New Optigan Disc - RADIOAKTIVOX

[mellotrongirl]

The cover looks a little like the 50 Ft Hose "Cauldron" LP--a great early old "electronic" LP from the 60's. Kinda reminds me of Gary Numan's Tubeway Army meets really early Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

[The2010SnowDay]

how do you make the optigan discs?

[dnvlgm1]

fucking faggot just play the damn thing and shut the fuck up

[CaptainSiberia]

Is there some reason you can't say Kraftwerk?

Fantastic! What a fun little disc that is!

[Keijz74]

Cool :o)#

[Chesterton7]

cool

[mellotrongirl]

The sine wave sweep must wreak havoc on the little Mattel speakers (ha!). I'd like to see Vox Humana...with an album cover too. The artwork for Radioaktivox is superb. 50 Ft. Hose, Silver Apples, Mother Mallard, Spektakel, Lothar & The Hand People take note!

[richragsdale]

this is very exciting

[Bellyflops2]

Love Roberts and yours??? optigon cd's I play them more then my Beatles. Make another one please.

Love

Mr Wilson

[ellewebb]

Great project!

[Lachlant1984]

How do you create these disks? That really sounds very much like Kraftwerk.

[KosmynC64]

Yeah that is what I wanted to say,awesomely cool.

[CrossCuntryFranco]

That is the band that he was referring to... My question is how did they get it to sound like the Orchestron choir in those albums ("Radio-Aktivitaet", "Trans Europa Express", and "Die Mensch Maschine").

[zurtur]

Kraftwerk USED Oprigan or Orchestron to make that Records !!! :)

[CrossCuntryFranco]

I was talking about "they" as in the guys who made the Optigan disks...

[CaptainSiberia]

@CrossCuntryFranco They're the curators of all the original Optigan/Orchestron session tapes, that's how!

[CaptainSiberia]

@Lachlant1984 Well, the discs are celluloid, just like film stock. They spin around completely once every 2 seconds. Imagine that instead of having a full-length movie printed on a long strip of film, you have a spinning disc with several selectable 2-second looped movies printed in rings; that's what this is. But instead of pictures, you have sound, and it's the same optical technology that they used to use for film soundtracks: each ring is a long, thin picture of an audio waveform read with a

[CaptainSiberia]

light and a sensor. Now that we have computers, they can easily author a waveform image that will loop smoothly. Most likely discs are photographic prints just like movies on film, in which case they are made with an optical printer. You know the drill: you print the image onto the disc with light, develop the disc in a bath of chemicals, and it's done. And of course machines do the hard work. I could be wrong; it could be a process that uses ink. But it's most likely photographic.