I decided that I wanted to somehow physically work with or alter sound, but I was thinking more along the lines of making from scratch my own record player and records. Then, while looking around through Wikipedia I came across the concept of "anti-records," produced by the label RRRecords in the late 80's.
"An anti-record is a musical vinyl record which has been treated (melted, drilled, painted, etc.) so that it becomes a noise record. While this term was first used by LAYLAH Records on conventional vinyl releases by Current 93, Nurse With Wound and others, Ron Lessard of RRRecords applied the term to a series of physically altered records released by RRR in 1988. Anti-records can also be records featuring strange configurations or pressing, such as extra or unusually sized holes, locked grooves, and parallel grooves. "
An example of one (the video is kind of loud)
I had been working with the idea of creating my own "records" by engraving grooves onto surfaces, but this wasn't working. I hadn't thought about taking a premade record and altering it, and this idea inspired me to do what I did. Then I made all those records, etc.
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