Pictures from “Selekta in Manchester”, an installation work for Futuresonic 2009 – Manchester, UK, 23th – 16th May, 2009.    

A music project played by scanning 2D barcode graffiti across the city. The artist sprays a QR code (two-dimensional bar-code) in the street with a stencil. People who find the graffiti around the city take a snapshot of the code with a mobile phone. This then triggers music – in the form of an internet radio stream created by the artist – on the internet enabled phones.

In this installation, Suzuki musically maps the city of Manchester by using this informative form of graffiti. He is interested in a connection between graffiti and pirate radio. Both are creative expressions that hack into public facilities In the case of graffiti, the hacker uses the wall, In case of pirate radio, the hacker uses public radio waves illegally. It can be said that pirate radio is sound graffiti and Suzuki proposes to combine these two methods of graffiti.