Signal9 Sep 2009
Sonic Fabric made of recycled cassette tapes

Internationally-exhibiting conceptual artist Alyce Santoro has come up with a way to transform the jumbly mess of tape that resides in old cassette tapes into beautiful and durable fabric. Called Sonic Fabric, her invention has been spun into shimmery dresses, sparkly umbrellas and sleek ties. It also emits a garbled, underwater-like sound when you run a tape head over it,

Sonic Fabric made of recycled cassette tapes