THE VINYL RALLY |
“a ludic, tactile experience of noise art your grandmother would queue to have a go at” - Dan Mackinlay, Realtime. |
The vinyl rally is an large-scale installation combining sound art, video art and kinetic sculpture into every kid and kidult’s dream-hybrid; an immersive participatory play-set playing off vinyl fetishism, video arcade mystique and the machismo of motor sports in a video game played within a real world setting! |
Classic first person video racing is simulated as remote control cars with styli attached, race across a track constructed from a mass of disused vinyl records. Transmitting sound (produced as the styli skim along the vinyl surface) and vision (from wireless spy cameras mounted to each car) to reengineered old school racing consoles with immersive 50” flat screens. Here players navigate the course from the vehicles point of view, not only controlling the cars movements, but also the parameters of the resulting sounds they create via a series of unique audio effects mounted onto the dashboard (by Last Gasp Laboratories) giving each car its own distinct aural flavour. These sounds are emitted from speakers built into the seats causing them to vibrate in correspondence with the movements on screen, producing a personally immersive experience aurally, visually and physically that can only be truly appreciated seated at the controls. |
Photographs & videos from previous exhibitions (click images for slideshow) |
CTM-Festival, Berlin, Germany, January 2013 |
St Martins presented by Colchester Arts Center Colchester, UK October 2012 |
Supersonic Festival, Birmingham, UK, October 2012 |
LÜFTEN; Biennale of music and art @ Jahrhunderthalle Fankfurt, Germany June 2012 |
Sonic Protest @ Palais de Tokyo Paris, France April 2012 |
Trama Festival Porto, Portugal October 2011 |
TodaysArt, Den Hague, Netherlands, October 2011 |
Donau Festival, Krems, Austria, April 2011 |
NIME conference, Sydney, June 2010 |
Upcoming Exhibitions 0805-300613 Previous Exhibitions CTM 2501-240213 for booking inquiries please visit this page |
Paris, April 2012
Porto, October 2011
Brussels, October 2011
Den Hague, October 2011
Sydney, March 2011
|
Devised and Constructed by 
