Vinyl-killer model-auto turntables equipped with a needle and a small VHF transmitters. The sound comes from a set of radios that receive the signal transmitted by the vinyl-killers. Additional radios on a circling toy train move through the different transmitter frequencies, thus permanently altering their sound and making the range and order of the frequencies visible. The vinyl-killers circle around on specially prepared loop records, whose loops initially contain “digital silence”; another essential feature is that the vinyl-killers are battery-operated, so they slow down during the installation. All of this makes Yokomono an unstable, incalculable system, in which distortion and erosion, the obliteration and destruction of the sound are part of the concept. Project within the ARS-Electronica, O.K Centrum fuer Gegenwartskunst, Linz, Austria. jz
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