Submerged Turntable, A Sound Installation Featuring a Functioning Submerged Record Player

The interactive sound installation “Submerged Turntable” by artist Evan Holm features a record player submerged in a pool of inky black water. As this video shows, the record player actually works. This making-of video shows how the installation was constructed.

There will be a time when all tracings of human culture will dissolve back into the soil under the slow crush of the unfolding universe. The pool, black and depthless, represents loss, represents mystery and represents the collective subconscious of the human race. By placing these records underneath the dark and obscure surface of the pool, I am enacting a small moment of remorse towards this loss. In the end however this is an optimistic sculpture, for just after that moment of submergence; tone, melody and ultimately song is pulled back out of the pool, past the veil of the subconscious, out from under the crush of time, and back into a living and breathing realm.

via Colossal