Entries in fashion (3)
Soundw(e)ave
Soundw(e)ave (2004) shows a spectrogram of an audio file, woven into a beautiful piece of Jacquard cotton. Soundw(e)ave was created by Christy Matson. Visit her website to have a look at her other projects and watch a video of Movements, an interactive sound installation which allows visitors to influence sounds by touching the fabric on the walls.
Also have a look at Alyce Santoro’s Sonic Fabric and Kathrin Stumreich’s Fabric Machine, both combining sound and fabric.
Found on Noise for Airports
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)
A nice video of the production of the Sonic Fabric is available on YouTube.