Sonic Fabric
feature, textile — By Blaine Brownell on April 5, 2009 at 11:26 amArtist Alyce Santoro invented Sonic Fabric after being inspired by Tibetan prayer flags inscribed with wind-activated blessings as well as by the use of small strands of cassette tape as wind indicators, or “tell tails,” on sailboats. Sonic Fabric is constructed from 49 percent recycled audio tape that carries specially prerecorded audio information.
Sonic Fabric is produced by Designtex in partnership with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Future possible applications include fabric that will “speak” its ingredients and recycling instructions in the absence of a printed label.
Contact: DesignTex, New York, NY.
Find more information in Transmaterial 2.
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