fabricmachine from Kathrin Stumreich on Vimeo.
The Fabricmachine is an interactive sound installation by Kathrin Stumreich. Like a record player, sound is produced when the sensors come into contact with the running lengths of fabric. Stumreich explains how it works: "At certain points there are light sensors installed to receive signals from the opacity of the textile, which get translated into audio signals." The produced sound is influenced by a few factors:
- The tone pitch is created by the quality of the fabric, weaving technique, basically this is the amount of threads interrupting the light per second.
- Breaks and rhythm are due to the seam, and the length of each sort of fabric.
- The arrangement of the fabrics in aspects of length, quality and the connecting seams are additive parameters for composing a rhythm or a flowing change of the tone pitch.
