Orbit Kinetic Turntable: See Your Music Move with Flipping Wooden Tiles

[john61ct]

Hmm, TT as performance art? Looked for videos, but maybe just a "design concept" so far

Orbit Kinetic Turntable: See Your Music Move with Flipping Wooden Tiles - Yanko Design

Remember when music was something you could actually see? Not just album art or a Spotify playlist, but something physical that moved and breathed with the beat? Designer Lillian Brown is bringing that tangible connection back with Orbit, a kinetic turntable that literally flips the script on...

www.yankodesign.com

 

[Curvature]

https://www.behance.net/gallery/236565887/Orbit-in-Action

CG clip in the link.

I wonder if any have even been built.

 

[whereisbrian]

It looks like a strange pizza oven.

 

[Ropeburn]

Hmm, TT as performance art? Looked for videos, but maybe just a "design concept" so far

Orbit Kinetic Turntable: See Your Music Move with Flipping Wooden Tiles - Yanko Design

Remember when music was something you could actually see? Not just album art or a Spotify playlist, but something physical that moved and breathed with the beat? Designer Lillian Brown is bringing that tangible connection back with Orbit, a kinetic turntable that literally flips the script on...

www.yankodesign.com

I have so many questions. First of all: where's the fucking tonearm

I've seen this several times: someone comes up with a funny concept and concentrates on it, but completely forgets the basic requirements for it all to work. Lol

 

[BeeKay]

Maybe just the very beginning of us hating AI and CGI even more. Just f&&&ing annoying.

 

[antcollinet]

First of all: where's the fucking tonearm

Just beat me to it.

Then there is all the vibration from those moving tiles being transmitted to the pickup.

 

[Ropeburn]

Just beat me to it.

Then there is all the vibration from those moving tiles being transmitted to the pickup.

Can't have a pickup pick up anything if it's not there.

...that must be it! That's why there's no tonearm and no pickup! Oh I feel stupid now, it's so obvious.

 

[mhardy6647]

I mean... one may do this oneself... more or less... sort of.

How to make a phonotrope video with a camera and turntable

"The phonotrope is a modern version of a zoetrope or phenakistoscope toy that you may have seen or played with," artist Tess Martin explains in this

thekidshouldseethis.com

or...

 

[mhardy6647]

^^^
PS Only the really cool turntables have umlauts in their names.


PPS Is it weird that the word umlaut contains identically zero letters with umlauts? Maybe it's just me...

 

[Sal1950]

There's no end to the silliness that goes on in the vinyl revival.

 

[Ropeburn]

^^^
PS Only the really cool turntables have umlauts in their names.


PPS Is it weird that the word umlaut contains identically zero letters with umlauts? Maybe it's just me...

Umlaut not having an Umlaut is a typically German weird joke that you just don't get.

 

[Palmer]

I know - you scan the actual record / cover with your phone - and the, cough, table then plays it over Bluetooth... And it rotates the record, for looks...

Cheers

 

[Ropeburn]

I know - you scan the actual record / cover with your phone - and the, cough, table then plays it over Bluetooth... And it rotates the record, for looks...

Cheers

Laughs in obscure whitelabels

 

[mhardy6647]

Umlaut not having an Umlaut is a typically German weird joke that you just don't get.

Gewiss! ein Antiwitz...

Antwitz Anti-Jokes

A listener has been baffled for years by a riddle told a German friend. It goes, “What’s the difference between a frog? Answer: The greener it is, the faster it swims.” It’s an example of an antiwitz…

waywordradio.org

 

[Ropeburn]

Gewiss! ein Antiwitz...

Antwitz Anti-Jokes

A listener has been baffled for years by a riddle told a German friend. It goes, “What’s the difference between a frog? Answer: The greener it is, the faster it swims.” It’s an example of an antiwitz…

waywordradio.org

Trains are faster at night than on tracks... you know, at night, when it's colder than outside.

 

[mhardy6647]

Perhaps you can tell from my own attempts at humor that 1) I minored in German and 2) I am a member of not one but two German honor fraternities (from my misspent youth).
Oh, and 3) I am at least 25 percent Deutsch.
I - ahem - will add in closing that I exhibit that legendary German level of patience with idiots virtually all other people, too.

 

[Ropeburn]

2) I am a member of not one but two German humour fraternities (from my misspelled youth).

 

[antcollinet]

There's no end to the silliness that goes on in the vinyl revival.

To be fair there's no end of silliness in all corners of the audio world.

 

[mhardy6647]

... those would be fun groups, no doubt!
The irony of all of this is that I have, to date, managed to spend all of 48 hours in Germany. We had a joint venture of sorts with Boehringer Mannheim (a company that made and sold a wide variety of very specialized biochemicals, proteins, and enzymes to the life science research industry). I visited their facility in Tutzing and gave a talk there. It was not too long after the fall of the Berlin wall and, even way down south, the mood was pretty jubilant everywhere.

... but I, not uncharacteristically, digress.

 

[JSmith]

First of all: where's the fucking tonearm

Underneath its refined form lies a direct-drive motor and a hidden linear-tracking tonearm, an engineering approach inspired by Miniot’s Wheel. By inverting the record so it plays upside down, the industrial designer frees the kinetic tile system to occupy the center stage.

'orbit' kinetic turntable translates sound into motion through flipping wooden tiles

www.designboom.com

JSmith