It is made from pre-recorded, recycled cassette tape. No, am not talking about any new recycled gadget. It’s a new apparel created by sound and visual artist Alyce Santoro. Named Sonic Fabric, the cloth, combined with other fibers, is made from pre-recorded, recycled cassette tape. She came up with the innovative idea in 2001 as a conceptual art project. Combining the idea of wind-activated prayers on Tibetan prayer flags with her childhood love of sailing, she used strands of cassette tape to determine the direction of the wind and this new fabric took birth.
Initially, she knitted by hand, a pre-recorded tape into potholder-shaped prototypes. But later, she tried a commercial loom got her eighth-inch wide cassette tape fit onto it perfectly. And that inspired her to begin weaving tape with cotton.
Via: Wired News
