Thomas Bayrle

"I put my ear to the engine block and actually heard the delicate, little voices of women singing somewhere deep in the transmission."-Thomas Bayrle. Recorded in a textile weaving factory in Schwalmstadt Trutzhain, Germany, WARP WEFT is a collaborative sound work by Frankfurt-based artists Thomas Bayrle and Bernhard Schreiner. The LP consists of three audio pieces, each made using multiple in-sync microphones that were focused on a specific historical machine; a Dornier rapier loom from the 1980…