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gramophone is an old-fashioned device that plays music or recorded audio by using a needle to read grooves on a rotating disk. It's like an ancestor of the modern record player.
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Marclay is known as a pioneer in the use of
gramophone records and turntables as musical instruments to create sound collages, according to MoMA.
Known for his use
of gramophone records and turntables as musical instruments to create the sound collages, Marclay for the occasion of his new exhibition Six New Animations, uses thousands of images of the payment beneath his feet, routinely snapped photographs of commonly discarded objects he finds during his walks.
I am guessing minus ten and moonlight, and then I will stoke the fire, put a record on the
old gramophone with Billie Holiday's voice almost a whisper, like when I heard her in the Oslo Colosseum some time in the 50s, almost burned out, yet still magic, and then fittingly get drunk on a bottle I have standing by in the cupboard.
During 2009 - 2010 Aura has been artist - in - residence at the Ear Institute, where she completed a film
on gramophone grooves and sound inscriptions, funded by the Wellcome Trust.
Stroh instruments — traditional string instruments customised
with gramophone pick - ups and horns by the 19th - century acoustic engineer Augustus Stroh to improve the volume and directionality of their sound — are a favourite of Kolkowski's.
Fantastical elements
like gramophone trumpet lampshades blend flawlessly with upcycled furnishings like a herb garden bathtub, and a feature wall of distressed drawerfronts that can be pulled out and used as high tables.
The artist's narrative will unfold inside Glyndor Gallery, while
gramophone horns will be installed around the property to transmit the sounds heard in the gardens.
A lathe used in the cutting of master recordings is attached at the back and there is a crank handle at the side, which is reminiscent of an old - fashioned 78 - rpm
gramophone player.
An improviser and sound artist known for his work with antique recording technology — wax cylinders, giant acoustic horns, hand - cranked machinery and so on — Kolkowski is constructing an installation piece involving
gramophones playing sounds derived from freehand drawings collected from visitors to the Whitechapel Gallery (see illustration).
The obstacle to recovery lies in the normal rule exemplified by the House of Lords» case of Addis
v Gramophone Co [1909] AC 488, [1908 - 10] All ER Rep 1, namely that damages in contract will not be awarded for mental distress or anguish.
In Edwards Nicol J applied age - old law to hold (under Addis v
Gramophone Co [1909] AC 488, [1908 - 10] All ER Rep 1) that there can be no general damages for wrongful dismissal in relation to matters such as hurt feelings or loss of career and that his only entitlement here was wages for what should have been his notice period plus a little extra for the time it would have taken to use the proper contractual procedure (the «Gunton extension», as it is known to employment lawyers).
Phonograph Music Player — Phonograph Music Player, earlier known
as Gramophone, is a beautiful sleek and overall aesthetically pleasing visual example of what a material design music player should look like.
Asif Kapadia bagged a Grammy Award for his film «Amy»; while sitarist Anoushka Shankar failed to take home the prestigious
golden gramophone for her album «Home».
The young Viner found inventive ways to stimulate his wide - ranging curiosity: he played Beethoven to himself on a wind -
up gramophone, and detonated objects with homemade explosives.
Gramophone provides farmers doorstep consultancy services in agronomy during the entire crop cycle through its app.
Info Edge said in a stock - exchange filing that it will have a 25 % stake in
Gramophone after this initial investment.
Ever since Enrico Caruso was first pressed on one of those scratchy, one - sided 78s for Mr. Edison's
new gramophone machine, nearly every musical performer has felt compelled to issue a Christmas album, and the sheer bulk of that music adds up to more than anyone could listen to in a thousand holidays.
If you want something that's truly going to look old but give you all the sound quality that you like this
Pyle Gramophone is definitely going to do it.
EARLY in the 20th century, people with avant - garde taste could fill their homes with music played on
concrete gramophones.
If only Tinder had some audio certification that he didn't sound like cartoon character, a golden
gramophone emoji.
Well, the Grammy people don't normally hand out their statuettes alt - country luminaries such as Steve Earle and Lucinda Williams, let alone, six of them, which is how many
gilded gramophones the recovering alcoholic has won over her Shania Twain - like career.
It contains more than 170 carefully selected sound samples of drums, percussions, bass, melodic instruments and
gramophone scratches.
Hidden Gramophones await discovery that churns out Wise's classic 16 - bit melodies from the SNES era, whilst the new compositions themselves do much to match the thrills of the Kong family's crazed quest.
On the terrace overlooking the Old Port, take your dreamlike journey inwards as you lose yourself in the sound of the
bluetooth gramophone.
Compulsion Games is a team of 6 guys and 2 girls, based out of an old
gramophone factory in Saint Henri, Montreal.
You could wander into an old school and have some Michaela Meises to yourself, linger (under the cover of an awning) to take in Ugo Rondinoe's monumental sculpture in the main plaza, and then head to the back of the Basler Münster church to see a mysterious new piece by Alicja Kwade, a trio of
large gramophone - like sculptures with small clocks ticking within them.
We partnered with industrial designer Steffen Kehrle to create a
unique gramophone - inspired standing speaker for Handmade, Wallpaper *'s annual art and design event.
Jónófón strips down a technology that is hidden to most people and copys the design of the classic
heavy gramophone.
Sure you can get speakers for your iPhone, but why not add an old school edge to your living room with a
cool gramophone?
There's nothing like a living room design idea with a bit of mood lighting and an old -
fashioned gramophone to get the party started...
Quirky pieces such as a
vintage gramophone or a film - set style standard lamp will really set the scene.
Among the unlikely components McQueen imagines are
gramophone horns installed into a favorite chestnut tree, so that writing outdoors, in the afternoons, Clemens would still be able to hear his beloved's daily singing.
James Dougherty of the University of Notre Dame describes the modern city as «never silent; it speaks with a voice of its own, the voice of false prophets in Jerusalem, of sophists in Athens and Carthage,
of gramophones and television in London and Wichita.
Ploughing through the new «Synthesis Report» put out by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), we may be reminded of one of those
old gramophone records, when the needle got horribly stuck in a groove.
In Addis
v Gramophone Co [1909] AC 408, the plaintiff was not entitled to the «harsh and humiliating way» in which his contract of employment had been broken.
This is
Gramophone's pre-Series A funding round, a person with direct knowledge of the development told TechCircle.
Gramophone will use the money to expand its customer base to one million farmers over the next six to 12 months, and build customised tech products to solve their individual needs, the person added.
Like the old - school technology our children won't experience, fixed line phones with cords are about as relevant to our children as
the gramophone was to us.
The device converts the analogue signal from
a gramophone pick - up into digital code.
Last week, EMI's classical division received
the Gramophone award for its first collection of restored mono recordings by Elgar, and was still promising that future releases would include a «previously unpublished true stereo version».