Diapason

Diapason : noun
1. an organ stop sounding a main register of flue pipes, typically of eight-foot pitch.
2. a grand swelling burst of harmony.

Performance artist, Alex Rigg lead the Diapason project. The starting point for designing costumes were poems that Alex had written. Vibration and sound were a recurring theme in the poem I chose. Within it, there were lines that drew me towards images of beating hearts, shaking, reverberation and waves of sound. I echoed these themes in my textiles and created a tasselled cloak that shimmered and shook; creating my visual representation of sound: