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\"Gramophone\" by Wojciech Bruszewski

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”My GRAMOPHONE has 4 arms, 4 acoustic amplifiers and 4 loudspeakers. Each arm (each »needle«) plays independently of the remaining ones.”

What is Wojciech Bruszewski’s GRAMOPHONE? A device to transform any composition recorded on a vinyl disc into a musical canon? A machine to take us to four different moments in time at once? A noise-generating tool? A gruesome monster which is a model of a four-eared human? A prototype of a completely artificial language?

In their double lecture on the quadruple mechanism of playing vinyl discs, Michał Libera and Daniel Muzyczuk will talk to you about the theory of echo, the monophonic and quadrophonic sound and the 3-D recording. They will “test” a device designed by the artist: they will check and listen, together with the audience, to a selection of discs. They will get back to their deliberations on the relations between sound and picture in the history of film and present other multi-headed gramophones and needles that read information stored in the sutures of human craniums and in broken vinyl discs. They will collate the “GRAMOPHONE” with other works of the artist and with several different machines which listen instead of us.

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