Sonic Fabric

Do you still have a cassette deck in your home stereo system? I bet many people still have some old tapes somewhere catching dust in a shoe box under the bed. Well, with Sonic Fabric you can wear those old mix tapes.

Sonic Fabric, created by Alyce Santoro, is woven from 50% prerecorded audio cassette tape and 50% cotton. And it can even be played. While moving a special glove with a tape head over the fabric, a mixture of recordings can be heard.  

The original sounds on the tapes are influential recordings in Santoro's life, from her high school punk band to ambient city street noises, the Beatles and Pachelbel. A highly personal piece of apparel!

(via Noise For Airports)

Update on Friday, November 13, 2009 at 14:12 by admin

A nice video of the production of the Sonic Fabric is available on YouTube.

Comments

[Loddy]

That has to be the single most AWESOMELY INSANE thing I have seen all year.

[Bob]

Great idea.
I love it.
If there is really music on the tapes(Beatles), she will probably get sued to he&% for copyright infringement, though.

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