Tattoos¹ have always been considered a visual medium, but thanks to an innovative³ blend of art and technology, you can now listen to your skin art by using a smartphone app. Be it the voice of a loved one, your favorite song or a motivational quote, you’ll be able to take it everywhere with you and listen to it anytime you like. 

 

纹身一直以来都被视作一种视觉媒介，但因为有了艺术和科技的创造性融合，现在你可以通过一款智能手机应用倾听你皮肤上的这些艺术作品。无论是一段来自爱人的声音、一首你最喜欢的歌或者是一段励志名言，你都可以把它一直带在身边，随时聆听。
 

 

Los Angeles-based tattoo² artist Nate Siggard came up with the idea for audible tattoos when two friends came in to get the opening line from Elton John's "Tiny Dancer" inked into their skin. The artist's girlfriend casually⁴ said that it would be cool if you could actually listen to it, and her comment was apparently⁵ enough for Nate to pursue this seemingly crazy idea further. 

 

Siggard realized that there was a way to make sound come alive on someone's skin, by tattooing⁶ the sound waves generated by a computer. He tried it out on himself first, inking the voice of his girlfriend and his baby and posting the result on Facebook. It went viral almost instantly, and people started bombarding him with questions and requests for their own soundwave tattoos. And that's how Skin Motion, the company for tattoos that you can listen to was born. 

 

So what's the secret behind this innovative type of tattoos? Well, as I mentioned, it's a blend of classic inking and technology. The Skin Motion website of mobile app allows people to generate a minute-worth of wave pattern of any sound they would like to have on their skin, be it a voice, a song, a dog barking, virtually anything. Once you have the pattern, you have to get it tattooed⁷ onto your skin by a certified⁸ Skin Motion artist, and 24 hours later, the company adds an overlay that gets picked up by your smartphone camera, allowing you to play your skin art whenever you want.

 

For now, the Skin Motion app is still in development, but will launch officially in June 2017. Founder⁹ Nate Siggard is currently focusing on building up a network of certified Skin Motion artists, and is partnering up with tattoo artists all around the world. They will be trained and authorized¹⁰ to perform "soundwave tattoos"'.

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