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elk cloner

Posted on October 4, 2011 by tapebox| Leave a comment

Live performance recorded at Shiny Toys Festival, Muelheim , Sept 23, 2011.

Original version appears on Toad Blinker, Dekorder records, Oct 2011. http://www.dekorder.com/058.html

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Tagged audio, computer virus, electronic music, muelheim

blinker device

Posted on October 3, 2011 by tapebox| Leave a comment

We use a video camera shooting 25 frames per second at a high shutter speed to make animations using illustrated picture discs, exploiting the same mathematical quirk as a phenakistoscope. We had a go at improvising a simple device to view the animations without a video camera…you’ll need some black cardboard, a sharp knife, a yoghurt pot, a record player and a bright light.

(here’s one we made earlier…)

The design could be ‘finessed’… e.g. we found we could watch the animation happen directly on the surface of the record (rather than by peering through the slots in the cardboard) by pointing the light through the slots at certain angles, suggesting a device incorporating a mirror and a carefully positioned light source could be very effective.

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Posted in art, picture discs, ramblings, sculpture, video

Tagged analogue, animation, audiovisual, decks, DIY, electronic music, here's one we made earlier, phenakistoscope, picture disc, pre-cinematic devices, science, zoetrope

die raum, berlin

Posted on September 25, 2011 by tapebox| Leave a comment

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Tagged advertising, audiovisual, berlin, electronic music, gigs, poster design, posters, sculpture

Toad Blinker

Posted on September 18, 2011 by tapebox| Leave a comment

New zoetropic picture disc LP, Toad Blinker, released by Dekorder.

01. Bonus Level
02. Conjugal Bloom Receptor
03. Dispersal Projection
04. Data Corporation
05. Visceral Protocol
06. Glome Organ

07. Elk Cloner
08. Iterative Deviation
09. Toad Blinker
10. E.M. Slew Percolator
11. Corolla

Corolla:

Toad Blinker:

Elk Cloner:

Glome Organ:

We tracked the signal emanating from the rotary emitter and ended up here…exploring the lab where biological parts are spliced with virally spawned digital mutations.

Toad Blinker is an incautiously assembled amalgam of mutated techno forms, analogue electronics, tape cuts and digital sampling, gleefully twisted psychedelia. It’s a take on computerised music production that rejects tired badges of ‘quality’. It’s fast and cheap, unexplained, joyful, strange, it loves trash and mess and mistakes and too much energy, and revels in accidental collisions.

Sculpture aim to generate an energy greater than the sum of its constituent elements. Dan Hayhurst’s music finds its ideal counterpart in Reuben Sutherland’s animations. Like their previous Rotary Signal Emitter LP (Dekorder, 2010), Toad Blinker is a zoetropic picture disc designed to be filmed at 25fps with a high shutter speed.

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Tagged audiovisual, blinker, dekorder, electronic music, picture disc, sculpture, tape, tapeloop, toad, zoetrope

pird

Posted on August 4, 2011 by tapebox| Leave a comment

Toad Blinker animation test 2:

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Tagged animation, audiovisual, creature, flickbook, globules, mutant

splot

Posted on August 3, 2011 by tapebox| Leave a comment

Toad Blinker animation test 1:

new picture disc coming soon

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Tagged animation, audiovisual, creature, flickbook, globules, mutant

mutek

Posted on June 6, 2011 by tapebox| 1 Comment

sculpture at mutek 2011:

and this:

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Tagged animation, audiovisual, decks, electronic music, found tape, gigs, montreal, mutek, reel to reel, tape, tape recorders, tapeloop, walkman, zoetrope

remix

Posted on May 29, 2011 by tapebox| Leave a comment

couple of remixes by sculpture coming soon

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Posted in audio recordings, photographs, sculpture, tapes

Tagged analogue, audio, electronic music, magnetic, reel to reel, tape, tape recorders, tapeloop, uher

toad blinker

Posted on May 25, 2011 by tapebox| Leave a comment

bonus level/conjugal bloom receptor/dispersal projection/data corporation/visceral protocol/glome organ/elk cloner/iterative deviation/toad blinker/e.m. slew percolator/corolla

the toad blinker is a component in the same system as the rotary signal emitter

currently undergoing tests in controlled conditions before release into the population

for service information please contact dekorder

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Tagged cellular automata, flora, picture disc, viruses