Dust and Grooves

Dust & Grooves (D&G) is a photo and interview project documenting and exalting vinyl records, the people who love them, and the musical heritage they carry. With a website launched in October 2008 by Brooklyn-based professional photographer and vinyl addict Eilon Paz, D&G profiles individual collectors from all over the world in their natural environment – usualy at home with their personal collections. Each subject is interviewed in depth about their devotion to vinyl, then each conversation is paired with a beautiful series of portrait photographs by Eilon that capture the heart and soul of this passionate avocation.Together, words and images tell the story of the love affair between collector and collection, and preserve a record of music that otherwise might be lost.

D&G has featured a broad spectrum of vinyl enthusiasts from the US and abroad, making it the only international photo documentary of its kind. Reaching academic music historians and pop culture premiers as well as closet collectors and workaday couples who spin records together at night, Eilon has paid homage to this infatuation and tradition by illuminating one unique collector at a time.

Project Mission: 
Dust & Grooves: The Book will be the culmination of five years of D&G research and records. Select photographs and interviews from the site will be interspersed with an expanded subject pool covering the secret vinyl goldmines of political figures, athletes, fashion moguls, and ever yday joes. A lavish 12”x12” hardbound, full-color volume packaged with a double vinyl LP of music selected by those featured inside, D&G:The Book will profile 25-plus prolific collectors of all stripes with their fascinating troves. Framed by insightful essays and packed with sharp photography, the book will appeal to a broad spectrum of readers, crossing over die-hard vinyl enthusiasts to also reach fans of pop culture, portrait photography, creative interviews, and music history.

More at: dustandgrooves.com

Feats per minute

What if you would be able to generate music by the simple act of riding your bike? A simple thought that turned into a real bike, within a month. Feats per minute is a working prototype, designed by Liat Azulay, Merel Slootheer and Pieter Frank de Jong and created with a lot of help from Jeffry Sol and Vincent Beijersbergen.

 
Follow the development of Feats per minute here:
featsperminute.com

METROFARM

Dj Desks by Metrofarm.
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Founded in 2001 by Julia Böttcher and Jan 'Nunu' Müller, Berlin-based Metrofarm's expertise lies in design & manufacture, from the pre-conceptual stage to finished products & installation.

More at:
metrofarm.net

Christian Marclay

Christian Ernest Marclay (born 11 January 1955) is a Swiss and American visual artist and composer.
Marclay's work explores connections between sound, noise, photography, video, and film. A pioneer of using gramophone records and turntables as musical instruments to create sound collages, Marclay is, in the words of critic Thom Jurek, perhaps the "unwitting inventor of turntablism." His own use of turntables and records, beginning in the late 1970s, was developed independently of but roughly parallel to hip hop's use of the instrument.

Voice of Venus
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Moma Installation

More about Christian Marclay at:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Marclay
momaps1.org/exhibitions/view/305

L017

Vinyl Shaped by L017.
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L017 is an italian duo collective formed by Angelo Bramanti and Giuseppe Siracusa.
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Website:
L017.org

Erik Marc TRENSIG

Imperfect Dark Roots of the Outer Invertebrates, 2010 by Erik Marc TRENSIG
Artist & Filmmaker
Lives and works between Berlin and Barcelona

Website:
trensig.com

Love is the air by Carlos Aires

Vinyl Records cut by Carlos Aires

Artist Carlos Aires created this series, entitled “Love is in the Air”, by using a digital process to laser-cut shapes drawn from images of pornography and disaster and juxtaposing them with innocent scenes of animals and children.

Mostly known for his photography, Aires is certainly known for deviating from the conventional in his art, which consists of uncommon subjects like dwarfs and parks known for gay se* cruising in a hazy, fairytale-esque style that imitates romantic painting.

Website:
carlosaires.com

Davide Bertocchi

Davide Bertocchi uses imagery culled from music and science and intentionally manipulates it by imposing unusual and intimate perspectives. His body of work ranges from video to sculpture to sound installations and mainly deals with pseudo-scientific phenomena, such as the dissipation of energy and the movement of information through its “support mechanisms” such as CDs, DVDs, records, and/or magnetic tapes, the orbital movements of planets and galaxies - this useless rotating revolutionary movement and its existential and enigmatic impact on everyday life.

 “EVIL MOLECULA” - 2003 VINYL RECORDS, ALUMINUM TUBES, BLACK SILICONE. VARIABLE DIMENSIONS A gigantic model molecule made up of dodecahedrons created from vinyl records by “satanic” death metal and black metal rock bands, joined together by aluminum tubes. The shape of the structure changes and adapts to the space. This “constructivist” sculpture attempts to render our abstract idea of evil in a physical dimension. Installation view of the solo show at the Italian Cultural Institute, Los Angeles. (work on the wall “Spazio”, 2003.)

QUADROPHENIA - 2004
DEAMBULATOR, VINYL RECORDS, ALUMINUM, MIRRORS.
130 X 160 X 100 CM

Quadrophenia is a customised zimmer frame. The wheels are made from 2 sizes of vinyl records (the artist teen-age favourite selection) - the result being that the vehicles can only move in circles. The title is taken from the famous 70s cult movie about youth and music culture (specifically the Mods), and about social rebellion.

installation view, Code Uknown at Palais de Tokyo, Paris

Davide Bertocchi was born in Modena, Italy in 1969. 
More sculpure at:
davidebertocchi.com

Jonofon by Jon Helgi Holmgeirsson

Jón Helgi Hólmgeirsson designed an acoustic vinyl record player that’s made from a paper cup and a horn made out of paper to amplify the music from the vinyl record. Jónófón is the designer’s way of stripping away all the complicated technologies that’s around us today and returning to the basics of how things work.

The Jónófón comes in a flat pack and the user is supposed to have an understanding of the functions and put it together themselves from scratch.

jonhelgiholmgeirs.com

Change the record by Paul Cocksedge

London-based designer Paul Cocksedge's loudspeaker for smartphones takes an iconic object from the past – the 12” vinyl LP – and recycles it to enhance the very latest audio digital technology. And it does so through its carefully calibrated shape alone, leaving no need for wires or electricity. Change the Record helps the music live on, simply and elegantly. Works with any smartphone device with in-built speakers.

This stylish pieces are made simply by heating and molding recycled 12” records into a sound-enhancing conic shape.

Paul Cocksedge website:
paulcocksedge.co.uk/

Mary A. Valverde

Interesting installation by the artist Mary A. Valverde

TextScriptNote 2007
Vinyl records, aluminum tape, string, washers

Chakana
Record sleeves, graph paper, ink, copper pins

Artist's website:
mary-a-valverde.com

Robert Mickelson

Glass sculpture by Robert Mickelson

I will never change

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For Benga's new video for I Will Never Change, 960 separate pieces of vinyl were carefully measured, cut, and then finally animated. The result is a real-life waveform. Directed by Us, which consists of Christopher Barrett and Luke Taylor, the first task for the pair was calculating exactly how many records per second would be needed.
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"To animate the wave form, we built it and then carefully removed each individual record. This had to be done very gently as any shift in the position of the sculpture would result in the failure of the animation and as we had to literally destroy each piece of vinyl to get it off, there was only one chance to get it right. Once the sculpture was finally built, the animation process took about 30 hours.” There are some nice behind-the-scenes photos below as well, taken by Ben Jacobs.
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The process of readying the vinyl for filming took seven full working days, which including measuring and cutting each individual piece, as well as hand labelling, numbering and then finally polishing.
Director: Us
Production company: A+

Source
Creative Review

Sound Wave by Jean Shin

Sound Wave, 2007
melted 78rpm records on wooden armature

 Records were melted and sculpted to form a cascading wave, dotted with bursts of colorful labels. The resulting structure speaks to the inevitable waves of technology that render each successive generation of recordable media obsolete. The piece also aims to physically manifest the ephemerality of music as well as one man’s musical tastes, as represented by his personal record collection."

Link: jeanshin.com/soundwave.htm