Thanks to Make, I learned about this really cool project that Teresa Lamb made for her master’s thesis called Cyberknitics. She made a leather harness a knitter can wear as they knit, which also connects to the knitter’s arm and uses circuit boards to translate the movement of knitting into sound.
Here’s what that looks (and sounds) like:
This is really cool, and would be interesting as a piece of performance art, or even just knitting for yourself and listening to the sound your knitting makes. Or how about outfitting a knit night full of knitters for a knitting symphony? How cool would that be?
Here’s what she says about the project:
Cyberknitics is the study of the relationship between craft, technology, and humans. Crafting is calming, healing, communal, expressive and empowering. It fills a basic human desire that transcends its utility. My work explores what it means to be a crafter now, and what it will mean in the future.
This is really fascinating to me and I’d love to try it out myself. What about you? What do you think your knitting sounds like?
[Photo via Teresa Lamb.]
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Will the sound patterns change with different movements, such as purling, yarn over, double decreases, cabling, and psso, for example?
I’m not sure. I think it’s the same sound but it varies depending on how fast the arm moves?