train tracks + vinyl tracks = sound chaser
filed under: audio | interactive | strange and wonderful
September 15th, 2008 post a comment (3) stumble it! digg it! by: technabob
This cool interactive art piece gives new life to old vinyl records. Created by designer/musician Yuri Suzuki, in collaboration with mechanical engineer Yaroslav Tenzer, the Sound Chaser uses chopped up curved slices of vinyl records and turns them into a custom musical track for a set of miniature trains to follow.

Participants connect the vinyl record slivers into any configuration they’d like, and the trains follow along the track, creating user-generated music mash-ups.

Now I have no idea how they managed to get such perfect slices out of these records, but they somehow figure out a way to do it accurately enough to keep the tiny trains from derailing.

Each train car has its own independent guidance system, needle, speaker and amplification, so they’re completely self-contained. They seem to have gotten their inspiration for these trains from the oh-so-awesome Vinyl Killer I featured a while back.

Check out the video clip below to see (and hear) the Sound Chaser train in action:
Now isn’t that music to your ears? These guys need to package these up with slices of records and mass produce ‘em. I think they’d have a hit on their hands.
[via The Dapper Alchemist]
September 15th, 2008 post a comment (3) stumble it! digg it! by: technabob
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3 comments post a comment
1. Shamik Chaudhuri | September 15th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Thanks for linking to my blog. I’m glad that you appreciate Yuri Suzuki’s work. He’s absolutely fantastic!
2. Dmitry | September 24th, 2008 at 10:37 am
Video is not available now.
3. musicobsession | October 2nd, 2008 at 11:04 pm
The way they are made sounds like another commonsense breakthrough. I love it.
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