Scratch

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Contents 1 Music 1.1 Recordings 1.2 Artists 1.3 Techniques 2 Media and entertainment 2.1 Films 2.2 Other 3 Computing 4 Other usage

Scratch may refer to:

[edit] Music

[edit] Recordings

• Scratch (album), by Kaela Kimura
• Scratch (soundtrack), the soundtrack to the film Scratch
• Peter Gabriel (1978 album), a self-titled album often referred to as Scratch
• "Scratch," a song by Morphine on the album Yes

[edit] Artists

• Scratch (musician), American hip-hop artist
• Scratch Orchestra, an experimental musical ensemble
• Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jamaican reggae and dub artist
• Scratch band, a band that plays fungi music
• Scratch Track, an American band

[edit] Techniques

• Scratching, moving a vinyl record back and forth on a turntable
• The technique of playing dampened guitar strings

[edit] Media and entertainment

[edit] Films

• Scratch (2001 film), a documentary about disc jockeys and hip-hop culture
• Scratch, a Danish feature film directed by Anders Gustafsson
• Scratch, a short film directed by Julia Solomonoff

[edit] Other

• Scratch (magazine), a hip-hop magazine
• Scratch Radio, a community radio station in Birmingham, England
• Scratch (robot), a fictional character in the TV show The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
• Scratches (video game)
• Scratch: The Ultimate DJ (video game)

[edit] Computing

• Scratch programming language
• A software system used for color grading
• Scratch is the name of a program that lets users create their own video games^{[citation needed]}. Some^[who?] describe the software as "crude", as the sprite creation function is not as good as it could be, and the software itself is extremely difficult to use.^{[citation needed]} Furthermore the available functionality is highly limited.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Other usage

• Scratch (Gobots), a fictional character
• Scratching (street art), a variation of graffiti
• Scratch golfer, a golfer with a handicap of zero
• Mud fever, an infection found in horses
• Scratch reflex, a response to an itch
• a term in cue sports, such as pool
• a term used in sporting events to describe the deviation of what was scheduled. Most often used in Horse racing to describe horses who cannot run but were scheduled to
• as a short form of scratch track
• a mark or indentation on a surface: Abrasion (mechanical)

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