Reapers

Technology shortens. Abstractly and physically technology trims, cuts, and shortens all it encounters. For example email, mobile phones and the internet shorten the time and abstract distance of communication. The physicality of the mobile phone itself mimics this aspect as it grows shorter and shorter in size, no longer spanning the distance from ear to mouth. Technology's own life grows shorter due to our insatiable consumption and short attention span. As for human life, while pharmaceutical technology might lengthen existance (but often does the opposite), the life lived is abstractly "shorter" in every instance including travel, relationships etc.(courting is often done online, and set up as a business transaction).

This installation of razors embodies this abstract and physical shortening that technology imposes. The razors are technology that shorten hair, the abrasive music created is the result of the shortening process.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• mobile
• phones
• experimental
• instruments
• UCLA
• Design
• Media
• Arts