Alyce Santoro makes Sonic Fabric - 50% cotton, 50% recycled audiocassette tape. Already pretty cool, but the best part is that you can play it like an instrument. If you run a tape head along the surface of the fabric, you can hear whatever was pre-recorded into the weave (her special mix includes everything from punk bands to ocean surf to the Beatles to Pachelbel). She originally got the idea from little bits of cassette tape used as wind-indicators on sailboats and from the wind-activated blessings inscribed on Tibetan Buddhist prayer flags.
Yes, I would wear that (velvet) dress.
John Fishman (from Phish) playing Sonic Fabric:
(the newest way to wear sonic fabric: a fedora)
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Stephen Hough says that's more of a trilby than a fedora. I'm just making a point.
ReplyDeleteWhat's with this whole thing with music and clothes lately? :P