Yuri Suzuki counts the headlights on the highway at 33.3 RPM. This little yellow car does only one thing: click the white button on and it runs along tracks of vinyl, playing the music it runs along as it goes. Tracks of vinyl? That is madness! Instead of race track for race cars, music tracks for Sound Chaser.
Designer Yuri Suzuki puts it like this: “A train-style record player. Soundchaser is a new way of playing the sounds on records. Resembling something like a ‘musical scalectrix’; pieces of vinyl records are connected together to make a track. The record pieces are from cheap vinyls bought at jumble sales or second-hand record shops. This record player revives forgotten, old records.”
Way neat. Although this is sort of like a backwards step in music-player engineering, the imagination does turn up a few uses for it. I imagine a supremely talented or insane DJ creating a party mix like a hobby train collector creates a track; “DJ Conductor on the mix with the 300 feet beats!”
Designer: Yuri Suzuki
danm i like this, totaly wack but some vinal should be kept intact (i still have my awsome old glass turn table sony) for the warmth of the sound (preferbaly listend through tube type amps and GOOD speakers with real heavy enclosures).
http://www.happynewears.be/2008/nl/parcours.php check out OTHER SIDE, BREAK
CLEA COUDSI & ERIC HERBIN (FR)
it’s the same concept!
Cool!
Sound Chaser is on display in Bristol at Arnolfini; check the exhibition: http://on-purpose.info/
Please please can someone tell me where to buy sound chaser train record players and cut vinyl tracks? Can’t see that the designer has any to sell? Has the prototype been improved since 2008?