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Vinyl 12″, Insert – Ltd. Ed. 500 ex.

SCRATCH is a sound installation for which the fastest industrial robot in the world has been modified to scratch the surface of a vinyl record placed on a table. The monster machine, capabale of manipulating up to 240 pieces per minute is equipped with a reading head specialized for amplifying the sound that is produced by the frenetic attacks of the metal on the record. The dynamic force of the robot’s arms is impossible to follow with the naked eye. The varied and surgically precise positions and accelerations are orchestrated by a computer program specially designed for the project.

The raw noise is massively distributed in the exhibition space until the moment when the robot detaches itself from the surface of the vinyl to prepare for a new cycle by practicing a series of extremely fast, circular warmup movements. Pausing only momentarily to allow for a space for silence, the sonic residue of the hypnotic hyperactivity of the robot quickly fills the space again.

The heavy pressure caused by the movements of the metallic point on the surface of the record produce a series of erosion lines and remove some surface material along these markings. The mutations and transformations of these objects are direct and unique results from the work sequence, raw traces of the performance. The choice of the record remains free and arbitrary and like a sportsman at the end of his career, it is not replaced until it reaches its rupture point, its saturation.

SCRATCH is a sonic composition of 7 minutes and 22 seconds in duration, made up of recordings of the activity of the robot on vinyl records and their reading on a regular record player. The two sonic states of a same object creates a third state.

AKA 06 | Scratch
Michael Sellam – 2009

12″ LP + Insert – limited 500ex.

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Vinyl 12″, Antistatic Bag – Ltd. Ed. 512 ex.

Live-recordings of Harddisko: 16 computer harddrives on power. Superreal computer music.

Upon powering, each harddrive moves with its own speed and pattern, as directed by the firmware and mechanical constitution. Electromagnetic emissions picked up as acoustic signal reveal the specific tone of a drive. In various formations, the harddrives perform according to their past usage and current state.

Valentina Vuksic (CH – 1974) is a computer artist and programmer living and working in Zürich. She explores an individual articulation of hard- and software mediation. The processes in such intermediate space imply actors rendered audible.

Vinyl 12 » – Maxi 45rpm – Limited Edition 512 copies
Each record is hand packed with an antistatic bag, sealed by a sticker and numbered.

Tracks recorded live
/Bunker studio, La Garenne Colombes

Assembled by Artkillart
/Limbus Europae studio, Berlin

Mastered at DK-Mastering, Paris

Design
Jean-Baptiste Parré

AKA 05 | Harddisko
Valentina Vuksic – 2009

12″ LP, Antistatic Cover – limited 512ex.

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Double Side DVD & .torrent file – Ltd. Ed. 500 ex.

Authors : Cyrille Henry, Nicolas Montgermont
Mastered By – Benoît Courribet
Video Mastering – Bertrand Baudry, Keyman
Artwork – Strom Varx
Production : Arcadi / Cie Prométhée
Support : Césaré / Art Zoyd
Communication : Delphine Tissot

This double side dvd contains:
– a side for dvd player containing the video pieces.
– a side for computer containing infos, better quality videos and software used and developed for this project.

TRACK LISTING
(Creative Commons License)

1. adaptation 7’15
2. convulsions 5’52
3. mutation 3’41
4. parade 6’43
5. replis 8’16
6. ondoiement 10’03

SOFTWARE LISTING (GPL License)
1. vivarium pure data patches
2. pure data extended
3. open time line
4. vlc

AKA 04 | Vivarium
chdh – 2008

Double side DVD – HD videos, PD patchs, DVD videos – limited 500ex.

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Vinyl 12″, Hand Cut B-Side – Ltd. Ed. 333 ex.

– Anatomy : a dissection consists of opening up a body according to a predefined protocol.
– Geometry : a dissection problem involves cutting up a figure to rearrange the pieces into another given figure.

A progressive mix began on a blank disc, using surgical material connected to a contact microphones.
The A side is the sound result of the live sessions, recorded in 2008 in Paris / Bruxelles. 17 min.
The B side is a hand cut groove.

Each disc is Hand Cutted.
333 copies (n° 1-33: performed and signed)

AKA 03 | DiscSection
Yann Leguay – 2009

12″ LP, All records with handcrafted cover & hand cutted B-side – limited 300 + 33ex.

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White Vinyl 12″, Insert – Ltd. Ed. 500 ex.

For Synthi VCS3 Synthesizer And Turntables (1971)
Live Performance Electronic

Includes a notebook of 4 b/w pages with original score notes, instructions for playing, 16 VCS3 patches, and two 33RPM records on which 2×16 sound events are recorded.

Extract from notebook:
Composed 1971. First performed at the Cheltenham festival, 1971, the composer taking the VCS3 part and Messrs John and Robert Cary (the composer’s sons) the turntables parts.

Extracts from back sleeve notes:
Trios associates improvisation within a set of defined paramaters. […]
Trios was played for the first time in France since its creation, at the occasion of the Sonorité festival in Montpellier, September 2006.
Note: The present record may be used to re-enact the piece in addition with a VCS3 synthesizer according to the solo version instructions.

Original score published by Electronic Music Studios (London) Ltd.
Mastered at DK Mastering, Paris.

AKA 02 | Trios
Tristram Cary performed by Vincent Epplay & Samon Takahashi – 2008

12″ LP + Insert with VCS3 patchs – limited 500ex.

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White Vinyl 12″, Silk-screened Cover, Matrix printed Insert – Ltd. Ed. 500 ex.

Radio free robots (RFR) is a radio show entirely conducted by robots (spoken through synthesized voices).

The moderator, Macha, runs a set of highly selected guests (robots). Robots specialists but also the everyone robot are discussing topics as diverse as robots’ sociology, cyber terrorism, computer linguistic, bio-computing, the place of human being within society, the weather, autonomous objects…
The radio show being located in an undefined future, the topics are debated on a prospective or historical point of view ; meaning that the era where the show takes place allows a historical sight over the contemporary topicality and as well anticipates a future of the future. The name Radio Free Robots refers cynically to the infamous US propaganda program fomented by the CIA : Radio Free Europe.

Silk screen cover, white vinyl with insert printed on a citizen dot matrix printer on an old office paper.

AKA 01 | Silicon Carne
Radio Free Robots – 2007

12″ LP, White Vinyl + Insert – limited 500ex.

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