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Tesia Kosmalski

The Echo Coat Series

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i & Alma Weiser: Largo Coat

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The Echo Coat Series is an exploration of the contemporary relationship of sound, women and public spaces. Inspired by the tradition of music, modernistic movements within sound, and the current ubiquity of individualized soundtracks, this series of historically aesthetic, technological, sound-driven garments creates a female-centered narrative of embodied wandering. The current environments of retail, architecture, and transit are transformed by deflections of consumerist language, real time echoes of boot heels, and the rapture of durative tones, impacting the nature of public sonic space in new ways.

In The Echo Coat Series, three coats are offered and designed in modernistic styles. They celebrate the point in history that sound began to open up conceptually and noise was incorporated into the classical music tradition. The coats are entitled Andante Coat, Staccato Coat and Largo Coat. Each coat has a character associated with them that have been further developed in a video work accompanying their display. The technology includes using RJDJ[1], a platform for reactive music for the iPod and iPhone[2], using re-configurable Ã¢ï¿½ï¿½scenesÃ¢ï¿½ï¿½ to create real-time sounds. Speakers embedded on the outside of the coats project the sounds to claim sonic space, celebrating [2] sound embodiment through the body carrier. The names are based in the classical tradition of music; Andante and Largo connoting tempo in beats per minute (Andante: at walking pace, 76 to 108 bpm; Largo: the slowest tempo, 40 to 60 bpm), and Staccato describing a stiff attack of a note. The coats cel

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