Lucas Abela, Vynil Rally arcade, installation, 2010 (Photo credit: Lucas Abela)
"The vinyl rally is an large-scale interactive installation combining sound art, sculpture, video art, new media and competitive sports into every kid and kidult’s dream-hybrid; a kinetic, immersive, participatory play-set that combines vinyl fetishism, video arcade mystique and the machismo of motor sports into a video game played within a real world setting!
Classic first person game play is emulated as remote control cars with styli attached, race across a track constructed from a mass of disused vinyl records. Transmitting sound (produced as the styli skim along the vinyl surface) and vision (from wireless spy cameras mounted to the front of each car) to reengineered old school video racing consoles with immersive 50” flat screens. Here players navigate the course from the vehicles point of view, not only controlling the cars movements, but also the parameters of the resulting sounds they create via a series of unique audio effects mounted onto each cars dashboard (by Hirofumi Uchino, from Last Gasp Laboratories) giving each car its own distinct aural flavour." (Lucas Abela)
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Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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