A Record Player With No Records, And Lasers Instead Of A Needle

this is truly phenomenal! Aesthetically, you cannot top this magnificent work. It reminds me of another laser-stylus project I saw that interprets the width and colour of rings in cross-sections of trees. HERE is a link to that. If you don’t speak German, the gist is that a Playstations Eye Camera is used for the stylus and it takes the video signal, converts it to VVVV, converts that to MIDI, and then uses those signals to control Ableton. We see in the sleek, precise Soundmachines version that the MIDI pattern is very exactly mapped out visually on the “record,” but that any sound can be put to that. That’s why the wood “record” is so fascinating: you will never know exactly how the wood will sing to you.

I would love to have one of these at home…

It’s raining surprisingly hard here southern California, hell, it’s even thundering! It’s making me miss Portland like crazy. I know Burial uses samples of rain, and Eskmo posted on his Facebook that he is recording the rain today too.

So I pulled my mic out and have been recording the rain… 

(For the record, that’s an Audio-Technica AT2020)