christy matson

Digital Synesthesia, an interactive sound installation by Christy Matson.

From her project statement:

"Digital Synesthesia is a synthesis of the organic, the mechanical and the technological. These elements coalesce through the systematic use of feedback loops which begin with recording the sound of myself weaving. An algorithm then samples and interprets these sound recordings as either "true" or "false" based on the frequency of the sound at any given moment. The true/false reading is then fed into a sound matrix, in which each pixel is translated into a thread passing either above or below another thread. An abstract structural pattern eventually emerges from the looped sound file, which brings the original function of the Jacquard loom back into the picture: to produce repeated pictorial or figurative imagery."

more great work on her website here