Raw hard disk sound
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In Valentina Vuksic's Harddisko, defective hard disks are collected from various PC shops, companies and institutions. Each of the 16 hard drive's casing is being removed and a special sound pickup is mounted on the drive's read head and connected to a sound mixer.
As soon as a drive recieves power, it conducts an initialization procedure with the heads moving in a specific pattern and generating sounds. These patterns vary throughout different manufactors, models, production series, firmware versions and the disk's history. The drives of the exhibit are placed within several individually controllable power circuits using interval switched power supplies.
Harddisko is exhibited at Aarau in Switzerland, through April 2. Via neural. |
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Let’s start the party by simply collecting old hard drives from the junkyard or PC shops, remove their casings, mounting a special sound pickup on the drive's read head, hooking it to a sound mixer and the Harddisko is ready to rock you. Valentina... Read More
Valentina Vuksic has taken one out of the Gizmodo book and has created a sound mixer that gets its beats from dying hard drives. If you recall, Gizmodo had a Hard Drive Dying Track Contest back in January. Vuksics project,... Read More
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I wonder how long until musicians take technological approaches like this and co-opt it into a mainstream sell-able sound.
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well, a little late, but also sweet, this one is using the harddrives as speakers.
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