Aleks Kolkowski, hardcore phonographer, invited me to his studio on the 6th of April to record two Edison Cylinders as a contribution to his
Phonographies project.
For the session I used a homemade circuit based on the STEIM Cracklebox but with three similar circuits all joined together. The 9V battery powers a 12" Celestion G12 speaker and the sound is projected from there straight into the recording horn of the Edison Phonograph.
We recorded two pieces both lasting two minutes (the maximum length for a brown wax cylinder at 160rpm). The first was fairly straightforward but for the second Aleks experimented with a sound-on-sound technique, actually cutting the groove in two passes.
You can hear the results
here.
Photos by Aleks Kolkowski.
www.phonographies.org
trashcomplex.wordpress.com
blog.frieze.com/phonographies
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