Splatter

Scraffiti

Label: Citystream Country: UK

"Scraffito is a technique used by artists and craftsmen to create patterns by scratching through an outer surface to reveal different surfaces underneath. It is most frequently used by potters who have to work at high tempo to created decorative patterns by exposing different layers of moist, coloured clay. Unlike drawing, which adds marks to a surface, scraffito creates a negative, recessed image by the process of removing material from the surface. Scraffiti is a kind of violation, an intrusion which is carried out at breakneck speed while the clay is wet, and with the knowledge that the smallest mistake will imperil the success of the whole.

It is hard to resist conjuring up the image of sound being etched onto the surfaces of those soft wax cylinders used for the earliest audio recordings - like scraffito marks made with sound waves instead of hand tools. Scrafitti, however, is improvised music, recorded in binary 0's and 1's, made while the clay is wet, and with the knowledge that the smallest mistake will imperil the success of the whole"-from the liner notes