| Title: | Megaphonia | |
|---|---|---|
| Production year:Year: | 2013 | |
| Material: | ソノシート、スライドプロジェクター (Slide) / ソノシート、タイプCプリント (Print) | |
| Flexi disc, Slide projector (Slide) / Flexi disc, C-Print (Print) | ||
| Width(mm): | Variable(Slide) / 495(Print) | |
| Depth(mm): | Variable(Slide) / 35(Print) | |
| Height(mm): | Variable(Slide) / 495(Print) |
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すべての音は蓄音機のレコードの上に曲線として現わされる―（寺田寅彦『試験管』より）
音が溝になり、再度溝をなぞると音になる。このことは非常に単純な仕組みであるが、一本の溝にすべての音が含まれているという事実は未だ驚きである。四角く切り出したソノシートを引き延ばし機にセットし、印画紙にプリントした。レコードの溝は数百倍に拡大され、音の形を目でなぞることが可能になる。聴覚を拡大することと視覚を拡大することを合わせると、眼で音に触れるとでも言うべき触覚的体験を生み出す。
All sounds can be expressed as curves on the surface of a phonograph record.
––Torahiko Terada, from Test Tube
Sounds are translated into record grooves, and tracing the grooves produces the sounds again. It’s an extremely simple mechanism, but the fact that all those sounds can be compressed into a single groove remains amazing to this day.
I placed flexi-discs, cut into squares, on an enlarger, and printed the images on paper. The records’ grooves are magnified hundreds of times, allowing us to trace the forms of sounds with our eyes.
Combining amplification of the auditory with magnification of the visual creates a tactile sensation, as if we can feel the sounds with our eyes.
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| Title | DownloadDL | PhotographerPhoto | Courtesy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Megaphonia (Slide) | Fig.1276 | Tetsuo Ito | |
| Megaphonia (Slide) | Fig.1269 | Tetsuo Ito | |
| Megaphonia (Slide) | Fig.1270 | Tetsuo Ito | |
| Megaphonia (Slide) | Fig.1271 | Tetsuo Ito | |
| Megaphonia (Slide) | Fig.1272 | Tetsuo Ito | |
| Megaphonia (Slide) | Fig.1273 | Tetsuo Ito | |
| Megaphonia (Slide) | Fig.1274 | Tetsuo Ito | |
| Megaphonia (Slide) | Fig.1275 | Tetsuo Ito | |
| Megaphonia (Print-A) | Fig.1073 | Nobutada Omote | |
| Megaphonia (Print-B) | Fig.1074 | Nobutada Omote | |
| Megaphonia (Print-C) | Fig.1075 | Nobutada Omote | |
| Megaphonia (Print-D) | Fig.1076 | Nobutada Omote | |
| Megaphonia (Print-E) | Fig.1077 | Nobutada Omote | |
| Megaphonia (Print-F) | Fig.1078 | Nobutada Omote | |
| Megaphonia (Print-G) | Fig.1079 | Nobutada Omote | |
| Megaphonia (Print-H) | Fig.1080 | Nobutada Omote |
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