Jinsheng Wang’s turntable sculptures:

The products in this line use three salvaged turntables two that have been converted to gardens and the third that plays vinyl. I accidentally became a collector of old radios and turntables because in the 1990s it was expensive and difficult to buy parts, so I decided to buy old turntables for parts. Moreover, I have always liked the physical appearance of them. Now, I understand that I was attracted to their basic geometry: the circle, the line or arm and the cube.

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“Back in the Good Old Days,” by Fabien Clerc

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A record groove magnified 1000 times. But before you go getting all sappy about the days when things were objects and stuff was things, remember that hard drives are things too. If you haven’t read it already, I hereby recommend Matthew Kirschenbaum’s Mechanisms.

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This nice-looking little documentary shows the vinyl record manufacturing process at Gotta Groove Records. I love factory tours, and it’s interesting to see a company that was founded only recently getting into the LP business (after all, vinyl is coming back, you know?).

I wish they could make one of these for MP3s.

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From Boing Boing, ACOUSTIC LEVITATION. Sounds that are so loud that when adjusted to form standing waves, their nodes can support light objects in the air.

This is a great example of how sound is actually a physical, material phenomenon. People so often think of sounds as immaterial or transcendent or intellectual objects, but here they are, just picking stuff up. An interesting corollary to the use of sound as weapon.

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