Soundstitching: Sites and Sounds of Willa Cather's World
Soundstitching: Sites and Sounds of Willa Cather's World
In this exhibition, artist Cassia Kite's distinctive Soundstitching process allows visitors to experience Willa Cather's world in a whole new way. Soundstitching: Sites and Sounds of Willa Cather's World transforms the colors from hand-stitched images of locations from Cather's life into playable musical compositions, creating a multidisciplinary and multisensory experience.
The Soundstitching process starts with a hand-stitched image, which Kite converts to a "color map," which is then translated into a color scale on the piano, assigning each color to a key. Following the order of the color maps, Kite then uses the piano color scale to assign musical notes and create a musical composition. Kite's musical collaborators are then able to arrange the notes into a composition.
