
Virginia Overton, Untitled (ladder) (2009)

This was the first ever mixer with crossfader. The Gaumont Chronophone.
In 1910, the French engineer Leon Gaumont demonstrated his sound-and-film synchronizing Chronophone system at the Gaumant Palace in Paris, France. Gaument’s Chronophone had two gramophone platters, between which a deft operator could switch back and forth.
![StijnVanDorpe_gilbert gilbert [de afstand tussen mijn duim en middenvinger], 2010, 21 x 1 cm diam](http://pietmondriaan.com/pm/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/StijnVanDorpe_gilbert-gilbert-de-afstand-tussen-mijn-duim-en-middenvinger-2010-21-x-1-cm-diam.jpg)
Stijn van Dorpe, ‘Gilbert Gilbert (The space between my thumb and my middle finger)’ (2010)