Scratch

(…) In Scratch, the word not only becomes object, visually and phenomenally, but produces sound objects. The word is also, most likely, enacted by the interacting viewer, whose footwear is apt to scratch the trodden copies. In Scratch, space operates on several levels. There is the visual space around and within the word on the record grooves, the sonic space around the clicks, the physical space within which the installation resides, and the space that the artist affords the viewer for the making of her own choices., there being no overt invitations or prohibitions specified within or outside the work. (…) - Paul Dutton

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Notes and Songs from the Pan American Highway, W. Mark Sutherland:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJPFTyXouFY

Oral Cavity, W. Mark Sutherland:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuvAhTISXWA

Cross Rhythm and White Noise, Nobuo Kubota and W. Mark Sutherland:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqfOjOqo8F