flo is introducing the direct to beer mastering

the sound of the pro's ! get a licence today!

first of all. i dont drink beer. but i was always attracted to those
nice long cylindric beer cans..and of course also to thomi E's great idea of the phonograph....
like all the ethnologist in late 19th century going to foreign countires cutting untouched tribes into edison cylinders.
i wanted to do the same.nowadays on well crowded places. asking people for their voice. they can drink the beer.
i can keep the recording..what a deal. what an archive....
but lets see the pictures



i took pieces of the first kingston dubcutter prototypes. for the linear mechanism
..some other nuts and bolts..
an old audax recording head will do it for the beginning and
a shitty handcrank...later i use a motor
also the tooth-belt has to be ordered. but for first test it works like this.

on june 26th 2006 i did the first cutting. unmodulated. the cutting stylus is a hand sharpened steel nail.
so for sound tests i gonna use sapphire styli for sure.
i hope to cut some sound next few days
also the reproduction is not solved yet....just a little detail

july 10th 2006. now i improved some stuff. the centering of the can was not very good. also i wanted to get more levels
so i had to attach the grampian head...yes.yes. this gives much more levels on the beer.
now i just have to coonstruct the reproducer..hope to get that this week.







at august 26th there was the first performance of durchdrehen.for the homemade event ,which took place in several swiss citys a collaboration of strotter inst and flo kaufmann was showed in solothurn.
strotter inst. started with drinking tunes on vinyl records flo did remix the sound signals he received from strotter and did cuts into 500cl beer cans.







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last update: flo 27.6.2006