The song of a summer morning
It has been a hot summer and we don’t have air conditioning, so we open our windows as wide as possible at night to catch a cool breeze if we can. The first sound I hear early in the morning is the sh-sh-sh of the sprinklers coming to life in
Visible Speech
What must it be like not to be able to hear any sounds, to be deaf? You can still make sounds with your speech apparatus, but you can’t hear yourself. This piece is a homage to Alexander Melville Bell’s phonetic alphabet that he devised in 1867 to help deaf
Cacophony (The Dancing Caterpillar)
Cacophony – defined as a harsh discordant mixture of sounds. Synonyms: din, racket, noise, discord, dissonance, discordance, caterwauling, raucousness, screeching, jarring, stridency, grating, rasping. How do words sound? How do they make you feel? Do we each respond to individual words in the same way? For me
Sounds of Silence (guest artist)
A fiber friend of mine has been following our blog and has made a quilt based on our first prompt about sound. Her quilt is titled Sounds of Silence, and I’ll leave it to you to interpret what may be happening. This quilt is by Marianne Williamson.
Sounds of Norway
Hi, I am Synnøve from Norway, and I am very happy to be part of this fine group of quilters. When I read the first topic: Sound, I thought of the sound waves, and went to my old Physics Book Sound waves from my physics book from 1964.
Making the sound connection
First off—Hi! I’m Terry and I’m so happy to be here, in great company and working on an intriguing challenge. It’s my first post on the blog and I”m getting to know my fellow artists of Cloth in Common! Visualizing sound. So we begin with our first challenge. Hmmm. This
Sounds of rain
When Karol asked “How will you represent sound visually?”, At the moment I thought of rain. Personally, I like sound when it rains. The sound of rain that was falling to soft and light makes me comfortable and stable. And the ripples created by the rain falling on the ground
VISUAL SOUND—Some Notes
How do you see sound? That was my initial response to Karol Kusmaul’s first prompt for our newly formed fiber group Cloth in Common. Her exact prompt was to “make an art piece about sound of some sort”. Each of our senses gives us specific information. Our eyes show
Guest artist!
An observer of our blog decided to play along with us and has completed a small quilt about sound! We are delighted to have others participate in our prompts. The artist’s name is Denise Giardullo, and here is her piece and her artist statement about it: “The prompt,
Making speech visible
When I first read Karol’s prompt, images of sound waves came to mind right away. With a physicist husband and a very musical family this would have been my first choice for visualizing sound. But then I visited the Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site in Baddeck, Nova Scotia, Canada,
Elizabeth's World
Karol concludes her prompt: “Your work could show loud, amplified sound like construction or thunder. Or soft and faint sound, like a whisper. How will you represent sound visually?” Like Lisa, I went with the first thing that came to mind. Although I live in the peaceful countryside, my ears