Revolutions Per Minute

Revolutions Per Minute

Revolutions per Minute
2013–2016

Eradicated 7-inch vinyl records, labels, sleeves, one-minute audio

Series of resurfaced 7-inch vinyl records pairing manifesto titles with commercially produced singles. Each record is physically altered by sanding away the grooves, leaving fragments of vinyl across the surface.

During playback, the stylus moves through this unstable material, both reading and displacing it. Sound emerges as skips, loops, scratches, and intermittent traces of the original recording. Without intact grooves, each side plays for less than one minute.

As the debris continually shifts, no two playbacks are identical. The record becomes an improvised instrument, where language, sound, and ideology are reduced to unstable signals. 

Revolutions per Minute
2013–2016
Eradicated 7-inch vinyl records, labels, sleeves, one-minute audio