Hear 100 vinyl copies of The Beatles’ ‘White Album’ played at once

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Happy 45th anniversary of the White Album! Artist Rutherford Chang’s We Buy White Albums project has built up a collection of 902 vinyl copies of The Beatle’s White Album. He has now taken 100 of the records and combined them into one audio recording. From NY Times:

The albums, as it turns out, have also aged with some variety. Some played cleanly, others had scratches, noise from embedded dirt, or vinyl wear. And though the recordings are identical, variations in the pressings, and natural fluctuations in the speed of Mr. Chang’s analogue turntable, meant that the 100 recordings slowly moved out of sync, in the manner of an early Steve Reich piece: the opening of “Back in the U.S.S.R.” is entirely unified, but at the start of “Dear Prudence,” you hear the first line echoing several times, and by “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” the track is a nearly unrecognizeable roar.

Listen below:

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