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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