Aural Fabric: an interactive textile sonic map

Abstract

The Aural Fabric is an interactive textile sonic map created to promote engagement in acoustic awareness towards the built environment. It fosters discussions on the aural environment of our cities by allowing users to experience binaural recordings captured during a soundwalk. The touch of the conductive areas embroidered of the surface on the map can be sensed by two capacitive boards stitched on the map. These are externally connected to an embedded computer processing unit, Bela. The recordings can be intuitively mixed together offering exploratory and performative recall of the material collected.