Part two of the phonorecord work, which began with the collaboration with *The Infant Cycle
This time I used an experimental stereodevice fit out with contact mics to play records of ravi shankar, dj spooky, 1000 lock grooves and pink floyd. very harsh and distorted on side one and more quit on the other side, which used samples from side one proceeded through software which generated digital grain.
This record is limited to 40 exemplares and part of the super8inchserie from DHYANA RECORDS.
It was lathe cut by the famous Peter King from New Zealand, who cut records since the eighties for a lot of known and unknown bands world wide.
*Vital Weekly 455 by Frans de Waard*
bq. ...More interesting is the 'Phonorecord' by Dronaement, which is a
hommage to the vinylrecord (funny of course to release it on a lathe
cut, since that is alike vinyl, but it's not vinyl). Droaement uses
records by Ravi Shankar, DJ Spooky and RRR-500 lockgroove record on
an experimental phonedevice, taping the sounds with
contactmicrophones and making an interesting sound collage out of
that. On the b-side is 'Digital Grain', taking the sounds from the
other side into the digital domain and making it into an even more
dense sort of pieces, consisting of many layers. However the
soundquality on this side is not as good as on the other side. ...
