WTH is this turntable?

[danger boy]

very odd looking turntable it mixes old school turntable with new type computer electronics and features a optical cartridge stylus.

For this project we wanted to merge several of the most crucial audio technology inventions from the previous century into a hybrid object. The inspiring technologies include the phonograph, optical sound on film, the amplified guitar, and the computer. Each represents a different approach to generating, transmitting and/or encoding vibrations, from the spatial through the electrical and optical to digital bits, and each with its own expressive leverages and characteristic morphologies. This project embodies a continuum of audio technology interaction from the most physical hands-on of the vibrating string, to the abstracted turntable control of pre-recorded data, to non-physical control data in optical and electronic form, and finally to the completely abstracted and malleable digital domain.

http://www.grahamwakefield.net/MAT-S...instrument.htm

[Fongolio]

I honestly think it's some kind of joke. Not very good though.

[comfortablycurt]

I honestly think it's some kind of joke. Not very good though.

I'm inclined to agree with you. I can't see what possible purpose having guitar strings on a turntable could serve.

[unc2701]

It's not a turntable. It's a musical instrument/ art project that happens to use a turntable as it's basis.

[hearingimpared]

It looks like Dr. Frankinstein created it.

[reeltrouble1]

I understand it perfectly.

RT1

[Marty913]

I understand it perfectly.

RT1

Yep, it's one of those subliminal messages. If you touch this turntable, you're gonna get spanked.

The turntable looks like one of those mid-80'a quartz-locked Technics like maybe a SL-QL1. Not sure about the paddle but I had a girlfriend once....never mind.