For more than thirty years now, record players have been more than mere players in the technical sense of the word; they have developed into independent musical instruments and the focal points of experimental music and club culture. Starting with the radio DJs of the 50s up to today´s turntablism, a whole universe of musical styles, techniques, and streams have grown around the vinyl disc. eRikm and dieb 13, true masters of this instrument, the record player are interacting with videoartist Billy Roisz, spinning the vinyl for the visual part of the show.
The use of the turntable as an musical instrument is rooted in the techniques of other artistic fields like painting (collage), literature (cut-up) or film (montage). Hence the project LÄUSE is playing with the interleaving between the various art branches, bringing back and forward the impact on each other´s manipulation on the medium. Therefor on the visual side Billy Roisz is using various types of cameras (e.g. microscope cam) to go deep into the grooves and scratches of the vinyl, the structure of the label, the messages on the picture discs. Another link between sound and image is a direct analog transfer of the audiosignal into a video image - into abstract patterns, lines, colors.