Video: Burning vinyl records: what to do with the trash in the closet?
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Many of us probably have pre-digital artifacts at home: audio tapes, reels, vinyl records. Someone just keeps them, someone has already thrown them away or is going to do it. Here comes the Australian artist Scott Marr uses such outdated media in his work.
Scott Marr can be creatively compared to Erika Iris Simmons, who creates portraits of famous musicians from old audio cassettes. But the Australian went even deeper in this regard. When creating his works, he uses old vinyl records released from the early twentieth century to the present day.
Moreover, Scott Marr does not carve on them, he burns out on them, as others burn on wood. He even uses the same device for this process.
Moreover, in his works, Marr tries to stylistically highlight the time at which this or that vinyl record was created. That is, he leaves a sticker on it with the name of the group and composition, the outgoing data of the release, but he processes the rest with the help of a burning machine.
So the works of Scott Marr are old musical records that have turned into a cross between a sieve, a grid and a graphic illustration that represents stylistic representations of the design of their time from different years.
In addition to purely aesthetic goals, Scott Marr, creating these of his works, according to him, wanted to extend the life of old vinyl records. Albeit in a completely different way for them. Otherwise, they would very soon end up in a landfill along with audio tapes, reels, videotapes and floppy disks. CDs are on the way too!
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