Inspired by people playing with plants and fungi, I wanted to explore a way to generate sounds touching my woven or knitted pieces just using a mobile phone connected to a speaker, no computer needed.
Finally “Inner Textures” is alive and kicking! The board is able to capture micro electrical variations and transforms them into MIDI, CV, gate, and trigger signals for analog or digital synthesizers. Just attach the electrodes or crocodile clips to your woven or felted piece created using a percentage of conductive fibers and the fluctuations of the galvanic conductance will produce MIDI/cv notes.
In the video I’m playing with a Theremini patch on DRC app by Imaginando and then showing the soldering and setup process.
On the 27th and 28th of February I’m in Zagreb hosted by Radiona makerspace to give a workshop on weaving to play with Inner Textures board.
I named the board “Inner Textures” like the installation I’m working on since 2024, comprising three woven pieces created with plant-based and conductive yarns on a jacquard loom. In “Inner Textures,” the sonic dimension generated by the interactive woven piece serves as a powerful medium to engage the viewer on a deeper, more visceral level. Sound has a unique ability to resonate with the inner, often unexplored, parts of human experience, evoking emotions and responses that are not easily accessed through visual stimuli alone.
Interested in collab? Drop me a message: textures (at) zoeromano.eu
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