This is the vinyl "stamper". Once the mother plate has been made it goes into mass production. The mother can make up to 1000 vinyl records. This machine is what actually stamps the vinyl. First you place the mother plate in, then a puck of heated vinyl goes in and it's stamped:
Then it comes out the other side a finished record to play....
Showing posts with label lathe cutting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lathe cutting. Show all posts
The Apprentice and the Hare
My second day at Brooklyn Phono:
The boss of Brooklyn Phono, working on a huge tank:
They immediately put me to work stuffing sleeves for Bob Dylan:
Oh so chic latex gloves:
Cutting the vinyl:
I love the city when it's like this...
James's piece for the Texas Firehouse, curated by Jason Villegas:
Someones boobles....
drunk graffiti?
I perform this weekend again at the Ontological Theater in the East Village.
go here for more info:
www.ontological.com
The boss of Brooklyn Phono, working on a huge tank:
They immediately put me to work stuffing sleeves for Bob Dylan:
Oh so chic latex gloves:
Cutting the vinyl:
I love the city when it's like this...
James's piece for the Texas Firehouse, curated by Jason Villegas:
Someones boobles....
drunk graffiti?
I perform this weekend again at the Ontological Theater in the East Village.
go here for more info:
www.ontological.com
As puzzled as the Oyster
Went to the MOMA opening for the Van Gogh exhibit. It was all about his work with darkness. It was really nice to see the layers of paint slathered on the canvas. It made me think of a piece that I'm in the process of starting...more info on that below.....
Afterwards we took photos in front of the building...James's photos are better, my camera is no good...
Then we went to a show for a band called "Two Mirrors" I think, and they had a showing of their first music video, it was good.....
This is an interesting combination of prints and fabrics....I liked it......
James Noir:
SO an amazing opportunity has occured and I just can't believe that it's true. I have been on the search for a lathe cutter to start learning how to cut my own vinyl for my performances. The lathe cutter I was interested in was to be flown in from Stuttgart, Germany and I would have to fly over and take a 2 day course on how to assemble and use the thing. It was a daunting task but I was willing to make the commitment to learn. Then a friend of a friend told me about an opportunity to become an apprentice to Master Lather Cutter and founder of the Audio Engineering Society, Albert Grundy. I would learn and use professional equipment from Brooklyn Phono, a Brookyln based vinyl cutting service. Amazing.....
My first task will be to find 3 missing parts for this lathe cutter. Once I find them Albert and I will re-assemble the machine and get it in working order....
Where the computer connects to send the sound file to the lathe....
To work out the low, mids and highs.....
A press that is made after the acetate has been cut...
A professional vinyl cutter....
You place the press in here and a puck of vinyl comes out that's been heated then it presses into the "press plate"....
My new school....
More updates every week and my progress....I will be planning on holding a tour of the facilities to my friends who are interested in learning the process from recording to record. When I get more info I will let you know....
Cutting Vinyl, making it happen......
Dieter's Vinyl cutting Machine.
So friends have been asking if I took Photos of it. So here it is:
So friends have been asking if I took Photos of it. So here it is:
The needle is made of a super small diamond and the grooves are essentially melted onto a blank vinyl. As the diamond cuts the vinyl one can control the sound that's it's recording by the knobs and volumes to the right of it. That's the part of the process that I find most interesting. Having to make the recording just right.
Apparenty he bought this from a guy that lives in the woods and just creates these machines all day. It was only about 1600 euros, or maybe it was more, but I think its an investment.
The only thing about getting one for me is the fact that I will have to find a way to vent the waste. It's supposed to be super loud and all this dust stuff comes out of it. So now i am making plans with my architect friend to maybe have one in our new basement.
cardinal vowels
So my friend Tom told me about an interesting piece that I wanted to think about out loud:
"I was reading this catalog abut the installation artist ann hamilton and there was a section bout a piece called 'mneme" that had a turntable in it and the passage really struck me...hamilton made a recording of the "cardinal vowels"..."the hinge sounds of language, a set of eight tongue configurations, not aligned with the vowels of any particular language, but the reference points of all speech"
she had somebody spinning the record by hand so that the sounds were slurred and "animal like" with the idea that the hand and its fingers would be exchanged for the tongue...resystemizing the world of thought and experience."
Reading this email reminded me of a speech installation that was in place at the Semper Depot in Vienna.
This artist had individualized different phonics from words. It worked almost like a telegram machine. This little thing would trigger this pipe to make the sound that each little pipe-thing was assigned to. One could type anything on an old school computer that had a software that would transfer what you typed into the appropriate sound. Similar to the machine that the Deaf use when using the telephone.
I have a favorite record right now that is all about how to treat and care for your dog. I don't really use the whole record so much as the first 5 seconds of the record. There is this recording of a dog, or rather a man making doggy noises, that starts with panting, then continues to making snorgling noises and whines. I find that when I use this portion of the record I can almost form interesting words, if I'm in the zone that is. If I think about it too much then it's a no dice situation.
Here are some other interesting installations from the Wein Modern. It was so great to be included in such an interesting collection of work.
This piece was interesting because it was so similar to otomos record set up:
Great minds think alike?
This piece was interesting as well. It was a hand made needle that was placed on a piece of sliced wood. The wooden turntable(?) was then hooked up to a motor and the needle sawed the grooves into the wood. By the time I saw it there had been a significant amount wood chipped off from the needle. Then the image was transfered to this TV thing. I don't know a lot about video stuff, so I have no idea how the rest of it worked out, but the presentation was interesting and slightly humorous.
After reading Tom's email I am now seriously considering buying a vinyl cutter to create my own records of sound choices. Often times when I step outside and listen to the outside noises, to me it's so interesting to listen to nature and hear the right placements of sound coming from different areas of time. Just like improvisation. I'm always so grateful when I hear it happening.
My host in Vienna, Dieter, has his own vinyl cutting machine and actually cut Otomo, ErikM, Billy and me seperate records to use for the performance. He even cut a record with a protrait of Otomos face. One thing that I found interesting about vinyl cutting machines are the mess ups. I think Dieter said that it took him about 15 trys for each one record that was meant for each artist. And we recieved 2 of them.
So my question to him was if I could have some of the mess ups. Some mess ups were recorded with too much low end so when you place a needle on the record it skips because the low end has melted the vinyl in a certain way that the needle could'nt "catch" onto the grooves.
It's like a delicious dream. The only thing I could think of after hearing about tom's disco-very is that I need to get my hands on that record. Or maybe make my own???
"I was reading this catalog abut the installation artist ann hamilton and there was a section bout a piece called 'mneme" that had a turntable in it and the passage really struck me...hamilton made a recording of the "cardinal vowels"..."the hinge sounds of language, a set of eight tongue configurations, not aligned with the vowels of any particular language, but the reference points of all speech"
she had somebody spinning the record by hand so that the sounds were slurred and "animal like" with the idea that the hand and its fingers would be exchanged for the tongue...resystemizing the world of thought and experience."
Reading this email reminded me of a speech installation that was in place at the Semper Depot in Vienna.
This artist had individualized different phonics from words. It worked almost like a telegram machine. This little thing would trigger this pipe to make the sound that each little pipe-thing was assigned to. One could type anything on an old school computer that had a software that would transfer what you typed into the appropriate sound. Similar to the machine that the Deaf use when using the telephone.I have a favorite record right now that is all about how to treat and care for your dog. I don't really use the whole record so much as the first 5 seconds of the record. There is this recording of a dog, or rather a man making doggy noises, that starts with panting, then continues to making snorgling noises and whines. I find that when I use this portion of the record I can almost form interesting words, if I'm in the zone that is. If I think about it too much then it's a no dice situation.
Here are some other interesting installations from the Wein Modern. It was so great to be included in such an interesting collection of work.
This piece was interesting because it was so similar to otomos record set up:
Great minds think alike?
This piece was interesting as well. It was a hand made needle that was placed on a piece of sliced wood. The wooden turntable(?) was then hooked up to a motor and the needle sawed the grooves into the wood. By the time I saw it there had been a significant amount wood chipped off from the needle. Then the image was transfered to this TV thing. I don't know a lot about video stuff, so I have no idea how the rest of it worked out, but the presentation was interesting and slightly humorous.
After reading Tom's email I am now seriously considering buying a vinyl cutter to create my own records of sound choices. Often times when I step outside and listen to the outside noises, to me it's so interesting to listen to nature and hear the right placements of sound coming from different areas of time. Just like improvisation. I'm always so grateful when I hear it happening.
My host in Vienna, Dieter, has his own vinyl cutting machine and actually cut Otomo, ErikM, Billy and me seperate records to use for the performance. He even cut a record with a protrait of Otomos face. One thing that I found interesting about vinyl cutting machines are the mess ups. I think Dieter said that it took him about 15 trys for each one record that was meant for each artist. And we recieved 2 of them.
So my question to him was if I could have some of the mess ups. Some mess ups were recorded with too much low end so when you place a needle on the record it skips because the low end has melted the vinyl in a certain way that the needle could'nt "catch" onto the grooves.
It's like a delicious dream. The only thing I could think of after hearing about tom's disco-very is that I need to get my hands on that record. Or maybe make my own???
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