vocal knitting
a few posts back, i mentioned how i like hanging out with alejna because her academic/professional interests are very different than mine. i also offered to knit her a pair of socks in apology for not having let her know i was going to be in boston in a timely fashion. (the offer still stands; i’ve got a great pattern for warm winter socks that do really well in doc marten’s.)
then, another friend shared something on her RSS feed that struck me as the perfect synergy of the proffered apology and alejna’s passion for linguistics: a knitting machine that turns the frequency of the human voice into a binary code and pattern for a knit object. come to think of it, it would be pretty neat for alejna’s main squeeze, too. now to figure out when i can plan a trip to berlin…
January 29th, 2009 at 11:15 am
Oh, wow. That’s pretty nifty. I’ve thought about doing art based on waveforms and spectrograms, but knitting never crossed my mind.
Also, I am not one to turn down socks. I mean, turn down an offer of socks. (Though I guess I don’t really cuff my socks, for that matter.) Though seeing as you did meet me for lunch, and seeing as I did leave you standing out in the cold and slush while I tried to find my way to you, I think the need for an apology has been cancelled out.