UJINO AND THE ROTATORS
2005. Live performance at Wallter
Phillips Gallery, Banff, Canada
Copyright ©2005 Ujino Muneteru, All rights reserved.
The Rotators
The Rotators are designed to be the unit of
instruments in a rhythm
section for automatic playing. The core section to control the unit is
named
Rotatorhead.
The structure of Rotatorhead is same with that of
disk type music box. Set the disc onto the turntable. The disk is made
from vinyl disc and shortend color pencils embedded on the disc's
surface. The uniform rhythm starts, when the pencil hits the switches
attached over the bridge part to turn on/off home electrics plugged
into
connectors.
The bridge part contains 3 tracks. the each switch of each track links
to an electric connector, and that's mean, a rhythm consists of 3
different sounds made up from 3 home electrics connected to the
plugs.
Kataoka Mami
Senior Curator. Mori Art
Museum; International Curator,
Hayward Gallery
Ujino and the Rotators:
A 21st century style of art
English-1
English-2
Japanese-1
Japanese-2
Art it, No. 23, (spring),
90-93 (2009)
Movies on the Web
Hobnox Channels, Web TV
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
YouTube, rotators channel
Fig; The Rotators on stage
Diagram of the Rotators sound
system in art gallery