Vinyl 2.0
Experiment and possibility of materiality of records in the 21st century
Alternative materials for the production of records
The record experiences its rebirth. Sales figures have been increasing for more than 10 years. All factories worldwide are running at full speed in order to be able to deliver the quantities. The same raw material has been used for 70 years: PVC. A material that has been increasingly avoided by architects and designers over the last 30 years. Above all, the production and disposal of PVC is environmentally harmful. Why has a change of material not yet arrived in the record industry? After all, we already owned ultra-modern, organically based plastics that can achieve something similar to PVC.
In the first part of my experiment I started looking for alternative materials and explored the possibilities of making vinyl replicas at home.
In the second part of my work I am currently trying to develop an organically based plastic that replaces vinyl in industrial record production.
Cooperation with Ameise-Schallplattenpresserei, Hamburg and R. A. N. D. Muzik Record Manufacturing, Leipzig.
since 2015