Folded Sound: Mikiphone & Peter Pan

[Aurea]

How often do we really get to see these tiny palm-sized gramophones the way they were meant to be experienced: unfolded, assembled, handled, and brought into use?

As part of the Talking Machines exhibition project, I developed two short stop-motion films dedicated to two remarkable ultra-portable gramophones: the Swiss Mikiphone and the British Peter Pan.

What interested me most while working with these machines was that they are almost impossible to fully understand when simply placed inside a display case. Their logic only really appears through movement: unfolding them, assembling them, fitting the parts together, and watching these miniature objects transform into fully functional talking machines.

The films were conceived partly as visual studies of the machines themselves, and partly as demonstrations of how these extraordinarily compact gramophones were actually handled and brought into use.

Folded Sound: Mikiphone
https://youtu.be/pNXgZNug0Sw

 

Folded Sound: Peter Pan
https://youtu.be/kKmCGw87Wwo

 

[phonogfp]

These demos are great!  Instructive, yet somehow whimsical.  I think it's the subtle sound effects that I like.  Nice job!

 

George P.