Sonic drapery as a folding metaphor for a wearable visualization and sonification display

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ID12700247
AuthorsKirsty Beilharz (0000-0002-3109-7795, The University of Sydney, corresponding author), Andrew Vande Moere (0000-0002-0085-4941, The University of Sydney)
Year2008
Volume7
Issue3
Pages271-290
Publication date2008-07-22
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueVisual Communication (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1470-3572 • E-ISSN: 1741-3214
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1470357208092320
OpenAlexW2109313692
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited1

This article examines two different multimodal interpretations of a folding metaphor, with folding understood as a richly interpretable communication medium. The authors look at the mythological origins of giving voice to fabrics and the tradition in drapery and arts of creating folds to signify embedded meanings. Their projects explore the intertextuality and intermodality of drapery (found originally in painting) as the context for sonic drapery or audification of material in motion and electronic music created from sounds of cloth, friction and permutations of textile sounds. This notion of folding representation is then transported into a contemporary pervasive computing context, as the second section of the article concerns the design and development of a novel wearable visualization and sonification display device. This display is able to sense and externalize environmental data about the wearer using a deliberately subtle and ambiguous representation metaphor

Aesthetics · Art · Context (archaeology · Folding (DSP implementation · Human–computer interaction · Linguistics · Metaphor · Painting · Representation (politics · Sonification · Visual arts · Wearable computer · Architecture and Computational Design · Computer Science · Engineering · History · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Interactive and Immersive Displays · Philosophy

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