SCRATCH ALPHABET
digital work


2023



SCRATCH ALPHABET is a collection of audio segments of historical French hip hop tracks. The initials of each track correspond to a letter of the alphabet.
These audio segments follow each other with a gap between them, without a sound deck as in the traditional format of the scratching culture; in this way they can overlap with other tracks, which are often hip hop bases.

SCRATCH ALPHABET also functions, together with its graphic component, as a system for communicating with hands and to produce new sounds. Respecting the basic movements of scratching - i.e. the coordinated movement of the vinyl, crossfader and fader - a new body language emerges which can be spatially transcribed.