A special 12" lock
groove record is made as tool for the staalplaat soundsystem
installation at the Earational festival 2004. Each side will
consist of 11 groups of 5 different loops.
Some made for interference, some made to harmonise, all made
for the location. For one side of this record staalplaat soundsystem
will select loops and for the other side we have invited artists
to make loops.
The present set-up consists of 10 vinyl killers
- toy car record players, each customised with its own fm transmitter.
The sound will come through a set of 200 radios that will receive
the signal transmitted by the vinyl killers. As each killer
will play its own record (locked groove records) it opens up
a separate audio stream. We thereby generate and control a
10-channel sound system. By arranging the radios in 10 groups
it becomes possible to explore the architectural dimensions
of the space.