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YOKOMONO live

by staalplaat soundsystem

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YOKOMONO live 1 33:45 video
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YOKOMONO live 2 29:04
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YOKOMONO live 3 04:34
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YOKOMONO live 4 05:33
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YOKOMONO live 5 02:03
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“delightful wireless symphony” (The wire 2008)
The Staalplaat Mono Erosive Surround Sound Installation.
The installation is inspired by the experience of driving in a car close to the Funkturm (Radio and TV Tower) in Berlin, passing quickly in and out of different radio signals.
The present setup for the YOKOMONO live concert version consists of 10 vinyl killers – toy car record players, each customised with its own fm transmitter. For these killers we made three different loop records (locked groove records) with 55 loop on each side .   The sound will come through a set of radios that receives the signal transmitted by the vinyl killers You might think Yokomono is just a DJ set with 10 turntables, and in a way that is correct but in many more ways Yokomono is completely different. First of all; each killer is mono and has pour sound quality, but much more Yokomono is very hard to handle, you can not really select a track or make it stop when you want to, its more putting the needle down blindfolded. The real difference starts when you realise each killer runs on batteries, meaning the speed is unstable and it will slow down during the concert, the fact that the batteries run out will not only effect the speed but it will effect the fm frequency that the killer is transmitting too.
…The fact that we transmit with 10 fm transmitters at the same time means that each transmitter is effecting the other.
These interference and the unstable media that is transmitting makes the whole set unpredictable and hard to control, making Yokomono unique and adventures.

YOKOMONO got at Prix Ars Electronica 2006 a Honorary Mention Digital Musics

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released July 3, 2023

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staalplaat Amsterdam, Netherlands

Staalplaat is a label for sound artists: an organization network founded in 1982 by Geert-Jan Hobijn. Staalplaat operates many sublabels like: Hond In De Goot, Microwave Recordings, Mort Aux Vaches, Container, ERS, Necrophile Records, God Factory, Korm Plastics Introductionaire, material series, Staaltape our cassette label. ... more

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