French sound artist Julia Drouhin, has recreated the sounds of
everything from Michael Jackson, to Bill Haley and the Comets, to
Electric Light Orchestra.

Ms Drouhin has spent the past three years refining her sound, made
possible by silicone moulds and pouring chocolate, as part of her
Sweet Tribology project.

"They can be played, listened to and eaten," Ms Drouhin said of her
records.

"It's still unpredictable [the sound], which is what I want."

Ms Drouhin came up with the idea of creating edible records after a
chance discovery at the Sound Preservation Association.

"I discovered thousands of wax cylinders from 1880 and we could
actually listen to them," Ms Drouhin said.

Turning the moulds into chocolate records

With the help of local sculptor Ian Munday, Ms Drouhin starts by
making silicone moulds for her chocolate records from pinkysil
silicone putty.
Julia Drouhin eats the sweet sounds of music if she doesn't like what
she hears.
Photo: Julia Drouhin eats the sweet sounds of music if she doesn't
like what she hears.

Each mould takes two to four hours to make and when completed, the
melting, freezing, removing of the mould and preserving the chocolate
at room temperature takes almost 24 hours' work for Ms Drouhin.

This process is essential to prevent the records from melting and
warping the sounds.

There are unique problems that Ms Drouhin has encountered while making
her sound art.

She explained that the combinations of nuts with dark chocolate
damages the sound quality of each record and become unstable due to
the bumps the needle encounters.

However food dyes and coconut give the records a different flavour and
aesthetic appeal while spinning durably on a turntable.

"The darker it [the chocolate] is, the better it is," Ms Drouhin said.

"Sometimes the needle goes through in one go ... sometimes you can
play it 10 times," she said.

"Any bumps or accidents, they make interesting sounds."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-0...ecords/6607014

That's some chocolate I'd love to hear and taste, especially since I love those
acoustic wax cylinder recordings.

On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 20:57:45 -0400, Orlando Enrique Fiol
> wrote:

>That's some chocolate I'd love to hear and taste, especially since I love those
>acoustic wax cylinder recordings.

I still buy and play vinyl, but have progressed to 45s and 33 & 1/3

On 7/12/2015 8:58 PM, wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 20:57:45 -0400, Orlando Enrique Fiol
> > wrote:
>
>> That's some chocolate I'd love to hear and taste, especially since I love those
>> acoustic wax cylinder recordings.
>
> I still buy and play vinyl, but have progressed to 45s and 33 & 1/3
>
You relic.

In article >,
wrote:
>
>On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 20:57:45 -0400, Orlando Enrique Fiol
> wrote:
>
>>That's some chocolate I'd love to hear and taste, especially since I love those
>>acoustic wax cylinder recordings.
>
>I still buy and play vinyl, but have progressed to 45s and 33 & 1/3 prefer
to imbibe that music in digitized form and often do my own remasters to improve
sonic clarity and reduce surface noise.

On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 23:34:05 -0400, Orlando Enrique Fiol
> wrote:

>In article >,
>wrote:
>>
>>On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 20:57:45 -0400, Orlando Enrique Fiol
> wrote:
>>
>>>That's some chocolate I'd love to hear and taste, especially since I love those
>>>acoustic wax cylinder recordings.
>>
>>I still buy and play vinyl, but have progressed to 45s and 33 & 1/3

>prefer
>to imbibe that music in digitized form and often do my own remasters to improve
>sonic clarity and reduce surface noise.

Most of the music I play is digital, in the form of lossless files
ripped from CDs and stored on this PC. From there it goes to a DAC,
then to whichever preamp/amp/ etc. I have set up at the time (I have a
few, mostly restored vintage gear. I guess it's a hobby of mine).

That said, I still like good quality vinyl as I really do prefer the
analogue sound, I often find digitised music fatiguing to listen to
and you lose subtle detail.

It all depends on the mastering etc. of course. Some digital is very
good and not fatiguing to listen to at all. Most people aren't
sensitive to the differences, but some are.

I also like the whole vinyl process, handling the record, putting it
on and you get the album cover art and other stuff which you don't
really get on CDs. I often buy both CD and vinyl if I really like a
particular release.

On 7/12/2015 10:39 PM, wrote:
> Most of the music I play is digital, in the form of lossless files
> ripped from CDs


Iow, you're a damned copyright infringing rabbit-killing ASSSHOLE@!

DROP DAMNED DAD!

On 7/14/2015 4:29 AM, Acme Bully Control wrote:
> On 7/12/2015 10:39 PM, wrote:
>> Most of the music I play is digital, in the form of lossless files
>> ripped from CDs
>
>
> Iow, you're a damned copyright infringing rabbit-killing ASSSHOLE@!
FRAUD!