal
goosenecks. On the surface of the turntable a laser is pointing at the broken
Lp above, and it's reflection is captured by a light sensor also on the turntable.
As the turntables twitch sound is created by amplifying the signal from the
light sensor. It was possible to hear the recorded sounds of the records from
the reflected beam – but it was noisy and rough and wild, and that was
the point. The devices use an electret microphone as a sound sensor and twitch
according to how loud the sound in the room is. I had three of these devices
that were exhibited while I was a visiting artist at the Cincinnati Academy
of Art for a week in early 2002.