Uokahd (tapelake) Video Demonstration

This piece is called "Uokahd" or tapelake. The surface of the sculpture is comprised of 64 sq feet of audiocassette tape that is "read" by a walkman tape head mounted to the underside of a radio control rock playback module. It is very loud in person.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Uokahd
• Tape
• lake
• Sound
• art
• Dan
• Perrone
• cassette
• tape
• noise
• nature
• sculpture
• 3rd
• ward
• circuit
• bending
• guitar

[Edward3D]

Is the tape head very speed controllable or not?

[Uokahd]

The playback module's speed is controllable and the sensitivity&speed can be set on the controller. (ie mins and maxes for throttle and turning radius etc) I find that long slow arcs can generate some pretty interesting tones.

[olcheesyballs]

most pretentious intro ever

[olcheesyballs]

most pretencious intro ever

[aghily]

awesome!

[su7a7sband]

fantastic, like the expansion on ghazala'z concept with the RC car on a larger scale. sweet. is it possible to achieve more conventional vinyl back/forth scratches also?

[xxaperfectcirclexx]

insteed of spending his EXTRA time doing nothing, maybe he puts it to use. i dont see you thinking of idea's like this.

[1011010]

I don't understand the argument. How much time should a person have on their hands? Isn't it ideal to have lots of time, as opposed to, say, sitting in a fockin' cubicle for forty years?

[MrRobertWilsonEsq]

Some people have far to much time on there hands

[silev]

I wonder how long it took to stick all that tape down. I made a much less ambitious version a few years ago, with a tape head mounted on a paint brush handle, and a couple of A4 sheets of tape 'lake'. I thought that was a pretty clever invention, though I later found that Reed Ghazala had come up with it in the 70s. This is by far the best version I've seen, though.

[BeephLypz]

Thats an awesome idea! Imagine doing it with a bunch of old porn movies. Now that would be hilarious.

[midnightmoonshine]

humanity continues to delight me