Weaving with the sound of its own making
Ōtepoti, Aotearoa (Dunedin, NZ) 2009
Wool, cotton, audio cable, sound, perspex, cd players, headphones
800cm x 100cm
The work depicts the audiowave of the sound of weaving the piece. The rattling noise of starting the computer aided handloom becomes the first pattern to be woven. While weaving I recorded myself and subsequently wove this soundwave and then recorded myself while I was weaving this soundwave and so on. The work creates itself from its own sound. Difference and repetition, slight variations in speed and the number of lifted shafts determine this sound. Both weaving and sound are time-based media and by treating the loom as a musical instrument that would play the sound that it later weaves I thought a lot about fugues and baroque philosophies of time, Leibnitz’s monadology and Deleuze’s folds.
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