The Real
Denim
Soundscape
Isko
Roles
Art Direction / Sound Design
Soundtrack / Video Direction
Sound Strategy
Denim Soundscape, is a soundtrack completely made by denim sounds. Guided by her “crazy” tools, Chiara revealed the distinct character of the different fabrics by touching, caressing, scratching, and tearing the fabrics. Once the sounds were extracted, the Artist composed the unique voices into an intense and beautiful soundscape.
A careful research of sound design that brings denim into a musical
The
Con
cept
The Idea
For the first time ever sound textures have been extracted and played from denim by the Sound Designer who interpreted 10 of the different ISKO denim technologies using unconventional microphones and audio techniques
The Process
Chiara Luzzana listened to the hidden voice of ten different denim fabrics (with different characteristics) through contact microphones, stethoscope microphones, hand-made temperature microphones (to capture the sound of evaporating water drops), shotgun microphones, binaural microphones, sphere microphones, to emphasize and sample the essence of the fabric.
Behind the scenes
Performance onBoard
ART
INSTALL–
ATION
During Milan Design Week 2019 in collaboration with Wallpaper magazine, a multisensory art installation was developed to present the sound of denim through particular sculptures.Each of these, when touched, emits a specific acoustic pattern. The Artistic installation was also presented in Osaka, Japan.
Sound–
track
The Artist, composed the soundtrack using all the pure sound samples extracted from denim. Sound samples from different denim technologies show their specific characteristics: the sound can be rough, fluid, round, soft, warm or enveloping.
Sound
A thread of wool played with a violin bow and processed through a modular synthesizer, or a cutter that scratches the fabric to get to the essence of sound. A denim played with a plectrum is turned into a Kick Drum which recalls the electronic drums of the 80s.
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