SoundWear.

Soundwear is an original software, design tool and interactive installation that employs sound or music as an input into a fashion design story and process. 

Based around a perception of synaesthesia, a selection of music compositions for single instrument, such as cello, piano, or electronics have been illustrated and realised in colour, line, layering and shape. These illustrations are then subject to computer programming allowing them to run as a series of evolving designs as the music or sound plays. 

Either via the project website or an installation interface, an audience/user will be able to select and harness sections for projection which function as a blend of musical score and fashion sketch. The projected compositions are used to suggest garment form, colour and pattern.

The project aimed to communicate a different way of creating fashion other than established or traditional methods, and questioned how innovation obtained ‘elsewhere’ can be applied to the conception and display of clothes.

SoundForms & SoundWear was been shown as part of –

Shifting Paradigms of Identity: Creative Technology. Kent State University Museum, USA. 2014. 

Couture Graphique. MUDAC, Paris. 2014 & MOTI Museum, Breda, Netherlands. 2013. 

Mechanical Couture: Fashioning a New Order.
Design Museum, Holon. 2010.