Weave Waves brings together sound artist Scanner and textile designer Ismini Samanidou seen in the Sound Matters Exhibition at The Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University. Scanner & Ismini are exploring sound, geography and mapping, code, place and scale through textiles and how this data relates to textile-weave structures and musical scores.
The sketchbook of the thinking illustrating the thinking process behind Weave Waves can be seen here
Sound Matters considers the connections between craft practice and sound art. Seven contemporary works have been selected to illustrate ways in which these two distinct practices can collide. Exploring the physicality of sound, the works are characterised by both their sonic properties and materiality. The artists include Max Eastley, Keith Harrison, Cathy Lane, Owl Project, Studio Weave, Dominic Wilcox & Yuri Suzuki
The makers and artists represented in this exhibition demonstrate how an engagement with sound also implicates an engagement with matter. Drawn from across creative disciplines, each work is indicative of a different approach: looking to traditional craft heritage and processes such as weaving and wood turning to create new sound forms, playing with shared technologies and language and revealing the sounds of materials.
With its equal emphasis on sound and form, Sound Matters offers a new and multi-sensory engagement with craft, with each work demanding to be heard as well as seen. With works of varying scale and volume, it is as important to listen as to look to fully experience the show.
