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Scratch Track (2009)
Scratch Track is a
performance that comments on the increasing isolation from natural
sensory experiences that technology provides. In a society where white
earbuds, Midas shocks and Nike soles predominate, the performance aims
to reconnect urban dwellers to the street byintervening in their daily
routines. The project emplos the use of a pedestrian-drawn vehicle, a
red children's wagon, to convey a mobile FM transmitting platform that
will broadcast a playback of the street. This will be made possible by
a specially-constructed tone-arm, or stylus, that will drag on the
pavement behind the wagon. Attached
to this stylus is an analog accelerometer (a sensor that amplifies
small motions in three dimensions) that will provide the audio
signal for broadcast.
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