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 VinylVideo™
- an invention by Gebhard Sengmüller, in cooperation with
Martin Diamant, Günter Erhart and Best Before
VinylVideo™ is a new, wonderous and fascinating development
in the history of audio-visual media. For the first time in
the history of technological invention, VinylVideo™ makes
possible the storage of video (moving image plus sound) on
analog long-play records. Playback from the VinylVideo™ picture
disk is made possible with the VinylVideo™ Unit which consists
of a normal turntable, a special conversion box (aka the VinylVideo™
Home Kit) and a television.
In it's combination of analog and digital elements VinylVideo™
is a relic of fake media archeology. At the same time, VinylVideo™
is a vision of new live video mixing possibilities. By simply
placing the tone arm at different points on the record, VinylVideo™
makes possible a random access manipulation of the time axis.
With the extremely reduced picture and sound quality, a new
mode of audio-visual perception evolves. In this way, VinylVideo™
reconstructs a home movie medium as a missing link in the
history of recorded moving images while simultaneously encompassing
contemporary forms of DJ-ing and VJ-ing. For further information
please also visit our website: http://www.vinylvideo.com
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In the bettercheaperfaster race for technology, Austrian
artist Gebhard Sengmüller is running in the wrong direction.
His VinylVideo Home Kit sells for $2,000 - more than your
average DVD player - and delivers a picture far fuzzier than
video. But the hybrid analog/digital box does do something
no DVD can: Hooked up to a turntable and a black-and-white
TV, it plays "videorecords."
The project (www.vinylvideo.com)
was an exercise in pseudo-dead media: Sengmüller and his collaborators
set out to invent an early video-recording device that had
never existed. (Later, their research uncovered a few real
videorecord projects launched prior to VHS.) Sengmüller has
signed a handful of acts to create VinylVideo "albums" that
"make sense wherever you set the needle down, playing it like
a loop," he says. "It wouldn't make sense for something like
The Godfather." -
Richard Baimbridge
Wired magazine June 2000
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