Installation:

For the white wall I created a serious of recording devises that I have worked with through out the term. In essence it shows the process of how sound has been recorded and heard in the early stages. By using a three track system I was able to create up and down movement that would allow phonograph, tone arm and magnetic tape recorder head to move across their designated material. In addition to the up and down movement I incorporated left and right movement as well. By taking apart a typewriter and extracting sensors form the tab and shift keys I was able to produce this left and right movement. So as the three tracks moved up and down they would also move in a left and right.



In the first track were the phonographs, which I constructed out of metal. The top phonograph was used to pick up the sounds of the room as well as the noises produced from the tone arm and the tape recorder. As it moved up and down it would also move in a left and right motion etching the recordings onto the wax background. At the same time of the recording the second and smaller phonograph would then pass over these etchings and amplify the etchings which could be heard by placing ones ear to the horn.



In the second track there is a tone arm that I removed from a record player. In essence the tone arm is the same as a phonograph just the electronic version. As the tone arm moved up and down the tone arm would pick up the scratches I made in the piece of vinyl I constructed producing loud scratching noises that could be heard through the speakers I wired the tone arm too. Both the phonograph and the tape recorder could then pick up the loud scratching noises.



In the third track there was a tape recorder head that I extracted from a tape recorder. I also extracted the microphone from the tape recorder, so that it could pick up the noises of the phonographs and tone arm. As the magnetic tape head moved up and down it would also move in a left right motion and record the sounds on to the magnetic tape background. In theory I will be able to remove the magnetic tape strips form the background and splice them together and hear a recording of my installation.