Body, Wearable and Touch

The noises and the changes

Connected with 555timer, this convertable wearable sonifies its contact with the skin. Wondering how would I to hear the interaction with my garments, in this experiment I used an oscilator with conductive threads connected to an old project investigating the semiotic of dressing up, called "Articulando". Whenever this piece is ajusted in the body, a sound is outputted and modulated according to the garment in relation to my body.

The 555 timer IC is an integrated circuit (chip) used in a variety of timer, pulse generation, and oscillator applications. The 555 can be used to provide time delays, as an oscillator, and as a flip-flop element. As you can see in the video, the sound will vary according to the pression I am making on the textile or the amount of surface that my hands are touching.

If you are wondering how I've done this piece, I will leave bellow a video which show the conductive threads on the fabric and the hardware that I build before integrate it in the fabric.

In this link you can check a step-by-step documentation, with circuits and other experimentations.

Here you find the fabric