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Textile Piece Being Made

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Soft Sound – Textiles as electroacoustic transducers

Project: Soft Sound
Creator: EJTECT (Esteban de la Torre and Judit Eszter Karpati)

Project “Soft Sound” combines textiles with sound and explore the possibilities of creating multi-sensory experiences. They do this by trying to create textiles as an audio emitting surface. They created soft speakers and embedded it into fabrics in order to emanate sonic vibrations, which could not only be heard but could also be felt due to the pulsating sound.

What I admire about this project is that they are trying to allow people to not only hear sound but to also feel like, just like someone who lost their hearing would experience. This interests me like one of my previous looking outwards about a sensory experience for the blind. I’m really fascinated with technology that try to enhance your experience with someone by allowing you to understand what its like for someone who lost one of their vital senses.

The textiles were laser cut with flat copper and silver coils and then connected to an amplifier to enhance the signal, which ultimately allows the textile to move rapidly back and forth, causing sound waves to emit from the piece of tech.
The creator was trying to design something that could possibly be used as a contemporary interior structure design in the future by going from a small scale to a bigger scale in the future.

Video of how it works