We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

The Urge to Create is Also a Destructive Urge

by THRUMS

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.
    Purchasable with gift card

      name your price

     

about

recorded with material used for a performance/workshop at the Cultivate festival 2022

sonification of the process of weaving done in Max/MSP/Jitter

THRUMS is an a/v project - video at
youtu.be/PBwSsr1a5qs

Field recordings by W. Mercier

about the textile:

The warp wool is local Shropshire wool picked up by bike. It was skirted, scoured and carded in house, by hand. It was dyed with acid dye and drum carded on a Brother drum carder. The yarn is spun long-draw in a semi-worsted style with Z-twist on a Canadian Production spinning wheel built in the 1880s by Fred Bordua of Saint Hyacinthe Quebec. It is plied S-twist on an Ashford Traveller wheel.

The overall yarn is a sport weight yarn, approximately 12 wpi (wraps per inch). It is set at 8 epi (ends per inch) on a Woodhouse table loom. The loom is 8 shaft, but the weaving pattern is a 4- shaft Bronson Spot pattern from xx book.

The weft is the same Shropshire, combined with about 10% local alpaca, also picked up by bike. It is a blend of approximately 5 colours- orange, charcoal, green and two colours of blue, plus the alpaca, which is black. It is spun long-draw in a woolen style, to maximize the loft of the yarn. It is also Z-spun and S-plied.

The weft is set in a balanced weave at 8 ppi (picks per inch).

credits

released July 9, 2022
Alyssa Semczyszyn : warp and weft

Wayne Mercier: bits and bytes

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

THRUMS

THRUMS is a haptic throb engine.


---


Alyssa Semczyszyn works with flexible forms in the realm of the tactile.

Wayne Mercier knows that the void won't howl into itself.
... more

contact / help

Contact THRUMS

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

If you like THRUMS, you may also like: