(Martha, Xin Hui, Tara)

Our artistic motivation for the piece is to create a playful and interactive space for people to embody their voice through fabric. Something we drew inspiration from is a Golan Levin piece which created a visual abstraction of a noise you make into a microphone:

What we liked about this piece is partially that it gives people a space to make sounds they wouldn’t normally think to make (or feel comfortable making). Our piece, ideally, would do the same.

The lightness of the fabric allows the project to be at an architectural scale, which then wants to be something interactive and immersive. We are interested in the ethereal quality of moving fabric, as well as its potential to transform between different forms and different geometries. A field of contours and ripples would be creating as the fabric is stretched by moving control points and blown by fans, controlled by motors and sound sensors/microphone — the speed of the movement could vary with the frequency, while the force could vary with amplitude.

Possible types of movement include:
-swirling/rotating
-bouncing
-expanding/contracting
-rippling
-curtain-like folds (see: Ann Hamilton)