Marclay-Tinguely Sculpture

The goal of this project was to create a functional record playing device using the works of Christian Marclay and Jean Tinguely as influences.  We were supposed to imagine what would happen if Marclay, who worked with vinyl records and the non-musical sounds they can produce, and Tinguely, who created sculptures out of junk and found objects, met and co-produced a sculpture.  I took a traffic cone from the side of the freeway to use as a gramophone style speaker, and decided from there to use a common theme throughout the piece.  I picked a construction theme using an electric screwdriver to spin the record and a few toolboxes as supports.  The record I picked is Stravinsky's Firebird Suite, which is at times pretty disjunct and complicated, and also simple and elegant.  I tried to convey this by having almost every individual piece loose and not permanently connected to anything while still trying to make it look like an old record player.