AUDIO BOMBING
I found this to be very inventive and creative for the urban art world. I myself am not a graffiti artist, but I grew up around many of them and appreciate the graffiti scene. This piece amazed me because of its simplicity in materials and because of its low profile presence. Basically, the medium is magnetic audio tape (regular cassette tape). Record whatever you wish, remove the tape and cut out the segments to be used. Then you “tag” your tape segments in your local urban environment. you then listen to the tag by running a “playhead spray can” over the tape. The prototype used a cassette player with casings removed. After removing the casing the play head was dismantled from the circuit board, so that it functioned externally.
This piece was very inspiring and interesting because I never thought of graffiti or bombing as an audio form-EVER! There are many graffiti pieces that please the eye, but nothing in the graff world is audio (as far as bombing is concerned). The idea that one can bomb the city-inconspicuously-with AUDIO bombs instead of visual is great!! First of all, they would be harder to find, versus a big graff piece on a wall. This already changes the notion of what graffiti is. Furthermore, the shift from visual bombs to audio bombs opens the door to a whole new way of spreading urban art. After all, the city would be better with some audio bombs to go along with the beautiful visuals already provided through graffiti.
I found this to be very inventive and creative for the urban art world. I myself am not a graffiti artist, but I grew up around many of them and appreciate the graffiti scene. This piece amazed me because of its simplicity in materials and because of its low profile presence. Basically, the medium is magnetic audio tape (regular cassette tape). Record whatever you wish, remove the tape and cut out the segments to be used. Then you “tag” your tape segments in your local urban environment. you then listen to the tag by running a “playhead spray can” over the tape. The prototype used a cassette player with casings removed. After removing the casing the play head was dismantled from the circuit board, so that it functioned externally.
This piece was very inspiring and interesting because I never thought of graffiti or bombing as an audio form-EVER! There are many graffiti pieces that please the eye, but nothing in the graff world is audio (as far as bombing is concerned). The idea that one can bomb the city-inconspicuously-with AUDIO bombs instead of visual is great!! First of all, they would be harder to find, versus a big graff piece on a wall. This already changes the notion of what graffiti is. Furthermore, the shift from visual bombs to audio bombs opens the door to a whole new way of spreading urban art. After all, the city would be better with some audio bombs to go along with the beautiful visuals already provided through graffiti.