Miriam Andraus Pappalardo

Music is always in my life, but I am never the one who chooses what to listen to. Not out of passivity, but because I enjoy what comes as a gift from around me. There is a quality in music that has always intrigued and seduced me—its capacity for simultaneity, its spatiality, its diverse and coexisting woven layers: harmony or silence, rhythms or counterpoint, different modes that build complex singularities. For this work, I chose to use an analogical instrument, manually operated—a knitting machine that I was given when I was 15 years old (nowadays out of production). It is usually an unpredictable device, although it is completely algorithmic. Perhaps I am just trying to weave some kind of melodies or songs, maybe symphonies, or simple playful try-outs. Varied notes, some score-pieces that, like music, are composed in the multiplicity of its acts as a whole.

BRACELET CADENZA, Collection: SOMETHING ABOUT MUSIC

Bracelet Nylon thread manually woven on a knitting machine

Photo: Arnaldo Pappalardo