September 15, 2004
CD Mixers.
How totally weird these machines are! Verging on the bizarre, the pointless. You spin the central dial back and forth to make a sound which approximates the sound of vinyl being pulled back and forth through a needle. It's straight out of "Snow Crash" or "The Diamond Age" isn't it? Aftertrails of old technology.
Actually the point about those sonics one can generate through the turntable is they foreground the process, they ritualise the materiality of playing the record and the deck becomes (in the truest sense) an instrument. But these synthesised "record effects" have absolutely no intrinsic connection with playing a CD whatsoever. It's rubbish really. Still, not sure I'd want to hear a CD deck which was deliberately sensitised to compact disc data corruption "glitch style".
Posted by Woebot at September 15, 2004 08:39 PM