I believe that textiles reach out to the senses and in doing so evoke emotions and call upon memories, through touch, sight and even smell. Designer Berit Greinke has a fascination however with textiles and sound, and while in most cases we observe only the visual and tactile nature of a fabric, Greinke explores the way we cross from one sense to another by introducing the element of sound.
“As textiles are used in order to absorb sound in architecture. Can it work the other way round and textiles become amplifiers for sounds?”
Part of Greinke’s thesis of amplifying sound included research into the Music Textile created by Maurin Donneaud and Vincent Roudaut, which I found very interesting. It involves two fabrics, both with conductive threads woven through in opposite directions. The two fabrics are fixed to a frame and when a person touches it any single point, the two fabrics connect and a current is sent to a computer which converts to sound. This concept opens up possibilities relating to textiles and communication or could be used as a performance piece. If the musical fabric were to be made into clothing, a performer could create sounds through movement. It also could be developed for use with deaf and blind people to help them communicate.
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