Vinyl

Vinyl

If you are old enough to remember when everybody had record players, you know the analog satisfaction of having your music played this way. Records were replaced by cassettes, and then CDs, before everybody streamed their music. This practice, vinyl, is all about our yearning for the analog. For things that are things: tangible objects that we can understand. There is a certain hunger we have to be able to see the workings of something, be it mechanical, such as a bicycle, or a typewriter, or a record player. There is something in us that settles when we can perceive the mechanism, when it hasn't become so profoundly miniaturized and abstract. In the analog there is a call back to a time before the machine. Something deep in us hungers for this, and needs it.