The Sound+ing Beggar

In Iran, Anahita’s hometown, Ahwaz, is well known due to lots of oil zones in the province. Basically the biggest amount of oil supplement in Iran comps from that province. In any normal world people of that province, let alone people of the whole country, should live a prosperous life. But ironically one of the most popular ways of earning money in her hometown is and has been “Begging”. People are just so used to it that somehow the beggars have become part of the face of the city. Also with the drop of the price on Iranian currency, there are less and less coins being used.
To show the people in her hometown, not only begging does not look alright but also it does not sound so pleasant, I had this idea of picking up the vibrations resulted by coins which pedestrians would throw in her bowl, adding some simple effects to them and present the sound of their action to them as the feedback. Funny enough, many didn’t have coins and since paper bill in a bowl does not make such sound they were forced to search for coins. Many would go few blocks away to different shops and kiosks only to change their bills into coin. She sat on the street wearing full hijab, a bowl with four pickups attached to it and three effect pads under her covers. For the public the sound was so new and unheard of. She received lots of different reactions and feedbacks from public and local press.