Film recreates digital sound waves with vinyl records

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by Edward Moyer

The project, a promo video for the single “I Will Never Change” by dubstep producer Benga, uses 960 records, along with stop-motion animation, to replicate the sound-wave forms of Benga’s tune — and create the sort of visual we’ve become used to seeing in GarageBand, Pro Tools, and other digital music programs. The Us design duo of Christopher Barrett and Luke Taylor explains the process on their Web site:

“Once we had the idea, the next problem was trying to figure out how to actually do it. At first it was a lot of maths homework, calculating the number of records per second against the frame rate. It worked out to be 960 records would be the equivalent of 1 minute and 20 seconds worth of wave form. Each one had to be individually cut to a specific size, hand labeled, hand numbered, and then finally polished. We would say just that process took seven full working days alone.”

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