Sonic Fabric Voidness Dress, 2007. Photo by Erik Gould, courtesy Rhode Island School of Design Museum.
Scroll-Scores"Much of my work consists of experiments into the intangible… the intuitive, the imaginary, the empathic," says sound and conceptual artist Alyce Santoro. For over 12 years, she has been working with Sonic Fabric, a textile made of 50% repurposed cassette tape and 50% polyester thread. The surface retains its magnetic—and thus, audible—properties. When a tape head is dragged across, the fabric emits muddled, overlapping sounds—the intangible fragments of original recordings.
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