{"id":9282,"date":"2006-10-29T23:50:55","date_gmt":"2006-10-29T23:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9282"},"modified":"2006-10-29T23:50:55","modified_gmt":"2006-10-29T23:50:55","slug":"fabric-made-from-magnetic-tape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9282","title":{"rendered":"Fabric Made from Magnetic Tape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/sonicFabric2.gif\">Street Tech&#8217;s Court Lensman Jay Townsend send us a link to this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonicfabric.com\/index.html\" target=\"new\">fascinating project<\/a> by an artist named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alycesantoro.com\/index.html\" target=\"new\">Alyce Santoro<\/a>. For her &#8220;Sonic Fabric,&#8221; she weaves 50% prerecorded cassette tape and 50% cotton together to create a fabric that can be made into clothing, handbags, flags\/banners. You can then play the (literally) recorded material by running a tape head over the surface of the fabric. With all the talk of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spime\" target=\"new\">SPIME<\/a> and cradle-to-cradle object tracking, this is a cool and unique way of decoding the history of a recycled material&#8217;s previous incarnation(s). (&#8220;Hey, I found out today that the armpit of my jacket was once a best-selling Country Western song.&#8221;) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\/submit\" target=\"new\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/img\/badges\/91x17-digg-button-alt.gif\" width=\"91\" height=\"17\" alt=\"Digg!\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Street Tech&#8217;s Court Lensman Jay Townsend send us a link to this fascinating project by an artist named Alyce Santoro. For her &#8220;Sonic Fabric,&#8221; she weaves 50% prerecorded cassette tape and 50% cotton together to create a fabric that can be made into clothing, handbags, flags\/banners. You can then play the (literally) recorded material by &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9282\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fabric Made from Magnetic Tape&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}