Graffitis sonoros / Graffitis sonores / Sound graffitis

Eltono and Nuria´s video of an urban artistic action. Doing tags in the street with sound.

This project is based on the idea to translate visual graffiti into another media; In this case: sound. The sound graffitis work with the same characteristics as visual graffiti: A name imposed and unexpected.

The voices you hear are the true voices of Madrid based graffiti artists.

This work was done for the "First Comtemporary Art biennial of Fundacion Once" (A Spanish foundation for blind and disable people) in January 2006 in the "Circulo de Bellas Artes" in Madrid.
More information here:
http://www.eltono.com/img/graffitissonoros/index.htm

http://www.eltono.com
(c) 2006 Eltono & Nuria

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• tag
• sound
• graffiti
• eltono
• nuria
• street
• art
• streetart
• urbanart

[captmanonymous]

quite boring really. some guys saying their names on a recording to get notoriety? lame.

why not simplify the whole concept?

have a small but high output speaker with a battery and device with a loop recording of abstract sound, like dissonance - vuvelzela etc or experimental noise. the device being very small like hand size or less, and it be disguised somewhere hidden and hard to find ?

[eltono440]

@captmanonymous I think you didn't understand the work, the idea was to do Graffiti with a sound stimulus instead of a visual stimulus. It was during an Art Biennial for blind people.

[BLKHRT79]

hahahha...what is it saying?

[eltono440]

The voices are from Madrid based Graffiti writers, they are just saying their name.

[LDJ1931]

@eltono440 And how many blind people was affected by your "stimulus"?

Just a question.

[captmanonymous]

@eltono440

well I think I understood at least an aspect of it. I'm commenting on the content of the sound. Sure its sonic-graffiti, that is, with no visual stimulus. But rather, sound used in a similar way as paint on a wall. I just thought that the sounds could have been more interesting. It was just sounds of different guys saying their names/alias/tag-names etc which I find quite boring.

Instead of graf-artists saying their names, why not have sound textures being played out?

[imperdiblewomanx]

me encanta vuestra obra!

[lordgenji]

"taking graff one step further...?" sheesh... it's a nice idea and all (i guess...), but how does this even *begin* to compare with *actual* graff...? some guy talking into a tape recorder and leaving a jambox someplace...? duuuuulllll...

[bhorde]

a mi me parece gracioso!!

[ZyOpoX]

Menuda puta mierda de video, no tiene sentido alguno

[poskeone]

Romper las barreras sin perder la esencia del moviento, simplemente increible!

PoosOne

[thiothixene]

"not as artistic"!? Wow! If I was simple minded I would want to be you! What the heck are you talking about?! Care to explain why this is not as artistic or does that overpass your capacities?!.. This is great work of ingenuity, taking graffiti one step further and I guess that it will have to wait to take one more step, at least until video can be shown on pieces of paper or until street artist get filthy rich!!..