Sonic Cloth

This is an interactive work that transforms weaving into the writing of sonic memory: touch drives sound, sound generates fabric, and the woven patterns in turn become new performances and memories.

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Abstract

My work uses a loom modified with limit switches as its interface, turning “weaving” into a tactile arrangement of sonic memory. Over the past few years, fragments from my experiences—playing instruments, recording with a DAW, and living closely with sound—are brought into Max9 and, through MuBu, sliced into many tiny grains. The system then places these grains onto a two-dimensional “map” based on their distinct textures: each point is a moment that can be retrieved and reused. By pulling the loom’s threads, the audience activates and reshapes movement and selection across this map, re-“weaving” my sound fragments—scrambling their original timeline, breaking apart and recomposing their adjacency, and letting them meet again in new rhythms, densities, and textures. Each weaving gesture simultaneously generates a live virtual textile on the TV screen and returns immediate auditory feedback: you are writing sound through touch. Meanwhile, if you stay still and watch the existing virtual fabric for a sustained period, the system reads the woven “swatch” vertically, translates its visual texture back into sound, and allows the finished textile to become, in turn, a new performance and a new memory.

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