Here’s What a Record Painted With Conductive Ink Sounds Like

Conductive pigment is incredibly nerveless — it lets you produce a circuit on virtually any material , fromhuman bodiesto aconcrete rampart . But a track record ? That ’s novel .

Feild Craddock and Shruti KNR , two investigator at theCopenhagen Institute of Interaction Design , uploaded a video explaining how they used the pigment to make music . They start out with simple , disk - sized pieces of white composition . Then , using the metallic ink and manifest erstwhile black lead , they drew the “ sounds ” that would act as circuits . “ Conductive blusher and resistive graphite were used to draw functioning lap on paper magnetic disk , ” they excuse . “ When the synthesiser completes the circuit its sales pitch is changed by the deviate ohmic resistance of the graphite strips . ”

In the video , which was featured onProsthetic Knowledgethis week , you ’ll see that the phonograph needle stays in the middle of the record , where the label normally is . You ’re fundamentally seeing a round-eyed circumference on paper , with the arms providing the delivery . It ’s a pretty neat effect — if you desire to try it for yourself , youcan buy some of the ink yourself .