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SEMIOTICS OF SOUND

Kennard Bahar

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Hi! I'm Kennard! Independently seeking new and experimental ways to challenge the fundamentals of textiles, I mostly take inspiration from self-exploration and architectural influences. This includes defining textiles in new ways by incorporating unconventional materials such as cement, sculpture and most recently, coding. 

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This project explores the idea of visualising everyday repetitive noises through weaving and coding. How can we translate intangible and abstract sounds into physical forms through weaving? Hand-woven pieces are produced alongside an interactive app to create unique weaving patterns from sound inputs.

The inspiration of this project is drawn from the mundane and repetitive noises that permeate our domestic spaces - from the morning alarm to the rhythmic hum of the washing machine through to brushing our teeth before bed. By personally recording and processing my own everyday noises, a visual imagery and jacquard weaving patterns are produced through coding to create physical designs in the form of weaving.

This project also encourages ordinary people without previous knowledge of weaving or access to a loom to create weaving patterns solely from sound. This is in the hope of promoting and raising more awareness to weaving.

Final work

Sound Weave Visualiser App

Over the course of the project, an interactive sound weave visualiser was developed, allowing ordinary people to engage in weave design. The app encourages users to choose their preferred weaving patterns, such as twills or sateens, and record their own noises to generate a weaving pattern instantly.

Two acoustic jacquard fabric hung on a wall with monochorome and red diagonal stripes

Acoustic Panels

A series of acoustic jacquard fabric woven on a TC2 machine. These three-dimensional woven panels are hung on the wall to insulate noises for interior spaces.

  • Weaving pattern made with the sound weave app using the sound of weaving on my own Dobby loom as input and finished woven sample.
  • Weaving pattern made with the sound weave app using the sound of weaving on my own Dobby loom as input and finished woven sample.
  • Weaving pattern made with the sound weave app using the sound of weaving on my own Dobby loom as input and finished woven sample.
a picture of two samples laid against a wall and another picture with a collection of woven jacquard sample laid out on the floor

Research and process

  • Spectrogram results from everyday sound library, four books as main inspiration, and paper pleating design development
  • Books that inspires the project
  • Black and white paper pleat development with 3D effects
  • three images including a jacquard development, steaming an acoustic jacquard sample and shrink sample on the jacquard machine

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SEMIOTICS OF SOUND

This project explores the idea of visualising everyday repetitive noises through weaving and coding. How can we translate intangible and abstract sounds into physical forms through weaving? Hand-woven pieces are produced alongside an interactive app to create unique weaving pa...

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