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The Phonotrope

The Phonotrope is a modern evolution of the Zoetrope, a device that produces the illusion of motion from a rapid succession of static pictures.

Specifically it uses the revolutions of a traditional record player (18, 33, 45 and 78rpm) combined with the frame rate of a modern digital moving image camera (25 or 30 frames per second) to produce the illusion of motion from the series of static pictures or models arrayed around the circumference of the record deck.

Although the term was coined by Jim Le Fevre in March 2011, replacing the much more wordy Phonographantasmascope to describe his work since 2006/2007, there are many examples of people discovering this technique independently before that.

chuuu

Chuuu is a Japanese artist who works in illustration and graphics with a wide range of mixed media his Phonotrope dates back to 2005

Eric Dyer

Eric Dyer is an artist, filmmaker, experimental animator, and educator who exhibits his Phonotropes as much as he makes independent films with them. His personal film 'Bellows March' is a 5'30" film poetically constructed using multiple discs. He has exhibited at Siigraph (2008) and Sundance (2007).

Sculpture

Sculpture is Dan Hayhurst and Reuben Sutherland, a DJ/Visuals duo from London, UK. They create music and visuals and have released two collections of their music on Phonotropic Vinyl Picture-disc. As well as their experimentation in Phonotropes they make films in their own right.

Jim Le Fevre

Jim Le Fevre is a film maker mostly working in Animation. He discovered his version of the Phonontrope in October 2006 and has since presented talks about is (V&A 2007, Interesting 2009, Los Angeles Moma 2011) as well as creating short idents for MTV and a title sequence for Hillbilly Film's 'Holy Flying Circus' with it.

As a freelance commercials director he is represented by Nexus Productions in London.